Yesterday we had a seminar from Sara on character and short story design. The seminar went over some important steps when creating characters and following creating specifically short stories. A lot of the information on character design we did cover last year however it was good to recap the information. I had not however looked at the theory on core shapes in character design. The basic principal of it was that 3 shapes; circle, square and triangle form the basis of all drawings. Each shape can create a predetermined character traits (e.g: square features can indicate strength and masculinity). I'd thought about this but had never actually applied it to my designs and will definitely to so for this project.
The most interesting part of the seminar was where we analysed shorts with a list of traits successful shorts should include. Short have to be written differently and use different devises to feature films as they can't play on the same character development. It was clear that all the most successful/entertaining shorts all adhered to most of these points. They always had/used/were: Character driven, Flawed character/s, urgent goal, interaction between other characters or props and twist in characters reaction.
Since I will be only creating shorts in next years coming I will take serious note of these points as they clearly work in making a short successful.
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