Narrative Techniques for Comics with Soul
The Script Kitchen: The War Against Clichés
A course by Cristina Durán & Miguel Á. Giner Bou , 2019 National Comic Award (Spain)
Joined June 2018
About the video: The Script Kitchen: The War Against Clichés
Overview
“In this lesson we will see how we can fight the war against clichés to prevent our story from falling into clichés. Let's see how.”
In this video lesson Cristina Durán & Miguel Á. Giner Bou addresses the topic: The Script Kitchen: The War Against Clichés, 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 Script Kitchen: The War Against Clichés In this lesson we will see the kitchen of the script, the war against the Quiche. I show you how. Why do I call it the kitchen of the script? Because when one learns to narrate, over the years, just like our mothers or grandmothers based on cooking, they make the best stews, the narrator, the scriptwriter based on working the scripts, find tricks to enrich your scripts a little more, because they are little tricks that make our stories taste better. Our scripts, If we go over any of the tricks that I will explain to you, the stew can go wrong. So ...”
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Course summary for: Narrative Techniques for Comics with Soul
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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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