The main thing I'm constantly trying to remind myself when it comes to music/sound is that it should serve the film. It's simple but it's an important thing to keep remembering that at the end of the day, music is secondary and is serving a function. The way I go about accomplishing this is trying to fully understand and serve the story. I'll watch the film a lot and try to pick up on where the story shifts and what the tone is in a big picture kind of way, before looking at the specifics of each scene. I try to let the story inform every decision I make about the sound and the music. I'm always looking for ways I can reflect the narrative in the tiniest decisions, down to what sounds are used and how they are mixed.
I'm still constantly amazed by how much the sound can alter the picture. You can find clips online where people have taken scenes from movies and changed the music to different moods to see how much it changes things. It's amazing that an aspect that is one of the last steps in the production can totally undermine and ruin a scene, or take a scene that makes no sense on its own and make its meaning apparent.
In genreal, I'm obsessed with sound and the way it effects us in day to day life, which carries over to the way it is employed in film. I love talking and thinking about these things.
Feel free to paraphrase these answers to make them usable for the children!
Hope this helps,
Bradley
below: NEW ITEMS RICHARDS LIBRARY DRAWINGS FROM AGE 4 to age 14
You can animate or clean them up in Adobe Sketch and color them. We need more healthy bees
but you can always make a few sick ones. Ask me about the paintings.
I'm still constantly amazed by how much the sound can alter the picture. You can find clips online where people have taken scenes from movies and changed the music to different moods to see how much it changes things. It's amazing that an aspect that is one of the last steps in the production can totally undermine and ruin a scene, or take a scene that makes no sense on its own and make its meaning apparent.
In genreal, I'm obsessed with sound and the way it effects us in day to day life, which carries over to the way it is employed in film. I love talking and thinking about these things.
Feel free to paraphrase these answers to make them usable for the children!
Hope this helps,
Bradley
below: NEW ITEMS RICHARDS LIBRARY DRAWINGS FROM AGE 4 to age 14
You can animate or clean them up in Adobe Sketch and color them. We need more healthy bees
but you can always make a few sick ones. Ask me about the paintings.
Animations by Assistant Animators for the Kindergarten Bees
if you could all animate one and send it to my email pollyzoom@gmail.com or send it via google drive.
if you could all animate one and send it to my email pollyzoom@gmail.com or send it via google drive.
The photo below go ahead and import drawing and make some alternative animations
of this MAIN CHARACTER ( original by a 6 year old ) for the film
close up of face moving, flying scene....and we will need scenes of it pollinating
of this MAIN CHARACTER ( original by a 6 year old ) for the film
close up of face moving, flying scene....and we will need scenes of it pollinating
Animate a quote using flip a clip fonts no drawings.
I have a huge belief in the importance of bees, not just for their honey, which is a healing and delicious food, but the necessity of bee colonies that are vital to the health of the planet. Trudie Styler
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/trudie_styler
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few. Emily Dickinson
The Keeping of Bees is like the direction of Sunlight Thoreau
“When the flower blossoms, the bee will come.” – Srikumar Rao
“Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.” – Nietzsche
“Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.” – John Keats
“He is not worthy of the honey-comb/That shuns the hives because the bees have stings.” – William Shakespeare
“For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.” – William Shakespeare
“The bee is more honoured than other animals,not because she labors,but because she labours for others.” – St John Chrysostom
once you animate your quote you can also animate your credit for the film using flip a clip and a black
background. Using the black background you can animate your name like this
Assistant Animator Your Name ( You can animate yourself if you want!)
I have a huge belief in the importance of bees, not just for their honey, which is a healing and delicious food, but the necessity of bee colonies that are vital to the health of the planet. Trudie Styler
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/trudie_styler
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few. Emily Dickinson
The Keeping of Bees is like the direction of Sunlight Thoreau
“When the flower blossoms, the bee will come.” – Srikumar Rao
“Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.” – Nietzsche
“Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.” – John Keats
“He is not worthy of the honey-comb/That shuns the hives because the bees have stings.” – William Shakespeare
“For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.” – William Shakespeare
“The bee is more honoured than other animals,not because she labors,but because she labours for others.” – St John Chrysostom
once you animate your quote you can also animate your credit for the film using flip a clip and a black
background. Using the black background you can animate your name like this
Assistant Animator Your Name ( You can animate yourself if you want!)
