Script Writing for Comics: Explore Visual Storytelling
Roughing It: The Scenes
A course by Fred Van Lente , Writer
About the video: Roughing It: The Scenes
Overview
“Okay, enough prep! Let's finally get down to the real work of writing: scene work. In this lesson, I will contradict everything I’ve said up to this point by advising you to stop thinking visually at this stage. To find out why, click “Play”! ”
In this video lesson Fred Van Lente addresses the topic: Roughing It: The Scenes, 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 Scenes In this lesson, we'll move on to a different roughing-out scene, which is doing dialogue. For many years now, I've written my comics by writing the dialogue first. There are a few reasons for this. The primary reason is that it forces the visuals of the comic to follow the emotional activity of the scene. You only get that by characters expressing themselves mostly through dialogue. Using the page-by-page breakdown we created in the last step as a guide, I open up a word-processing document. I use Scrivener. You can use Apple Pages, Microsoft Word, or Google Docs w...”
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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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