eLearning Guild DevLearn 2008 Presentation: The Making of a Blockbuster: Using Cinematic Techniques in eLearning Also download pdf at multistorymedia.com/blockbuster All materials are for educational purposes only.

2. What story does this house tell?

3. A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words by Phillip Sexton Simple exercises to invigorate ideas of what a picture really could say. http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1582974721/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link http://www.amazon.com/Picture-Worth-1000-Words-Image-Driven/dp/1582974721

6. Story?

7. How can we tell better stories?

8. Can you identify a famous “story” in the media recently?

10. Story Basics

12. A story with visuals, motion, sound???

13. Cinematic Theory The “Voice” of the storyteller (instructional designer). Applying media elements: motion, visual, audio, timing/presentation in a particular way to tell the story.

14. Call up a friend…

15. Wheee! Movie Night! I love movie night!

16. Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made. George Burns

17. I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words. Edith Piaf

18. Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery . It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. -Paul Newman eLearning Guild Learning Solutions, Edge and Emotion What eLearning Programs are Missing , Oct. 27, 2008

20. Throw things at them, hurl them off a cliff, or pull them into a dangerous love story, and they know that nothing will happen to them. Use characters to tease and pull them along to their goals. 1. It’s for the audience.

21. Particular uses of visuals, sound, motion, should involve knowing what emotions you want the audience to experience at a particular time. 2. See, hear, motion the emotion. A close-up will fill the screen with emotion, and pulling away to a wide angle shot will dissipate that emotion. A sudden cut from wide to close-up will show a sudden surprise. A strange angle will heighten the dramatic meaning. Give a visual perspective or camera view “through another’s eyes” to involve the audience. Montage, a sequencing technique in which a series of short shots

22. 3. A little less conversation, a little more action Keep it conversational and short! You don’t have to tell everyone everything. Show a smile, disappointment…voice “inflections” in narration…a little sarcasm, humor, can help get the point across… See blog.cathy-moore.com for ideas Writing Ideas: http://blog.cathy-moore.com/?cat=9#SlideFrame_1

23. 4. Twists, Tension, and Timing Have some things happen at once. Visuals move faster on screen to show tension…create pace. Games…

24. Chaotic sounds, unsettling, busy visual motion creates early tension, can’t hear…”something is wrong” feeling.

25. THE BIRDS (See YouTube)

26. POV in courtroom; can’t “see” stranger but others can…seems mysterious, questionable; Close ups, Ingrid’s view after some drinks

27. NOTORIOUS – Opening Scene (YouTube Notorious Scene 1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0wFV6D3-2E

28. The next day POV: Close up with drink; cut to strange angles sense dizziness

29. NOTORIOUS (YouTube Scene 2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3MJjoQivRM

30. The Cameo Early “Easter Egg” Out of his 52 films, Hitchcock was a cameo in how many? http://www.filmsite.org/hitchcockcameos.html

31. eLearning Cinematic Techniques +

32. eLearning “Episode” Actors, audience follows characters, typically more polished. Characters present information, staged…

36. http://multistorymedia.com/optimalprescribing/00_menu.html Optimal Prescribing

37. eLearning “Documentary” YouTube style, personal, close face shots, personal perspective on a topic—what really happens, “on the ground”