I have some knowledge of film making and was able to put this to use. Sketching out a page from each initial storyboards to gain an understanding for how composition is going tot effect the communication of narrative.
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BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
1. High angle shot
- interesting composition; creates good lines and shapes.
- shows too much of whats happening around the central focus
- doesn't leave to the imagination
- works on the bottom panels to show vastness and loneliness but the closeness of characters is lost
- view-point from behind is interesting.cannot see the hands, integral to story-telling techniques
- we are never supposed to see the whole of the beast
- it takes away his mystery (man or monster?)
3. High angle/long shot
- space shows how truly alone they are
- loneliness of existence
- also romantic, just them and chair
- too far away for the narrative to be furthered
4. Close-up/big close up
- shows enough to fuel story
- leaves mystery
- detail is evident with close-up
- hands can be left to tell the story
- book becomes main focus/on the floor discarded
- intimate scene/enclosed panels
5. Tilt shot
- too fussy
- sets the eye of the key aspects of scene
- no focus
RUMPELSTILTSKIN
1. High angle and long-shot
- could work in close-up, less detail, although does imply vastness
- in different comic, with different objectives, this would be an effective way of working
- allows all characters to be seen
2. High angle x long shot
- middle panel works, faces upturned
- too far to show expression
- interesting composition with other characters
- well balanced background
3. High angle mid-shot
- no mystery
- 2nd frame close to original image, face not needed to communicate story
- close up more effective in showing but not giving away too much
4. Tilt shot
- Still messy
- throws off composition throughout
- do not use
5. Close-up
- still most effective, showing expression, hands implicating whats happening 'off screen'
- background hinted too
