Introduction
Welcome
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Exercise files and what you should know
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1. Getting Started
Introduction to comic terms
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2. Rules for Writing
Left to right and top to bottom
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3. Adding Placeholders
Using a script to begin laying out your page
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Space for speech
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Roughing in balloon placements
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4. Pausing and Pacing
Effective pauses: When less is more
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When you say nothing at all
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Fast energetic scenes
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Conversations and useful overcrowding
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5. Narration and Caption Boxes
Caption boxes for narration, location, and time
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Inner dialogue
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6. Sound Effects
Examples of good sound effects
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Challenge: Add special effects sounds
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Solution: Add special effects sounds
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Sketching out sounds
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7. Putting It Together: Designing Dialogue on a Comic Page
Setting up an InDesign document
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Formatting text from the script
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Building balloons and boxes
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Dropping text
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Adding tails and finalizing your page
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Conclusion
What’s next?
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Bonus Movie
Creating a comic page: Start to finish
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Ex_Files_Text_Comics.zip
(55.7 MB)