Staging in animation, film, and theatre shares common goals and overlaps in their aim to direct the audience’s attention with precision.
Composition plays a crucial role in animation, not only serving as the foundation for visual expression but also directly affecting the audience’s understanding of the scene and their emotional experience.
Facial Expressions provide a clear indicator of how someone is feeling. Body Language may also indicate how a character feels towards another character or may reflect the state of their relationship.
Screen direction is very important.A rule of continuity film editing and film grammar is that movement from one edited shot to another must maintain the consistency of screen direction in order to avoid audience confusion. “Camera left” or “frame left” indicates movement towards the left side of the screen, while “camera right” or “frame right” refers to movement towards the right side of the screen.
While larger animation projects require editorial screen direction decisions to bring precision to scene timing and flow, primarily this is determined in pre-production. Screen direction has to be fully pre-determined and is resolved at storyboard and animatic production stages, and is an essential In professional animation production.