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Along with lines, shapes are a major building block of composition and are critical to each storyboard and film frame.

We begin with primitive or basic shapes which even on their own can imply emotions.

For example, triangles can convey action, speed, or tension.

Circles appear friendly and squares seem reliable and stable.

Many of our characters and rules begin as two or three shapes stuck together.

A friendly circle on top of a strong stable square body creates Mr. Incredible.

We can take a circle which is friendly and a triangle

which is active and we have Dash from the Incredibles who is both of those things.

Although we may start with primitive shapes they evolve in a fluid way to look more organic as we add more details.

And with more detail we can convey more information, meaning, or emotion.

This leads to what we call a silhouette, which is a filled-in outline of an object.

Each of our characters would hopefully be immediately identifiable from their silhouette.

Check it out!

Now let's return to the storyboards and concept art from UP and ask our artists what they see.

With UP we thought well Carl and Ellie should play off of each other.

They should almost be opposites in a way, even though they complement, they are opposites.

And we thought, well, Carl would be this square shape here who's basically got these sort of drab, earth-tone colors as a square.

And Ellie would sort of be represented by this circular, lighter shape as well.

And she would be colored magenta.

Again, she kind of looks at life through rose-colored glasses was the thought.

And so we really just wanted to start with these basic shapes for Carl and Ellie.

And so when you try to think of those elements, these end up becoming the characters.

And Carl is still yet represented by a square and Ellie a circle.

You know, shape does a lot for us in this composition from up.

There's some really simple ones to spot right off the bat.

You have kind of a circle or an oval, very primitive.

You have a version of a triangle.

Again, it's got a gesture to it.

It's leaning.

It's dynamic.

It's moving towards Ellie.

triangle here with Ellie, kind of accepting those pieces.

It's almost like they're two pieces of the same sort of thought.

That curved circle is repeated here, which kind of helps emphasize a stacked element in the same direction aiming towards Carl's face.

Behind Carl, we have a huge,

huge rectangle or series of rectangles that are again helping to draw your eyes straight to Carl.

I really like this example from Ratatouille of a character whose shape is really intimidating.

Anton Ego is the food critic who comes and kind of is known to take whole restaurants down.

So the way that he's designed, it's interesting.

He's like a skinny little guy, so thin and so tall, you can just see him dominating over anyone.

And his head is leaning forward like he's coming over you like a vulture.

And there's something very funerary about him.

If you look at even the way that his office is designed, from above it looks like a coffin.

And I just really love that parallel between the character and the set design that he occupies.

So for this scene, it's the beach race scene.

And so the way that I use shape here was to have a really large form

that kind of blocks out exactly where you're supposed to look.

So it feels like you're an outsider, but you also get a feel of how fast the car is

because we're so far back and you'll see him go across screens so quickly.

So you have like this dark shape here that really just pushes you towards McQueen.

Even the blades of grass are all pointing towards where you're supposed to look as well as the flow of the fencing.

We as the audience are the outsider here

because he's not quite understanding emotionally where he should be at yet in the film.

so the camera is also pulled away, and the shapes are boxing him in a little bit.

So he feels boxed in in his mind as well.

In this panel from Cars 3, Shape does a lot for us to strengthen what's happening in Lightning's life.

That's one thing that works well in the Cars world, is this idea that the characters themselves are shapes.

Traditionally, Lightning has rounder images, or rounder aspects to him.

He's friendlier, he's more approachable, he's our hero.

When you get to Jackson Storm, our new character, he's a lot more angular.

But there's a lot more of a sharp dynamic quality to Jackson.

And I think these lines also help him feel faster.

The shapes, the dynamic shapes of where he's going.

Using these sort of primitive triangle ideas, it really gives you a sense of moving forward.

Traditionally, other cars in the Cars world are boxes.

Or variations on boxes.

They're not going anywhere.

They're slow.

but they also help frame the more dynamic characters that we're looking at, the curves of lightning and the strong angles of storm.

As you can tell, shapes can be used in many ways to help tell a story, and it's universal.

The use of shape to convey meaning can apply to everything, a car, a monster, a human, or even an emotion.

