Effective Use of Animation in Documentary Film
Speaker: Mickey Duzyj - Director and Animator at https://www.theallnighterroom.com/
Brief of the workshop
Effective use of Animation in Documentary Film is a virtual masterclass workshop that the Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities and US Embassy partnered together to introduce you to the animation world with the guest speaker director and animator Mickey Duzyj. The virtual workshop will cover the important aspects of animation, firstly, Mickey will introduce classic & contemporary examples of animation in nonfiction storytelling, taxonomy of uses: recreations, infographics and abstraction. Secondly, crafting animated moments such as the enormous adaptability of animation as visual language, emotional, communicative of tone and style and also creating a radio cut, drawing placeholders and creating a rough cut with sound design. On the final note Mickey will conclude on visual motifs, sound design and complexity where Mickey will discuss things that don’t have to be super deluxe to be effective.
DAY 1: WHAT’S THE USE? - Introductory to animation
- Classic & Contemporary examples of animation in nonfiction storytelling. Full animation, rotoscoping, hybrid filmmaking, animation over footage.
- Taxonomy of uses: Recreations, Infographics, Abstraction.
- Analogy to literary nonfiction. Fictional devices in a nonfiction context. -Parallel visual universe.
DAY 2: CRAFTING ANIMATED MOMENTS - Making decisions on the role animation will play in your project.
- The enormous adaptability of animation as visual language. Emotional potential, communicative of tone and style.
- Creating a radio cut, drawing placeholders, creating a rough cut with sound design.
DAY 3: ANIMATION INTEGRATION - Ways to make animation feel embedded within your overall film
- Visual motifs.
- Sound design.
- A final note on complexity (where the speaker will argue on things that don’t have to be super deluxe to be effective.)
About the speaker
With work called “genius” by The Guardian and “invigorating” by The New Yorker, Sundance-premiering artist/director Mickey Duzyj is known for his refreshingly offbeat approach to documentaries, all of which feature his distinctive animation. He is the creator/director of the Netflix Original documentary series LOSERS—celebrating hidden victories within the sports world’s most epic failures—earning him multiple Emmy nominations and a place on Variety Magazine’s “Top 10 Documentary Filmmakers to Watch” list.
A longtime champion of underdog sports narratives, Duzyj’s 2016 documentary short The Shining Star of Losers Everywhere (ESPN 30 for 30, Sundance premiere) tells the curiously inspiring story of a Japanese racehorse who becomes a symbol of perseverance during a recession. In the Emmy-nominated short The Perfect 18 (ESPN, 2015), Duzyj tells the story of an IT manager who scores 18 consecutive hole-in-ones in a Putt-Putt golf tournament: a near-impossible feat that left his fellow putters feeling like they had a religious experience.
Duzyj has contributed illustration and animation work to documentaries including You Don’t Know Bo (ESPN 30 for 30, about Bo Jackson) and Ezra Edelman’s Academy Award-winning OJ: Made in America. He also remains one of the most in-demand sports illustrators in the world, with clients including Rolling Stone, Nike, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Vice, Tennis Magazine, and ESPN.
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