FIRST TAKE AT PLOTAGON ANIMATION (Due 11/30 or 12/01)
In this assignment you will make a very short Plotagon animation as a test run for your final project (that final project is Due 12/20 at 11:59 PM).
So, follow the instructions below (which you saw before on HW 8), but this time:
A) use 2 to 4 characters
B) at least 125 words of actual dialogue
C) You will need to both (A) create and post a youtube video and (B) submit to Bb your “annotated script” described below. Be sure that your annotated script has the link to your youtube video at the top.
In this assignment, you will use the software application Plotagon to create the animation. Plotagon works by you providing a script (with staging instructions) to the software; the software then dynamically creates the animation from that script and staging instructions, with characters speaking the lines and doing the actions you specify.
But your script must be tied explicitly to the course readings. Here’s how that tying works. When you submit your video, you must also submit an “annotated script.” The annotated script footnotes every statement made by your characters that gives voice to an aspect of the reading; the footnote itself will be the original text from the relevant reading.
Here’s a simplified example:
Detective McNulty: “But here’s what I don’t get. Why, if the game was humming along nicely and everybody was making money, why did your man Jason take down the dealers in another part of town who weren’t botherin’ you? Why not just leave it alone?”
Leila the footsoldier: “Cause, man, that be the only way Stringer is gonna see you valuable to the organization. Ain’t nobody need muscle if there aren’t problems. Problems mean they gotta pay us, so we saw to it there’d be a few problems so we could, you know, solve them. You feel me?”(1)
- (1) “One of the few ways that a foot soldier could distinguish himself—and advance in the tournament—was by proving his mettle for violence.” (Freakonomics, p. 108)
