Illustrated Silent Books: Tell Stories Without Words
Spaces and scenarios
A course by Paula Bossio , Designer, Illustrator, Author, and Teacher
About the video: Spaces and scenarios
Overview
“Space is not only that place where those events of history occur in a visible way, space is also everything imagined. In addition, the scenarios of a story will determine those details of continuity and coherence that will make a visual narrative more credible.”
In this video lesson Paula Bossio addresses the topic: Spaces and scenarios, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrated Silent Books: Tell Stories Without Words. Explore narrative techniques and illustrative possibilities to tell amazing wordless stories in a clear and concise way .
Partial transcription of the video
“Spaces and Scenes The spaces in a story are not only the elements that we can see on the pages but also what we cannot see and instead have to suppose or imagine. In addition, the setting gives the characters a context to inhabit and interact with. So, in this lesson, we will study the use of space in books and different types of scenarios. I'll start with the visual field. I’ll show you. Before talking about the different uses of space and scenarios, I would like to refer to the visual field: the explicit and the implicit. Just as I explained earlier with the framing, the visual field are ...”
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Course summary for: Illustrated Silent Books: Tell Stories Without Words
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Category
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Areas
Children's Illustration, Drawing, Editorial Design, Storyboard, Storytelling, Traditional illustration

Paula Bossio
A course by Paula Bossio
Paula Bossio is a graphic designer, illustrator, and children's book author who is passionate about stories: seeing them, listening to them, reading them... but above all, creating them. She has won national and international awards for her illustrations, including the Nami Award (Korea), the Noma Concours (Japan), and the A la Orilla del Viento and Caniem awards (Mexico), among others.
She has worked as an author and illustrator for publishers such as Penguin Random House, PigeonHole Books, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Alfaguara, GatoMalo, Usborne Books, and more, and has also worked as an illustration teacher in the Graphic Design Faculty of Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Universidad Areandina, and Universidad Santo Tomás in Bogotá.
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