Script Writing for Comics: Explore Visual Storytelling
Thinking in Pictures
A course by Fred Van Lente , Writer
About the video: Thinking in Pictures
Overview
“Storytelling in comics requires a different kind of literacy than storytelling in words. Images in the form of panels make up the building blocks of your story, and those images take the form of “shots,” or compositions within panels. Here I will teach you basic panel composition, and the most common shots, so you can start thinking about how to build your story. ”
In this video lesson Fred Van Lente addresses the topic: Thinking in Pictures, which is part of the Domestika online course: Script Writing for Comics: Explore Visual Storytelling. Learn to create professional scripts for comic books and graphic novels featuring scene descriptions, characters, and dialogue.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Thinking in Pictures In this lesson, we'll talk about thinking in pictures. You can be a comics writer even if you are not an artist, but you must understand how artists will bring your story to life. Visual storytelling is shifting the importance of objects in space, which sounds abstract, but if you think about it, it's showing the reader what they need to care about. What the reader needs to care about is what the main characters care about because that's how the reader identifies with the characters and follows the story emotionally. The basic component of a comic book, whether it's o...”
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Course summary for: Script Writing for Comics: Explore Visual Storytelling
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Category
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Areas
Comic, Communication, Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, Narrative, Script, Storyboard, Storytelling
Fred Van Lente
A course by Fred Van Lente
Fred Van Lente is a best-selling writer specializing in comic books and graphic novels. He fell in love with the medium as a child, teaching himself to read via comics at four years old and experimenting with drawing his own. He went on to study film at Syracuse University and join the school comics club where he met a group of illustrators and comic book artists. They later moved in together in New York City and set their sights on breaking into the comics industry.
Together, Fred and his university alumni created the crime comic The Silencers which caught the attention of Marvel Comics. He then spent the next decade working for Marvel on comics like The Amazing Spider-Man, Iron Man Legacy, and Wolverine: First Class. Fred also co-wrote The Incredible Hercules and wrote a how-to book for Random House called Make Comics Like the Pros. He has written comics that have been used for movies such as Cowboys & Aliens, and is a published novelist and playwright.
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