Narrative Techniques for Comics with Soul
The project bible
A course by Cristina Durán & Miguel Á. Giner Bou , 2019 National Comic Award (Spain)
Joined June 2018
Joined June 2018
About the video: The project bible
Overview
“We have to be clear about what story we are going to tell, because the following months of our lives we are going to be immersed in a job that is going to obsess us and that is going to demand the utmost effort and concentration from us. The first step is to feed our brain with all the possible material that we can find that is related to (or that defends) the same idea as our project. This will help us to focus on the subject and will prevent our story from being, to begin with, a carbon copy of an existing one. To control this process, which is very susceptible to one falling into a well of infinite documentation, it is best to make a bible of the project. ”
In this video lesson Cristina Durán & Miguel Á. Giner Bou addresses the topic: The project bible, 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
“The project bible In this lesson we will see the idea of the project. We will seek that our ideas, that our concepts, that our stories are a little more original. We will work on a series of concepts, such as the project's bible, the conceptual circle where we will work on what the storyline is, and what is the controlling idea, the idea that defends all history. Let's see. We will work what we call the project bible. I start, as always, with a little phrase along the lines of what we will talk about today. "Every story we tell will tell the public: I think life is like that. " This phrase ...”
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Course summary for: Narrative Techniques for Comics with Soul
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Category
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Areas
Comic, Narrative, Storyboard, Traditional illustration
Cristina Durán & Miguel Á. Giner Bou
A course by Cristina Durán & Miguel Á. Giner Bou
Cristina Durán and Miguel Ángel Giner, cofounders of LaGRÚAestudio have spent more than thirty years developing stories with social purpose in their comics. They are the illustrators and authors of comics such as Una posibilidad (Ed. Astiberri) and El día 3 (Ed. Astiberri), made in collaboration with journalist Laura Ballester. They have received several awards, including the 2019 National Comic Award.
Among their clients are several publishing houses such as Andana, Bromera, and Bullent, advertising agencies and media outlets such as El País and Diari Ara, brands such as Amstel, AVACU (Asociación Valenciana de Consumidores y Usuarios), the Polytechnic University of Valencia, foundations such as Cultura en Vena, and public entities such as the City Council of Valencia, the Generalitat Valenciana, and the Ministry of Equality.
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