Post by account_disabled on Nov 29, 2023 5:22:19 GMT
Everything comes from writing, but writing itself can be improved by knowing other forms of communication. Comics and cinema are linked, because they are very similar: born more or less in the same period and both with an exclusive use of dialogues and images. Today I wanted to summarize the essence of comics to understand how it can be useful for writing a story. Because comics also tell stories and concentrate all their strength within its limits - the absence of a narrator to explain the events. Story and screenplay: planning a story In the years in which I attended a comics school I tried to write some short screenplays, initially of a self-contained panel, then of 4 and even more.
Two of these screenplays became short stories some time ago, The Candidate and Senso Inverso , a B-series character created for a 4-panel comic miniseries and never materialized in the end. How do you write a comic? You start from an idea, like any story or novel, then you write the subject, that is, a fairly detailed plot. The subject, then, is transformed into a screenplay. For 4 panels Phone Number Data my story was a few lines long, but for a comic series I was planning, which included issues of 60 panels, the story I wrote for the first issue was 15,000 characters. Now that subject will become a novel, when obviously I decide to write it. I really liked the screenplay, even though it is a type of technical writing . Here is an example from that project: Vigg. 1 and 2: single strip. CM. Max and Danny are approaching the inn, on the right, seen from a corner perspective. It's a dilapidated place.
The sign, made of rotten wood and leaning on one side, bears the words "MERMAID" flanked by the figure of a comely mermaid. Outside the room there are barrels, crates and rolled up ropes. Hanging next to the entrance, one on each side, are 2 life jackets. Vigg. 3 and 4 on a single strip. Vig. 3: On the right, in PP, a sailor sitting smoking. In the background, on the left, the 2 boys in FI, who have just entered. The environment is full of smoke. Max: “Let's look for a free table!” Acronyms are used for the shots (CM= Medium Shot, PP= Close-up, FI=Full Figure), indications are given on what to draw and how to position the various elements in the cartoon, etc. I used a strict type of script , so I detailed everything, but many limit themselves to just writing which character appears and where.
Two of these screenplays became short stories some time ago, The Candidate and Senso Inverso , a B-series character created for a 4-panel comic miniseries and never materialized in the end. How do you write a comic? You start from an idea, like any story or novel, then you write the subject, that is, a fairly detailed plot. The subject, then, is transformed into a screenplay. For 4 panels Phone Number Data my story was a few lines long, but for a comic series I was planning, which included issues of 60 panels, the story I wrote for the first issue was 15,000 characters. Now that subject will become a novel, when obviously I decide to write it. I really liked the screenplay, even though it is a type of technical writing . Here is an example from that project: Vigg. 1 and 2: single strip. CM. Max and Danny are approaching the inn, on the right, seen from a corner perspective. It's a dilapidated place.
The sign, made of rotten wood and leaning on one side, bears the words "MERMAID" flanked by the figure of a comely mermaid. Outside the room there are barrels, crates and rolled up ropes. Hanging next to the entrance, one on each side, are 2 life jackets. Vigg. 3 and 4 on a single strip. Vig. 3: On the right, in PP, a sailor sitting smoking. In the background, on the left, the 2 boys in FI, who have just entered. The environment is full of smoke. Max: “Let's look for a free table!” Acronyms are used for the shots (CM= Medium Shot, PP= Close-up, FI=Full Figure), indications are given on what to draw and how to position the various elements in the cartoon, etc. I used a strict type of script , so I detailed everything, but many limit themselves to just writing which character appears and where.