Narrative Techniques for Illustrated Stories
Telling stories through the functional. Part 1
A course by Paula Bossio , Designer, Illustrator, Author, and Teacher
About the video: Telling stories through the functional. Part 1
Overview
“The image can have different functions both when it is alone and when it is accompanied by text. It refers to the responsibilities that it has in the story. They can be descriptive or symbolic. ”
In this video lesson Paula Bossio addresses the topic: Telling stories through the functional. Part 1, 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 FUNCTIONAL Now we'll focus on the functional elements. When we talk about a picture book, an illustrated book, even a book of images or a silent book, we have to bear in mind that the image has certain tasks, certain functions. These functions can be both descriptive and symbolic. I'll show you how, depending on the relation between the image and the text, this task or responsibility will change. Join me to look at them. As you know, in an illustrated story there are two codes that come together to communicate and bring meaning. Text and image. To explain the the...”
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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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