In this next exercise, you'll have an opportunity to think more about shape.

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本課的詞彙與口語要點

這節 B1 級別的口語課以影片“Video 2: Shape”為素材。影片中反覆出現的詞有：shape, character, Ellie, Carl, circle。這段影片共有 72 個句子、931 個單詞可供跟讀。講話部分時長為 5:25。說話人語速自然，每分鐘約 172 個詞，接近日常對話。只有 81% 的單詞屬於英語最常用的 3,000 詞，詞彙難度較高。

影片中的重點詞彙

影片中最難的 15 個單詞，附發音和釋義：

單詞	發音	釋義
triangle 名詞	/ˈtɹaɪˌæŋɡəl/	三角, 三角形
primitive 名詞	/ˈpɹɪmɪtɪv/	原始人
convey 動詞	/kənˈveɪ/	傳遞 /傳遞, 輸送 /輸送
emotion 名詞	/ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/	感情, 情感
rectangle 名詞	/ˈrɛktæŋɡl̩/	長方形 /長方形, 矩形
silhouette 名詞	/ˌsɪluˈɛt/	剪影
storyboard 名詞		分鏡圖 /分鏡圖, 分鏡 /分鏡
outsider 名詞	/ˌaʊtˈsaɪdəɹ/	外人, 局外人
lean 動詞	/ˈliːn/	傾斜 /傾斜
curve 名詞	/kɚv/	彎子 /彎子
lightning 名詞	/ˈlaɪt.nɪŋ/	閃電 /閃電, 電光 /電光
approachable 形容詞	/əˈpɹəʊ.t͡ʃə.bəl/	容易接近的
intimidate 動詞	/ɪnˈtɪmɪdeɪt/	威脅 /威脅, 恐嚇 /恐嚇
magenta 名詞	/məˈd͡ʒɛntə/	品紅 /品紅
vulture 名詞	/ˈvʌlt͡ʃɚ/	兀鷹 /兀鷹, 鵰 /雕

影片中出現的短語動詞

單詞	釋義
end up 動詞	到達

影片中的語法

說話人最常用的結構，並附上影片中的原話：

結構	影片中的用法
被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的	be represented · would be colored · is repeated
定語從句 who / which + 從句 — 補充說明人或事物	circle which is · silhouette, which is

需要注意的發音

說話人用了 10 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 they're, you're, we're。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。

“sh” 和 “zh” 音: emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, traditionally /tɹəˈdɪʃ.ə.nə.li/, emotionally /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/, variation /ˌvɛəɹiˈeɪʃn̩/, tension /ˈtɛnʃən/
長單詞——注意重音位置: traditionally /tɹəˈdɪʃ.ə.nə.li/, approachable /əˈpɹəʊ.t͡ʃə.bəl/, funerary /ˈfjunəˌɹɛɹi/, intimidate /ɪnˈtɪmɪdeɪt/, emotionally /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/

中文母語者容易讀錯的音：

/v/ — 不要讀成 /w/，上齒輕觸下唇: primitive /ˈpɹɪmɪtɪv/, convey /kənˈveɪ/, curve /kɚv/, vulture /ˈvʌlt͡ʃɚ/, evolve /ɪˈvɑlv/
詞尾子音 — 要讀清楚，後面不要加母音: primitive /ˈpɹɪmɪtɪv/, dynamic /daɪˈnæm.ɪk/, silhouette /ˌsɪluˈɛt/, curve /kɚv/, intimidate /ɪnˈtɪmɪdeɪt/
/r/ 和 /l/ 的區別: triangle /ˈtɹaɪˌæŋɡəl/, rectangle /ˈrɛktæŋɡl̩/, traditionally /tɹəˈdɪʃ.ə.nə.li/, approachable /əˈpɹəʊ.t͡ʃə.bəl/, circular /ˈsɜɹ.kjə.ləɹ/

如何用這段影片練習

先完整聽一遍影片，不要開口，記下不認識的單詞。
先用 0.75 倍速逐句跟讀，熟練之後再回到正常速度。
錄下自己的聲音並與原聲對比，特別注意 triangle, primitive, convey 這類單詞。

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