Script Writing for Comics: Explore Visual Storytelling
The Anatomy of a Script
A course by Fred Van Lente , Writer
About the video: The Anatomy of a Script
Overview
“I didn’t want to get bogged down in script formatting in the previous unit. It’s much more important to get your words down on paper. That said, I will now recommend a script format that I’ve developed that you might want to go ahead and convert your script into before sending it into the world. Here’s why.”
In this video lesson Fred Van Lente addresses the topic: The Anatomy of a Script, 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 Anatomy of a Script In this lesson, we'll see how to format a comic script. There's no particular way to do it like in screenwriting. I have a way I like to do it. I've been gratified with many people, pros, and writers. Artists and letterers have adopted it. I'll explain to you how my script format works and why I do it that way. On the Domestika page for this course, you'll find a web link to my website where you can download this template in Microsoft Word, Pages, and Scrivener. I'd do it in Google Docs, but they don't let you do specific paragraph formatting, so I can't. The numbe...”
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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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