Narrative Techniques for Illustrated Stories
Telling the story through the object
A course by Paula Bossio , Designer, Illustrator, Author, and Teacher
About the video: Telling the story through the object
Overview
“In an illustrated book or publication, the object that contains that story and those illustrations is also very important. You can think about its dimensions, its paper, its way of reading, among other things. Now we are going to see other new resources that can help you find allies to tell your story.”
In this video lesson Paula Bossio addresses the topic: Telling the story through the object, 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 AN OBJECT In this last lesson, we'll talk about the material aspect of the book. What does that mean? That the book has some particular characteristics. Often we don't think that a book can also be a very strong tool to tell something. Like any object it has characteristics, dimensions, colours and this gives us ideas, meanings, symbols, connotations. This can be very important when thinking about our story. We can also think about the smell, the colour and the texture of the paper. We have an increasing number of resources to make our proposals much more interesting...”
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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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