Creative iMedia
This unit is one that I've taught so there are resources for it.
R097 – Characters and comics – The conventions of comics
First an introduction...
A short history of visual storytelling
1 – Page layout Conventions
Keeping to standard conventions is really important when making products like comics. And it'll get you marks too!
This starts from knowing what's on the page and why it's there.
2 – Text conventions
There are conventions about the ways in which we use text in comics as well.
Text is about more than word balloons.
Advanced word balloons – slides from class
Text gallery – examples