New Year’s Project – Day 3 Learning goal: Identify cues (signs) that help visual storytellers communicate with their audiences. Distinguish between wide shots and close-ups, and understand how each contributes distinctively to visual storytelling. Understand how the sequence of frames in a storyboard affects the story the frames are conveying. Work collaboratively to translate a written story into a visual one. RATE YOUR UNDERSTANDING OR 4

DO NOW: As you are developing your storyboards, what do you consider? Images: How gestures and facial expressions help the audience understand what is happening. Music/Sound: What type of mood the music seems to set when it starts and stops. Words: What types of things people say and whether what they say helps further the story.

WILLIE WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY Roughly 31 minutes in for roughly 3 minutes - As you are watching the clip, think about how all of these different elements are used to help tell the story. > Stop the clip on the close-up of the front of the golden ticket. Talk about the elements listed on the board, as well as the items you were asked to look and listen for. Ask them for specific examples of each element and how they thought it furthered the story. Here some examples you might use: 1.Images: You might touch on items such as Charlie’s many emotional facial expressions and the shopkeeper’s hand gesture asking for payment. 2. Music/Sound: The use of music when Charlie sees the coin and again when he learns that there is still one golden ticket remaining. 3. Words: The moment when Charlie overhears the crowd saying that there is, after all, a golden ticket yet to be found.

VISUAL CLUES Now that you have identified “visual clues” used by filmmakers to help the audience interpret a movie, I want you to consider communicative tool filmmakers use: “close-up shot” and “wide shot”. It isn’t just what you show, but how you show it, that affects a film’s meaning. Remember - a close- up sounds just like what it is, that the filmmaker shows something close up, and in a wide shot, the filmmaker shows objects from further away.

Example of a scene from WILLIE WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY WILLIE WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY starting on the shot of the double doors as Wonka emerges from the factory to greet the crowd (about 43.5 minutes into the movie and lasts roughly 2.5 minutes). I’ll stop the clip when Wonka reaches the gate and says, “Thank you.”

ID the shot Raise your left hand every time they see a close-up shot Raise your right hand every time they see a wide shot Touch your nose every time you see a two shot Scratch your head every time you see an over the shoulder shot

Exit slip How do the sequence of frames in a storyboard affect the story? Also, how do wide shots and close-ups contribute to visual storytelling?

Revisit the learning goal Learning goal: Identify cues that help visual storytellers communicate with their audiences. Distinguish between wide shots and close-ups, and understand how each contributes distinctively to visual storytelling. Understand how the sequence of frames in a storyboard affects the story the frames are conveying. Work collaboratively to translate a written story into a visual one. RATE YOUR UNDERSTANDING OR 4