13.05.2022 - ? [Week 7 - Week 14]
Janaan Ahmed (0353333)
Illustration & Visual Narrative/ Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media
Task 3 & Final Project: Graphic Novel & Motion Comic
Janaan Ahmed (0353333)
Illustration & Visual Narrative/ Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media
Task 3 & Final Project: Graphic Novel & Motion Comic
Lectures
Week 7
3-Acts Structure
STORYTELLING BASICS
Central Theme
- Basically the main idea/underlying meaning of story.
- Often the storyteller's personal opinion.
- Can have both a major and several minor themes.
- Major Theme: Idea that is intertwined + repeated throughout entire narrative
- Minor Theme: idea that appears more subtly (doesn't necessarily repeat)
Conflict
- Drives story - creates tension, builds suspense (elements that make story interesting)
- No conflict = No compelling story to tell
- Engages audience, keeps them on their toes
Characters
- Each has a different role/ purpose
- Central Characters: vital to story development. Plot revolves around them.
- Protagonist: Main char of the story. Has a clear goal to accomplish/ conflict to overcome. No need to be admirable, just needs to evoke emotional involvement from audience
- Antagonist: Oppose protagonists i.e. they stand between them and their goals. Can be a person/place/thing/situation that represents obstacle to protagonist.
Three-Acts Structure
1. Setup:
- World in which protagonist exists prior to the journey.
- Setup usually ends with conflict being revealed.
2. Rising Tension:
- Series of obstacles to be overcome by protagonist
- Obstacles become consecutively more difficult than the previous ones
3. Conflict:
- Point of highest tension
- Major decisive turning-point for protagonist
Resolution:
- Conclusion of conflict
- Protagonist overcomes/learns to accept/defeated by conflict
- End of journey
Example (3-Acts Structure of Frozen):
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Practical
GRADIENTS, NOISE FILTER & TRANSPARENCY LAYER
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Week 8
INDEPENDENT LEARNING WEEK
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Week 9
Transitions
When making comics, ensure the flow of the visuals
make sense without a script bubble to the
audience. This is aided by the use of appropriate
transitions in panels.
TYPES OF TRANSITIONS (from Scott McLoud)
1. Moment-to-Moment
- Captures happenings within that one scene
- Panels = moments separated by about a blink or two of an eye
- Captures subtleties, for eg. the thoughts of a character within a particular situation, can invoke audience's sympathy
- Overutilization can make comic dull + laborious to read AND draw
2. Action-to-Action
- Similar to moment-to-moment
- For visuals that depict a wide range of movement eg. fight scenes
- Consider using different types of shots
3. Subject-to-Subject
- More intimate
- Unlike the first 2, it showcases interaction between 2-3 characters, with subtle behavioural movements.
- Doesn't really require speech bubbles, can use visual cues instead
4. Scene-to-Scene
- Indicates change of narrative based on location or significant jump in time
5. Aspect-to-Aspect
- Often in beginnings / establishing scenes
- Audience has closer interaction with story
- Viewer 'float' through scene/interactions
- Gives room to imagine
6. Symbolic
- Use of metaphorical visuals to depict narrative
- Deals with the imagined, feelings
- Can also be used to depict contents of a flashback or inner dialog
7. Rolling Transitions
- One page to depict different actions all in one panel.
- No specific panel
- Can also indicate moment-to-moment, action-to-action, and subject-to-subject
CONTINUITY
How is continuity maintained between one panel
and the next?
Is the frames?
Background?
Characters?
Closure?
Instructions
Task 3: Graphic Novel
Plot
ACT 1 - SETUP
(Exposition, Inciting Incident, Plot Point
1)
In a quiet neighbourhood somewhere, there
once lived a girl named Ruth. It's the
beginning of the midterm break, and Ruth has
been binge watching the new season of her
favourite show all week. She sings and
dances along to the characters'
transformation sequence until she hears a
loud knock in her room. It's her mom, who
opens the door, annoyed because of the loud
music. Upon seeing the horrendous mess
Ruth's made of her room, her mom grounds her
and demands that she clean it at which point
Ruth's sister peaks into her room and
snickers at her demise.
