Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted August 23, 2023 Hash Fellow Share Posted August 23, 2023 "Blocking" has a several shades of meaning. In animation when you are blocking, you are getting your character into all the main poses he will strike during a shot, maybe even before you have ascertained the exact times he will arrive at them. In theater and live-to-tape TV, blocking is about setting the locations on the stage the actors (and the camera) will need to be in at various points in a scene. I've never been very creative with blocking in that longer sense. I tend to set the camera up once and then make my characters do their stuff within that rectangle. This video takes a look at the elaborate blocking seen in the BBC studio drama, "I Claudius". The voice-over narration is pretty ghastly but... you get to see Patrick Stewart with a toupee! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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