Lecture/Talk Response: Storytelling with Umakanth Thumrugoti - 4/17/19 5:00pm
I attended a talk about the different tools of storytelling by Umakanth Thumrugoti, a storyboard artist from Disney. He talked about how people go about creating a Disney animated film’s story, starting from ideas to storyboard prototypes and constant revision before it’s approved and the animating team starts to animate it. One of the most important things he mentioned that stuck with me is the use of characters. A good story needs good developed characters that people can relate or empathize with. Although this topic may seem unrelated to my project, I decided to take this knowledge from this talk to make sure I created a story within each of my flyers whether it was negatively reinforcing or positively reinforcing with the images I chose. I tried to make sure there was a character (human or other live being) aspect that people could relate and empathize with to create an impactful message for onlookers so that these flyers would stand out more from other dull instructional flyers that are often found on dorm floors. In the future if I want to go further in developing these negatively reinforcing or positively reinforcing messages, I could create a short video with a story to influence others to distribute waste properly. In this process, I would take Thumrugoti’s process of creating a storyboard and developing a character within the film to make sure the point of how distribution of waste is important gets delivered correctly to the audience.