About the video: Setting the Story
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you how understanding the underlying themes and important moments in your story will help translate it into comic book script form. ”
In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Setting the Story, which is part of the Domestika online course: Comic Creation Specialization: Master Storytelling and Illustration. Learn comic creation, scriptwriting, visual storytelling, and character illustration for digital and print publication.
Partial transcription of the video
“Romance, tragedy, vengeance, growing up, Hero's Journey. et cetera, et cetera. Some people say there are seven basic stories. Some people say three. Personally, I ascribe to the theory that all stories can be reduced to one. Ultimately, All stories begin with a status quo. A character is embedded in a world. This is our setup. We introduce the protagonist. are who. And the location, the where. Quite often also, same time we will introduce the when. So we have three questions answered in the setup. The who, the where. And the when. If we play our cards right, the reader will establish an emo...”
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Course summary for: Comic Creation Specialization: Master Storytelling and Illustration
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Comic, Creative Writing, Digital Drawing, Drawing, Fiction Writing, Ink Illustration, Narrative, Pencil Drawing, Storyboard, Storytelling, Traditional illustration

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