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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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- | * **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. | ||
- | ==== 2.3.2 Other Text Effects ==== | ||
- | * **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. | ||
- | * **Floating caption**: This is when a caption is not in any sort of box and appears as floating text over the panel image. This can be described in a similar fashion as mentioned above. | ||
- | * Write floating caption says… | ||
- | * Floating Caption text appears in lower right corner of panel. | ||
- | * **Sound effects**: These are words that appear outside of speech bubbles and captions and are used to represent a sound. | ||
- | * Only describe details of the word if it is part of the visual narration. For example, when the word for the sound overlaps the top of the frame and over the gutter above. | ||
- | * Sometimes a sound will appear within a speech bubble. | ||
- | * “Oof!” Rick grunts sharply. | ||
- | * “Sniff, sniff” He smells something in the air. | ||
- | * Examples of sound effects: | ||
- | * **CLANGG!** | ||
- | * **REEARHUH!** | ||
- | * **BLAM!** | ||