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How Directors Create Storyboards Today

Storyboard Hero

Now, here’s a question: Do movie directors these days still use storyboards? How Directors Created Storyboards Back in the Day Pencil and Paper: The Classic Method In the early days of making movies, directors didn’t have fancy digital tools. The soft sound of a pencil on paper marked the start of cinematic ideas.

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7 ways to make dialog sound natural

Making Change

You might be tempted to write the small talk that starts a conversation, so it sounds realistic. Imagine how a movie would show it. It varies the rhythm, makes people sound more human, and gives them character. I’ve gathered a lot of ideas about scenario design in one spot. . “I’m going for a refill.”

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A Learning Professional’s Guide to Creativity: 10 Methods for Sparking Great Ideas

Maestro

World-renowned graphic designer Paula Scher describes being in a state of play as “having the ability to freely associate and see new possibilities and combinations in old ideas that become new again.” There’s a great concept out there called the ‘mind garden’ that talks about the curation of ideas. Let the idea bake.

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Blended Learning: Not your Mother’s, Grandmother’s, or Possibly Even Older Sibling’s Training

Association eLearning

Remember the days when you looked forward to field trips to the planetarium, hovering over a formaldehyde preserved frog with your lab team, or seeing the movie version of Lord of the Rings on a Friday afternoon? Make no mistake, today blended learning goes beyond merely tagging on a movie or performing a Web Quest on the internet.

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Effective Rapid eLearning from Classroom Learning Content?

Vignettes Learning

I used the movie Karate Kid (1984) as a metaphor for eLearning development. We only need to identify one small idea from the content and interweave it with an event based on the experience. After this, embedding the idea to be learned follows. Image source from [link] In my blog, The Master SME: How to become one? With peers?

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10 Common Mistakes to Avoid in 2D Animation Studio Workflows

fewStones

Think of it like writing a script for a movie. Neglecting Sound Design In animation, sight and sound go hand in hand. Neglecting sound design is like watching a movie with the sound turned off — it leaves your animations feeling incomplete and less immersive. Sound is a powerful storytelling tool.

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Post-mortem meetings: How to review and learn from a finished business project

TalentLMS

It might sound like a pretty grim phrase, post-mortem, but another way to put it would be a debrief. Maybe you have a very analytical mind and you derive pleasure from pulling the movie apart at the seams, much to the chagrin of the people around you. What are the benefits of a post-mortem meeting? Add some whipped cream to it.

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