Narrative Techniques for Illustrated Stories
Telling the story through the object
A course by Paula Bossio , Children’s Books Author & Illustrator
Learn the basic resources to narrate and illustrate your own stories
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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
A course by Paula Bossio
Paula Bossio is a graphic designer, illustrator, author of children's books and teacher. She is passionate about stories: seeing them, listening to them, reading them, but above all, creating them. For this reason, in recent years she has devoted herself to the study of the image as a narrative tool.
She has worked as an author and illustrator in publishers such as Penguin Randon House, PigeonHole Books, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Alfaguara, GatoMalo, Usborne Books, among others, and has also worked as an illustration teacher at the Faculty of Graphic Design at the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University, Universidad Areandina and Universidad Santo Tomás in Bogotá (Colombia).
In addition, she has received national and international awards for her illustrations: in Japan (Noma Concours), in India (Katha Chitrakala Award), in Mexico (A la Orilla del Viento and Caniem Award), in Colombia (Ministerio de Cultura y Fundalectura), in Italy (Silent Books), and in Korea (Nami Award).
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- Level: Beginner
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