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The above drawing is PATCH the main character chosen from a drawing by Adelaide grade K chosen by for her drawing because it is perfect for a lead character. Patch = Rusty patch bumble bee. Almost extinct currently ( we could use some different expressions of patch)
ANIMATE SOME PURPLE CONE FLOWERS
IN FLIP A CLIP ANIMATE JUST ONE STALK OF THESE
AND I WILL PLACE THEM IN A FIELD IN THE FILM.
LOOK UP THE RIGHT COLORS ON THE WEB
I WILL BE CUTTING THE BACKGROUND OUT SO DONT INCLUDE ANY BACKGROUND JUST WHITE.
HAVE THE FLOWERS GENTLY BLOW IN THE WIND.
IN FLIP A CLIP ANIMATE JUST ONE STALK OF THESE
AND I WILL PLACE THEM IN A FIELD IN THE FILM.
LOOK UP THE RIGHT COLORS ON THE WEB
I WILL BE CUTTING THE BACKGROUND OUT SO DONT INCLUDE ANY BACKGROUND JUST WHITE.
HAVE THE FLOWERS GENTLY BLOW IN THE WIND.
THE DANDELION ANIMAITON BELOW IS BEING USED IN THE FILM/ BY WILLOW
USE ADOBE SKETCH
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Student contributions to Bee Hold in drawings ( animations we will discuss in each class)
drawings by Willow, River, and Jaylyn for the film BEEHOLD. Make some pollution drawings like EXAMPLE: PLASTIC BOTTLES ASSORTED TRASH, DEAD FISH, OIL SLICK, FLOATING NEWSPAPER WITH THE DATE 2025 ON IT. ( PLASTIC CUP) SEE LOOK BOOK PAGE ON THIS SITE FOR IDEAS |
The portal scene......
Have you made a toxic drawing for the green water scene?
We found out that the red mites don't feed off Bumble Bees only honey bees....
so our main character is a BUMBLE BEE but we will still include them in film but we have to find a way to let people know they are the enemies of the honey bees only. Oceans animation
is excellent below however flip a clip cut and paste made the mites low resolution to use in film.
so our main character is a BUMBLE BEE but we will still include them in film but we have to find a way to let people know they are the enemies of the honey bees only. Oceans animation
is excellent below however flip a clip cut and paste made the mites low resolution to use in film.
Animate one of these CLICK TO SEE IF IT IS MARKED DONE and don't do the DONE ONES
KINDERGARTEN MITES
We need these colored in red and cleaned up in Adobe DRAW use a true red color. After you get your character clean up in adobe draw you can animate the mite with a dark BLACK background making the edges of the frame TIGHT to the MITE. We could use some WHITE MITES TOO
THEY HITCH RIDES ON BUMBLE BEES
We need these colored in red and cleaned up in Adobe DRAW use a true red color. After you get your character clean up in adobe draw you can animate the mite with a dark BLACK background making the edges of the frame TIGHT to the MITE. We could use some WHITE MITES TOO
THEY HITCH RIDES ON BUMBLE BEES
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SICK BEES TO WORK ON SEE EXAMPLE AT BOTTOM
SO IT IS OK TO DO THE SAME DRAWING ON THESE MORE THAN ONE TIME TO MAKE
SICK BEE SCENES FOR SURREAL WORLD IN SCRIPT.
SO IT IS OK TO DO THE SAME DRAWING ON THESE MORE THAN ONE TIME TO MAKE
SICK BEE SCENES FOR SURREAL WORLD IN SCRIPT.
