What is a comic strip A comic strip

What is a comic strip? • A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humour or form a narrative.

• Extreme close-up: Focuses on a single facial feature, such as lips and eyes. • Close-up: May be used to show tension. • Medium shot: Often used, but considered bad practice by many directors, as it often denies setting establishment and is generally less effective than the Close-up. • Long shot – Far away view. • Establishing shot: Mainly used at a new location to give the audience a sense of locality.

• Birds eye view – Looking down on a scene. • Worm tail view – View from ground looking up.

Things to consider: Characters Setting Plot Mood Type: Humorous, fantasy, drama, adventure. . etc • Drawing Style • Colour • Arrangement and size of panels • • •

• In comics, a pencil, often pluralized as "pencils", refers to a stage in the development where the story has been broken down very loosely in a style similar to storyboarding in film development. • The main goal is to ensure the flow of panels across a page, to ensure the story successfully builds suspense and to work out points of view, camera angles and character positions within panels. • This can be referred to as a "plot outline" or a "layout".