The Motivated Camera
Anime Boston 2019
Friday 2:00PM in Hynes Panel C

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Panel Description
Animation can display anything, from any angle, but to what end? We cover the history of anime director as auteur, animating on a budget, and basic visual storytelling. We explore how a motivated camera can drive empathy and create new meaning.
Clips
Part 1 - Why the camera?
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
K-On!
My Hero Acamedia
The End of Evangelion

Part 2 - Why Anime?
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Baby Bottleneck (Daffy Duck)
The Sweatbox (clip 1)
The Sweatbox (clip 2)
Star Driver
Spongebob Squarepants
Azumanga Daioh

Part 3 - Budgetary Constraints
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (Background vs Foreground)
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (Limited Acting)
Dragonball Z
Steven Universe
.hack//Sign
Attack on Titan (horse CG)
Revolutionary Girl Utena
Kill la Kill (limited animation)

Part 4 - Visual Language
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders
Hyouka (fisheye lens)
The Dolly Zoom: More Than A Cheap Trick (excerpt)
Hyouka (dolly zoom)
Neon Genesis Evangelion (pov)
Kill la Kill (pov)
Yurikuma Arashi
Mob Psycho 100

Part 5 - Serving the Narrative
Sound! Euphonium
Terror in Resonance (pov)
Terror in Resonance (following action)
Terror in Resonance (exposition

Part 6 - Dynamic Movement
Attack on Titan (integration)
Kill la Kill (distracting CG)
Land of the Lustrous (following action)
Land of the Lustrous (establishing shot)

Part 7 - Synthesis
Cowboy Bebop
The End of Evangelion (struggle)
The End of Evangelion (triumph)
Sources and Inspiration
Sakuga Panel from Anime Central 2013
Why over sixty years of animation history still remains obscure
No Necks Allowed
The Dolly Zoom: More Than A Cheap Trick
David Fincher - And the Other Way is Wrong

See also: an earlier version of this panel from Youmacon 2018

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