Becoming a story artist

2024-04-11T00:06:08+00:00January 15th, 2016|Tags: , , , |

yatesart:

Ive been getting an influx of messages from students asking me what they can do to become a story artist. I decided to put together a list of a few basic things to get you started on the journey. There is much more that goes into making a good story artist but these are just some of my personal suggestions to start.

First, I always like to suggest some reading material. Here are  few books that really helped me wrap my head around a few ideas:

  1. Visual Story– Bruce Block
  2. Story– Robert Mckee
  3. The 5C’s of Cinematography– Joseph Mascelli
  4. Save the Cat-Blake Snyder
  5. On Filmmaking– Alexander Mackendrick

Next i’d suggest watching as many movies as possible. Studies from the greats Kubrick, Spielberg, Hitchcock, Coen Brothers, Kurosawa, or whoever else you find yourself drawn to. When I say study, I »

Stories are how we bond

2024-04-11T00:39:00+00:00December 31st, 2015|Tags: , |

kenyatta:

femsplain:

“Telling stories is how we explain the world to one another, and back to ourselves.“

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Even if you haven’t been through something as unsettling as watching your father begin to transition into a rightful female identity, or coming to terms with a parent’s lifelong addiction issues, everyone knows the relief of sharing something long-guarded. It’s impossible to form lasting bonds with other human beings without communicating deep things about yourself to one another — in fact, it’s the primary way we bond. By sharing these experiences on the Internet, those of us who have been through immense trauma or distress have the ability to connect with others all over the world who have been through the same thing. The countless emails, messages, DMs, texts and other technological forms of communication I »

Why I refuse to see ‘American Sniper’

2015-01-22T09:43:33+00:00January 22nd, 2015|Tags: , , |

Why I refuse to see ‘American Sniper’

Hollywood has a way of fictionalizing war, of making it all about “us” and “them.” “Ragheads” was one of the names Kyle gave to the Iraqi people. He said he didn’t give a “flying f**k about the Iraqis.” Kyle dehumanized them. He had to. That’s how the military trains snipers like him. “Every person I killed I strongly believe that they were bad,” Kyle told the BBC.

I have traveled to my father’s battlefield in Vietnam and I have befriended Vietnamese who lost even more than I did during the war. I have learned there is no “us” and “them.” There is only “us.”

Humanity. All of us.

I wish Hollywood would make a war movie that gets that point across.

This »

2014-07-10T17:23:00+00:00July 10th, 2014|Tags: , , |

I think about art a lot only in two contexts. One is narrative. That we’re a species that’s wired to tell stories. We need stories. It’s how we make sense of things. It’s how we learn. When we look at what’s going on in the world and we see the immense level of conflict that seems to always be happening — you can always trace it back to competing narratives. What’s going on in Ukraine right now is that Vladimir Putin has a narrative of himself and his country that he’s so passionate about that he’s willing to make a move like that. This is about a story. His story of himself and him trying to restore his country to the glory he thinks it should have. It’s that elemental.

Steven Soderbergh

2018-03-27T16:30:43+00:00June 27th, 2014|Tags: , , |

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