Narrative Techniques for Illustrated Stories
Experimenting with sequential and functional elements
A course by Paula Bossio , Designer, Illustrator, Author, and Teacher
About the video: Experimenting with sequential and functional elements
Overview
“Let us remember that the elements of sequentiality are those that help us build relationships of coherence between the images that are part of a whole: history. In this lesson, I'm going to use leitmotiv and anticipation to see how they can work.”
In this video lesson Paula Bossio addresses the topic: Experimenting with sequential and functional elements, 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
“EXPERIMENTING WITH SEQUENTIAL AND FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS Up to now we've done eight different tales of the same story. As you've seen, there are nearly infinite options of telling a story in different ways. In this lesson I'll experiment with sequential elements and also functional elements of the image. I'll go over the elements or the importance of sequential elements. In a story of several pages, a book, an image alone doesn’t do much, it does, but not everything. So it needs to be coherent with everything, that's why sequential elements are vital. From the sequential elements we've seen th...”
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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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