Script Writing for Comics: Explore Visual Storytelling
Assembling the Team
A course by Fred Van Lente , Writer
About the video: Assembling the Team
Overview
“Unless you are planning on drawing, coloring, and lettering the entire comic you’ve written by yourself, you will need to assemble a team of collaborators to work together to bring your script to life. Here we’ll discuss how to find those folks and how to treat them right once you do. ”
In this video lesson Fred Van Lente addresses the topic: Assembling the Team, 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
“ Assembling the Team We'll talk about your artistic team, who they are, and how to find them. Unless you are writing, drawing, coloring, lettering, and printing your comic yourself, you'll need to find some creative collaborators. Over the years, the job of creating a comic has been broken down into several specific jobs. We've covered the writing thoroughly in this course. We've talked about the penciller a lot in this course. As the name implies, it's the person who pencils or draws the comic. Very few pencillers these days use pencils. They're using tablets or similar forms of computer ...”
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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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