Experimental Techniques for Picturebooks
Storyboard 1
A course by Catarina Sobral , Author, Illustrator, and Director
About the video: Storyboard 1
Overview
“While sketching a storyboard we can solve many problems of rhythm and narrative flow, and even find visual ideas either to complement, resume or end our story. ”
In this video lesson Catarina Sobral addresses the topic: Storyboard 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Experimental Techniques for Picturebooks. Tell an original story using tempo, tension, and plot to create a wordless visual narrative from scratch.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, we are going to start working in our final project. and develop the storyboard of our wordless narrative. So due to printing constraints, every book, has an amount of pages that is multiple of four. And we are going to do a book with 16 pages. plus cover, back cover, end papers, and title page. which sum a total of 24. we have more space to play with rhythm, with changes of layout, of montage, then we had in the previous class. But we still need to think that without the support of the text, images will have to carry the entire weight of the narrative. You can use the same s...”
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Course summary for: Experimental Techniques for Picturebooks
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Children's Illustration, Drawing, Editorial Design, Narrative, Picturebook, Storyboard, Traditional illustration
Catarina Sobral
A course by Catarina Sobral
Catarina Sobral is a Portuguese illustrator, author, and director of animated films. Before launching her career as a freelance illustrator, she studied graphic design and illustration, developing a unique style blending her eye-catching illustrations and strong narrative voice.
Catarina’s work can be seen regularly in illustrations for press, album covers, posters, and of course, picturebooks. Her award-winning picturebooks have been published in 16 different languages and exhibited around the world, gaining recognition from the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, the Portuguese National Illustration Award, the Portuguese Authors’ Society, the White Ravens catalog, and 3x3 magazine.
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