ACT 2 - CONFLICT
(Rising Action, Midpoint, Plot Point
2)
Equipped with cleaning supplies
Ruth hopelessly tries to find the
will to clean her room. After
grabbing her old music player Ruth
tries to make the best of it and
gets cleaning. She pretends to be
a magical girl (like the
characters in the show she
watched) with her broom, until
eventually she gets worn out and
decides to take a break until
suddenly she feels a tickle on her
leg. Thinking it to be her cat,
Pickles, Ruth laughs it off and
moves her leg away. The tickling
however continues, but a very
confused Ruth gets up to see that
her cat is nowhere to be
found.
ACT 3- RESOLUTION
(Pre Climax, Climax,
Denouement)
White with fear, Ruth
slowly reaches down to
look under her bed, only
to be attacked by a
giant cockroach! She
grabs her magical staff,
aka the broom, and
desperately swings at
it, but alas, the
cockroach FLIES. All
hope is lost as Ruth is
backed into a corner and
cowers into a ball.
Suddenly, she hears a
loud thud! Her sister
and cat rush in to the
room and together manage
to capture the creature
of evil. They all
rejoice! Ruth's
sister then asks for 10
bucks for her
'extermination services'
and snickers while
walking out of the room.
A packet of rubber
cockroaches is seen
popping out of her
pocket.
ACT 1 - SETUP
(Exposition, Inciting Incident, Plot Point
1)
In a quiet neighbourhood somewhere, there
once lived a girl named Ruth. It's the
beginning of the midterm break, and Ruth has
been binge watching the new season of her
favourite show all week. She sings and
dances along to the characters'
transformation sequence until she hears a
loud knock in her room. It's her mom, who
opens the door, annoyed because of the loud
music. Upon seeing the horrendous mess
Ruth's made of her room, her mom grounds her
and demands that she clean it at which point
Ruth's sister peaks into her room and
snickers at her demise.
ACT 2 - CONFLICT
(Rising Action, Midpoint, Plot Point
2)
Equipped with cleaning supplies
Ruth hopelessly tries to find the
will to clean her room. After
grabbing her old music player Ruth
tries to make the best of it and
gets cleaning. She pretends to be
a magical girl (like the
characters in the show she
watched) with her broom, until
eventually she gets worn out and
decides to take a break until
suddenly she feels a tickle on her
leg. Thinking it to be her cat,
Pickles, Ruth laughs it off and
moves her leg away. The tickling
however continues, but a very
confused Ruth gets up to see that
her cat is nowhere to be
found.
ACT 3- RESOLUTION
(Pre Climax, Climax,
Denouement)
White with fear, Ruth
slowly reaches down to
look under her bed, only
to be attacked by a
giant cockroach! She
grabs her magical staff,
aka the broom, and
desperately swings at
it, but alas, the
cockroach FLIES. All
hope is lost as Ruth is
backed into a corner and
cowers into a ball.
Suddenly, she hears a
loud thud! Her sister
and cat rush in to the
room and together manage
to capture the creature
of evil. They all
rejoice! Ruth's
sister then asks for 10
bucks for her
'extermination services'
and snickers while
walking out of the room.
A packet of rubber
cockroaches is seen
popping out of her
pocket.
Process
Character Design
Storyboarding
I made a rough script/storyboard
plan to try to visualise what goes
on in each scene. Making these
helped me make the panel
sketches.
Panel Sketches
Based on the storyboard, I then
tried to get a feel of the panel
layouts, character poses, and
camera angles. The dialogues
aren't fully fleshed out just yet.
Digitisation Attempt
Final Outcome:
Reflections
EXPERIENCE
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OBSERVATION
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FINDINGS
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References
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