Script Writing for Comics: Explore Visual Storytelling
Roughing It: The Pages
A course by Fred Van Lente , Writer
About the video: Roughing It: The Pages
Overview
“This lesson is all about taking your story idea and fleshing it out in more and more detail until you have a finished comics script. Here, you will create the skeleton or blueprint for your script, something we in the business refer to as a page-by-page breakdown.”
In this video lesson Fred Van Lente addresses the topic: Roughing It: The Pages, 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
“ Roughing It: The Pages Now, we'll talk about roughing out your comic or outlining it by pages. Remember, writing comics is about managing real estate. You need to have a good idea of how much real estate you have and what you'll do with it. A few notes for my "Foreigners" concept here. I'll take those notes and turn them into a comic. What I need you to do is take a blank piece of paper or a blank word-processing document. We're dealing with eight pages, so put down the numbers... "uno" through "ocho." Then, add down a few words or sentences as to what will happen on each page. If this wa...”
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Course summary for: Script Writing for Comics: Explore Visual Storytelling
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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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