Narrative Techniques for Illustrated Stories
Telling stories through sequence
A course by Paula Bossio , Designer, Illustrator, Author, and Teacher
About the video: Telling stories through sequence
Overview
“When it comes to preparing a story with a sequence of images, you should always keep in mind that a single illustration can do a lot, but not everything. The illustration is intertwined in an ecosystem that is going to demand that one keep the secrets of the other, and so on they intertwine to complete the general idea of the whole story. A movie can only be understood until it is seen in its entirety, because you have all the elements of judgment, the same thing happens with the stories told in books. Collect all the elements and then finish your puzzle. ”
In this video lesson Paula Bossio addresses the topic: Telling stories through sequence, 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 A STORY THROUGH THE SEQUENTIAL In this lesson we'll discuss sequential elements. When we see a book we have to understand that the images are not alone, they are linked to one another, a page is related to the next page, but also with the last one. It means that an element that you show on the first page will have a lot of importance at the end. Images hold secrets and they are linked to one another. Like when you watch a film. You need to watch it all to understand what it's about. You gather information and at the end you have judgement value. The same happens in a book. That's wh...”
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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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