DD 108 — Visual Narrative
This course explores the techniques of visual storytelling through the analysis, critiquing and development of storyboards, graphic novels and comics with the purpose of further understanding the meaning and structure underlying all stories and time-based media. This course explores: Basic Story Structure: (Inciting Incident, Gap Widening Events, Climax, Resolution); The Basic Principles of Story Telling: (Crisis Decision, Risk = Motivation, The Basic Elements of Comedy, Types of Conflict, Story Argument, Status, Set Up and Pay Off, Subtext); How to Tell a Story Visually (Panels, Framing, Composition, Lay Out, Elements of Design).