Types Of Layouts For Comic Books

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village, my name is Dan Head. And today, we're going to talk about how to self publish your own comic or graphic novel. We're talking about to lay out a comic page. It's important to understand the different types of shots that we have in comics. The shots are essentially the same shots that you see in screen writing or in movies. You have wide shots, medium shots, and close shots. A wide shot is a shot where there is as much detail in the background as we can get, but the detail in the subject of the shot is basically lost. And, an example of that, here in my short story is this. This is a wide shot of graduation day from boot camp. As we can see, we can't see any specific details in the characters, but we can see the background and we can see well where it's set. A medium shot, on the other hand, is one where what's in the frame, the subject of the frame, is roughly equal to what's in the background. So, for example, this is basically a medium shot. Here we can see clearly the details and the characters are roughly the same size and the same importance as the background. And then, in a close shot, that's where the subject of the shot is clearly evident, and there's little to any background. For example, here. This is a close shot. And, again, the purpose of that is to establish how a character's feeling so that we can see their face or something of that nature. "