Narrative Techniques for Illustrated Stories
The Story and its Components
A course by Paula Bossio , Designer, Illustrator, Author, and Teacher
About the video: The Story and its Components
Overview
“Since we are going to talk about stories, I thought that the most convenient thing was to talk in principle about the particularities of a story. So in this lesson we will see its morphology, that is, the parts of which a story is made, whatever it is and by whatever means it is told. There are mainly 8 elements (theme, idea, conflict, plot, characters, relationship between the characters, dramatic reality and genre), some of them we can take as a source of inspiration to think about creating illustrated stories.”
In this video lesson Paula Bossio addresses the topic: The Story and its Components, 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
“THE ELEMENTS OF A STORY In this unit we'll look at the first narrative resources. When we tell a story in an illustrated book, lots of factors converge: the story, the text, the narrative structure we'll use, the format, and of course, the image. Since what we're going to do is tell stories, I think it's relevant that in this first lesson we discuss the morphology of the story. I'll explain the eight basic elements that any type of story must have. Starting with any of these elements, we can think of ideas, stories, and transform them too. To make it more effective, I'll take one story and ...”
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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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