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- | ====== 2 - Comic Terminology ====== | ||
- | This section breaks down the basic terminology used for comics. | ||
- | ===== 2.1 Meta-terminology ===== | ||
- | * **Series Title:** This is the title of the series | ||
- | * **Issue Title:** This is the title for the issue that appears within the series. | ||
- | * **Letter(s) Page:** This is where the author talks about what is happening in the series. | ||
- | * **Cover Image:** Is important to the comic experience. | ||
- | * **Previews: | ||
- | * **Description: | ||
- | * **Page:** The story of a comic is broken down by pages. | ||
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- | * **Panel:** A panel is a framed image (except when it is a **borderless panel**) that appears in sequence on a page. The action of the story is told through these panels. | ||
- | * **Borderless Panel:** Is used to describe a panel that has no borders. | ||
- | * **Insert Panel:** Used to describe panels that float over a **borderless panel** or **splash page**. | ||
- | * **Splash Page:** A page with one image that takes up the entire page. See **page** and **panel** description for more details. It may have **gutters**, | ||
- | * **Frame:** The frame is the border around the panel. | ||
- | * Sometimes the frame can be an image such as with the following two examples: | ||
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- | //“The entryway to the room makes up the frame of the panel.”// | ||
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- | * **Gutter:** The space between panels. This may be black, white, a pattern, or something else. | ||
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- | ===== 2.2 Graphic terminology ===== | ||
- | * **Bleed:** Bleed is used to describe an image that goes beyond the border of the page, or panel. | ||
- | * **Motion Lines:** The abstract lines that appear by a person or object to indicate movement. | ||
- | * **Impact Explosion/ | ||
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- | //Impact Explosion// | ||
- | * **Graphic Weight:** A term that describes the way some images draw the eye more than others, creating a definite focus using color and shading in various ways including: | ||
- | * The use of light and dark shades; dark-toned images or high-contrast images draw the eye more than light or low-contrast images do | ||
- | * A pattern or repeated series of marks | ||
- | * Colors that are more brilliant or deeper than others on the page | ||
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- | ===== 2.3 Text terminology ===== | ||
- | * **Speech Bubble:** balloon that comes from mouth of character. | ||
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- | ==== 2.3.1 Common Bubbles ==== | ||
- | * **Scream Bubbles** (aka Burst Balloons, Shout Bubbles): These bubbles have a jagged outline, and usually indicate that the character is screaming. When there is a scream balloon, write (for example) ‘’“I ain’t going back! I’ll die first!”, he screams.’’ | ||
- | * **Emphasis bubbles** (aka Double Outline Bubbles): These bubbles have a bold outline, and may be used to enclose a variety of different speech types. Use a descriptor that best describes how the character is speaking. For example: “No.” She says sharply. Or “Rick!” She yells. | ||
- | * **Whisper Bubbles & Whispered Text**: Whispering and muttering may be indicated in a number of ways, including being enclosed in a bubble that uses a dashed outline, or by using text that is smaller than usual. When text is whispered or muttered, simply say so. For example: ‘’”Oh my god…” she whispered.’’ | ||
- | * **Thought Bubble**: These bubbles have a rounded, cloud like outline, and smaller bubbles for the directional tail. When these are used, say, for example, ‘’”Where am I?” he thinks.’’ | ||
- | As mentioned, speech bubbles are rarely described, but there are occasions when the appearance of the bubble is important to the story, or to the visuals of the comic. Here are a few examples; please note that this list is definitely non-exhaustive. Describe the bubble when: | ||
- | * It overlaps the gutter. | ||
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- | //His answer appears in four speech bubbles which form a chain and cross over the gutter into the next panel.// | ||
- | * It points to an Off-frame character | ||
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- | // The tail of a speech bubble leads up and out of frame as the man holding his shoulder says, “Jim…Stop…It’s over.”// | ||
- | * It highlights/ | ||
- | * e.g. If two people are talking, and one speaker’s bubble covers the other person up in some way, this may be a strong visual representation of “talking over someone”. | ||
- | * It is different than a standard bubble. | ||
- | * **Captions**: | ||
- | * Write Caption Says…. etc.. | ||
- | * Describe where caption is, and how it looks. | ||
- | * Caption text floats over bottom right corner of panel. | ||
- | * Caption text appears in a rectangle at upper left corner of panel. | ||