Narrative Techniques for Illustrated Stories

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

• Level: Beginner
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• 21115 students
• 5 units
• 20 lessons (4h 11m)
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• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Children's Illustration, Fiction Writing, Narrative, Storyboard, Storytelling, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting