Creation of a Children's Picturebook
The Relationship Among the Actor, the Stage and the Narrator
A course by Claudia Rueda , Author and Illustrator
About the video: The Relationship Among the Actor, the Stage and the Narrator
Overview
“In this lesson I will teach you how to create a scene where an actor moves within a stage, so that the action is legible and clear. I will also show you with examples the very varied possibilities of this relationship for the creation of a visual narrative in a picturebook.”
In this video lesson Claudia Rueda addresses the topic: The Relationship Among the Actor, the Stage and the Narrator, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creation of a Children's Picturebook. Learn how to plan and create your picturebook project from scratch combining narrative and illustration.
Partial transcription of the video
“The Relationship Between Actor, Setting, and Narrator In the last unit, I mentioned Winsor McCay's work, and how he was a huge influence that helped me learn how to work with visual narrative. Let's look at some examples. In this sequence, for example, he uses the simplest, most basic form of visual storytelling. You have a still setting and you move the characters, the actors, within that scene. Picture it like theater, where you have the stage and the actors come and go. You see that in this case, the setting is the brick wall and the window frame. And the character that moves, which is t...”
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Course summary for: Creation of a Children's Picturebook
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Category
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Areas
Children's Illustration, Editorial Design, Narrative, Picturebook, Storyboard, Traditional illustration
Claudia Rueda
A course by Claudia Rueda
Colombian author and illustrator Claudia Rueda is a New York Times best-selling author with over thirty published illustrated books. Her work has been published in the US, Mexico, Spain, and has been translated into more than fifteen languages in Asia and Europe. She was also nominated for major awards such as Hans Cristian Andersen and Astrid Lindgren.
Claudia studied Law and Arts and worked as a political caricaturist in Colombia. She then furthered her studies in children’s book illustration at UC Berkeley. She has a master’s in creative writing from Lesley University and won the Billie M. Levy investigation grant from the Children’s Literature Collection from the North-West. Claudia is also a teacher in the creative writing masters at Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
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