Narrative Techniques for Comics with Soul

Overview

“Writing comics is not writing literature. In literature there is no problem in dedicating 100 pages to developing a character or a subplot, but in comics, an eminently visual medium, we cannot elaborate in that way (comics of more than 500 pages would appear). That is why we have to get used to synthesis, to try to reduce concepts to their minimum linguistic expression. We have to bear in mind that readers (or viewers) like to perceive that everything they are reading has a solid internal coherence.”

In this video lesson Cristina Durán & Miguel Á. Giner Bou addresses the topic: Looking for inspiration: the storyline, which is part of the Domestika online course: Narrative Techniques for Comics with Soul. Discover the process of making a comic with social purpose and use it as a tool to start important conversations and give visibility to those who need it.

Partial transcription of the video

“Looking for inspiration: the storyline The first thing we will take into account is that writing comics is not writing literature. If we expand as it expands in literature, we would have comics of about 500 pages. The comic is an art, a way of making visual, with which the visual is above the text. The important thing is that the image always predominates. As Santiago García says in his book "The Graphic Novel", "The comic is read but it is a different experience from that of literature, in the same way as the way we see a comic It has nothing to do with the way we watch a movie. " When I a...”

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Course summary for: Narrative Techniques for Comics with Soul

• Level: Beginner
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• 1350 students
• 5 units
• 17 lessons (2h 58m)
• 4 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Comic, Narrative, Storyboard, Traditional illustration