Script Writing for Comics: Explore Visual Storytelling
"The Stitch Up"
A course by Fred Van Lente , Writer
About the video: "The Stitch Up"
Overview
“Up to now, everything has just been practice and rehearsal. Next, it’s time to add scene descriptions to your dialogue and have yourself a finished comic script. ”
In this video lesson Fred Van Lente addresses the topic: "The Stitch Up", 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
“ "The Stitch Up" In this lesson, we'll stitch up our script. I've been calling the final assembly of my scripts "stitch-up" for years, but you are the first people I've told about it. You're welcome and keep it to yourselves. All I'm doing is taking the raw dialogue and adding the panel descriptions. This is where I start adding the shots from The Magic 10 and where I start tweaking and condensing both the dialogue and the page breakdown to serve the story properly. Remember, as you may recall... we see the canister first. Oftentimes, capital letters in scripts are used to denote the most ...”
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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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