Anime Studio Pro 9 Tutorials
Creating a Blueprint / Writing a Script
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We are now ready to enter the scripting process. Scripting basically elaborates on everything. It's almost like you're writing a novel. You're going to depict the action as clearly as you can. You will talk about the characters, what they're wearing. You'll also depict dialog. So if there's any dialog in your cartoon you will be able to map that out here as well as talk about scenes as far as if there during day or night and other aspects that will make up your entire animation. So for this particular moment we're going to do a very rough draft of a script. And then we'll advance forward to putting that into a proper screenplay format and solidifying your script a bit more. So once again we'll need to open up a piece of software. In this case I will use Microsoft Word once again and I will just go to File and New and just make a blank document and hit Create. So now when it comes to creating a script in a rough capacity like this you're not going to have a lot of formatting rules. That's going to come later on. So to start with we will do the outside shot of the haunted house. So we'll just put haunted house outside shot, hit Enter and then we'll say a creepy haunted house sleeps in the night. Now we'll go haunted house inside shot and here we will depict the tracking shot of what occurs and then we'll have the characters run on screen. So a creaky old hallway is interrupted with footsteps. Look at creaky make sure I spelled that right. And now we can write our hero Gary dressed in casual clothing and you can get more detailed with the clothing if you wish, runs for his life as a big green monster chases him. And we can hit Enter. Courageously and I of course spelled that wrong, wow I'm really not good at spelling today am I? Our hero leaps over furniture in an attempt to escape the deadly beast. The monster continues to gain. With one misstep Gary falls into an old trapdoor. So now we're going to go to the next scene where he is in the trapdoor tunnel. So now we'll just name this new heading haunted house and we will put tunnel as the subheading. And then we'll just put Gary helplessly tumbles through the old stone tunnel. Now we're going to get to the basement. Unable to catch himself Gary lands face first on the cold basement floor. Getting up Gary scrambles to get his bearings. Okay. And then finally the monster busts through the old wooden ceiling or maybe it should be a brick ceiling given he's in a basement but I'll just leave that for right now, leaving Gary to his mercy. I will want to add my dialog in here though. So when this happens with Gary at the mercy of the monster I can put down here, Gary then put in quotation marks "Can we talk about this?" And I don't want to add too much dialog to this animation just enough to give Gary some character. So I believe I'll just leave it at that right now. But this is a basic very, very rough draft of a script. And again it's not in proper screenplay format which I'll be getting to in the next lesson. However, you may want to come in here and just to make sure that you have everything separated you could for instance bold the scene headings if you wish and you can just go up and bold those and make sure that they stand out so that you are aware of what's occurring. And you could also maybe do other things too like with Gary's dialog you could italicize it and stuff. And that's, that's all up to you if you want to do that. Again this is going to change when we put it into proper screenplay format. But this gives you a good way to write a script wherever you really are. Just give you an idea that you basically map out the action, the scenes and the dialog when you write your script.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Anime Studio Pro 9 |
| Author: | Chad Troftgruben |
| SKU: | 34402 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61866-088-6 |
| Release Date: | 2013-01-24 |
| Duration: | 7.5 hrs / 91 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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