- Training Preparatory Entertainment
- Promotion 2018
The two exercises, sequencing and comic strip portrait, were carried out as part of Mr Christophe Huthwohl's courses in the Prépa Entertainment class.
The main objective
This is an introduction to narrative breakdown with a view to storyboarding, the cinematographic breakdown of time and space, which will be covered in the higher cycle in subsequent years.
These courses are supervised workshops with the main focus on framing, the temporality expressed by a sequence of images and the coherence of the message expressed, or even the story.
Description of the work required
1st assignment :
The first, “sequencing”, is entitled: “To each his own story”. The idea is to tell, in a sequence of images, a short story inspired by real life, experienced or observed, based on a mini-scenario proposed by the students.
The work is organised around an initial “pre-cutting” session, which consists of sketching out the initial narrative intentions on paper. The coherence and continuity of the story are analysed, as well as the possibilities for synthesising the intentions. The sequenced story is then finalised by drawing, sometimes using the colour “Les Mongolfiades”.
Students can choose their own style and are encouraged to take pleasure in producing the images.
2nd assignment :
The second assignment, “the comic strip portrait”, consisted of making a portrait of a person (from the students’ direct environment: family, friends or classmates, or from photographic research of a film star or other), studying the characteristics of the subject’s physiognomy, then retranscribing them in a series of close-ups organised like the vignettes in a comic strip.
The organisation of the different points of view on the character should make it possible to identify him or her and give rise to a work of graphic composition.
