Writing With Pictures: Step 4 - Paneling
Step 4: Paneling
Once an author has identified the number and type of images he/she wants to include in a sequential art narrative, he/she must next consider how to lay those images out on the page. Paneling – the process of determining the size, shape, and arrangement of images throughout the narrative – not only controls the sequence in which those images are read, but also influences a reader’s pacing, perception, and point of view. The next video podcast highlights a wide variety of examples of paneling within professional graphic novels.
INSTRUCTIONS: After watching the podcast, consider various approaches to paneling the images of the visual adaptation of your text. On a series of blank pieces of paper, draw the lines of the various panels that will make-up each meta-panel (page). Lightly number those panels so that they correspond with your list of images. [Resist the urge to start sketching anything within those panels yet, though!]
Sections
- Writing With Pictures: Creating Comics in the Classroom
- Writing With Pictures: Step 1 - Formulate a Narrative
- Writing With Pictures: Step 2 - Think Visually
- Writing With Pictures: Step 3 - Closure
- Writing With Pictures: Step 4 - Paneling
- Writing With Pictures: Step 5 - Encapsulation
- Writing With Pictures: Step 6 - Lettering
- Writing With Pictures: Step 7 - Abstraction
- Writing With Pictures: Step 8 - Coloring
- Writing With Pictures: Step 9 - Conclusion
- Writing With Pictures: Work Cited + Recommended Resources
