Staging

Simply put, this is basically presenting a set and therefore an idea as clearly as possible. This is so that the audience can tell what it going on within the first few seconds, even from a distance. The reason that this is so crucial is because it directs the audience’s attention to focus them on the most relevant action within a scene. Contrast is good for it makes the animation more interesting and adds conflict which brings about change. Staging is possibly one of the easiest of the principles for animators to notice if it goes wrong as the problem is so easy to tell within one of these frames. Yet at the same time it is one of the hardest to correct as to achieve this effect you have to consider the placement of characters, the scene and how the action is to be portrayed.