ABSTRACT

Francis Glebas, a top Disney storyboard artist, shows how to reach the ultimate goal of animation and moviemaking by showing how to provide audiences with an emotionally satisfying experience. Directing the Story offers a structural approach to clearly and dramatically presenting visual stories. With Francis' help you'll discover the professional storytelling techniques which have swept away generations of movie goers and kept them coming back for more. You'll also learn to spot potential problems before they cost you time or money and offers creative solutions to solve them.

Best of all, it practices what it preaches, using a graphic novel format to demonstrate the professional visual storytelling techniques you need to know.

part |108 pages

Part One

chapter |17 pages

The Goal

Why Do We Watch?

chapter |26 pages

Common Beginner Problems

chapter |28 pages

The Beginning Basics

chapter |35 pages

How to Draw for Storyboarding

Motion and Emotion

part |230 pages

Part Two

chapter |7 pages

Structural Approach

Tactics to Reach the Goal

chapter |38 pages

What Do Directors Direct?

chapter |34 pages

How to Direct the Eyes

chapter |28 pages

How to Make Images Speak

The Hidden Power of Images

chapter |13 pages

Dramatic Irony

chapter |17 pages

The BIG Picture

Story Structures

chapter |24 pages

Aiming for the Heart

chapter |6 pages

Summary

Recapitulation of All Concepts

chapter |3 pages

Conclusion

Now We Must Say Good-bye