Narrative Techniques for Illustrated Stories
Telling stories through composition
A course by Paula Bossio , Designer, Illustrator, Author, and Teacher
About the video: Telling stories through composition
Overview
“Compositional elements have to do with the ways in which you arrange the elements within a format. The format is the limit of the workspace. The organization of these helps you to propose a better reading and to hierarchize the information. These resources have a lot to do with the language used in photography and even cinema. ”
In this video lesson Paula Bossio addresses the topic: Telling stories through composition, which is part of the Domestika online course: Narrative Techniques for Illustrated Stories. Learn the basic resources to narrate and illustrate your own stories.
Partial transcription of the video
“TELLING STORIES THROUGH THE COMPOSITION In this class we'll specifically focus on elements of composition. What does that mean? It's the way in which we organise the visual elements or stains within a format. It will be fundamental because the direction, the size, and composition of these elements seek to tell us something. I'll now show you what these elements are. The first element of composition is size. It won't be the same to have the size suggested on the first page as on the second. Surely in the first it's the wolf who's intimidating. In the second, Little Red Riding Hood has the up...”
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Course summary for: Narrative Techniques for Illustrated Stories
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Category
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Areas
Children's Illustration, Fiction Writing, Narrative, Storyboard, Storytelling, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
Paula Bossio
A course by Paula Bossio
Paula Bossio is a graphic designer, illustrator, and children's book author who is passionate about stories: seeing them, listening to them, reading them... but above all, creating them. She has won national and international awards for her illustrations, including the Nami Award (Korea), the Noma Concours (Japan), and the A la Orilla del Viento and Caniem awards (Mexico), among others.
She has worked as an author and illustrator for publishers such as Penguin Random House, PigeonHole Books, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Alfaguara, GatoMalo, Usborne Books, and more, and has also worked as an illustration teacher in the Graphic Design Faculty of Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Universidad Areandina, and Universidad Santo Tomás in Bogotá.
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