Layout and Format
Story Boards and Comic layout.
12/02/15
Story Boards:
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| A simple story board with descriptions |
A story board is part of the development and mapping process before an animation or anything alike can become a finished product. Usually consisting of multiple boxes that will show still frames of something and will show in chronological order how you want something to happen. A Story Board is meant to inform someone how it will be translated into film, while only showing them key parts or scenes. A story board is also where the style and intensity of detail is decided, as well as the medium.
Under each different box, there will be a description of what the box shows. Once the first stage of the story board is complete, it then goes through various stages of development, during which and boxes are changed, more description or frames added, and the whole thing fine-tuned before any more work can start.
Under each different box, there will be a description of what the box shows. Once the first stage of the story board is complete, it then goes through various stages of development, during which and boxes are changed, more description or frames added, and the whole thing fine-tuned before any more work can start.
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| A story board for Harry Potter |
A comic is set up in a very similar way to a story board, however, which a story board is the development and mapping process, a comic is the finished product, and is a lot more fluent.
The layout of a comic is very important in determining the fluency of the story.
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| A coloured story board for Star Wars |
System of 3rds:
The System of 3rds is where a page is divided into 3 even panels
Panel Gutters:
This is the space that separates panels in a comic
Differentiated Gutter Sizes:
This creates more panels, differentiating in size
Panel Staggering:
This creates bigger spaces and rivers. Rivers are a guide to viewers in which direction to follow the panels.
The panel sizes within a comic vary depending on the importance of the scene shown within them. Frames around the panels are used to make each separate panel distinguishable from another. colour and shading is also used to fluently guide the viewer through the comic.
The placement of speech bubbles is also very important, once again the size determines the amount text within it. They also have to be small enough so that they do not dominate the rest of the panels contents. Breaks in the speech bubbles can signify a change or break in the characters voice.
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| Proportions |
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| system of 3rds |
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| panel guttering |
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| differentiated panel guttering |
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| panel staggering |
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| river/ direction panels flow in |
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