fumetto comic competition research

copied and pasted the Conditions as a recap for future reference 

• Deadline: 4th of January 2016 (date of postmark)
• Application: apply here (user number), print and enclose application
• Format: A4 or A3 (other formats enclose application will be disqualified)
• Form: only comics (stories in picture form), no digital entries
• Number of pages: maximum 4 (only 1 comic-story)
• Labelling: name, address, telephone number, e-mail, user number, date of birth and paging on the back of each page
• Packaging: sturdy envelope, no rolls
• Return postage: For Swiss Nationals only: stamps or money in the value of the stamps needed. For Foreigners: 15 Euro. If the return postage is not enclosed or not sufficient the works will not be sent back but kept for one year only.
• Categories: Cat. 1: 18 years or older / Cat. 2: 13 to 17 years / Cat. 3: up to 12 years of age (reference date is the deadline)
• Schools: enclose a list with names and details (see «Labelling») of the participating students and information about a school, class, teacher, e-mail and telephone number.

I'm going to start this project by researching short comics, reading and getting my self-acquainted with short stories and understanding the story telling of a short comic and what stories fit and don't fit (in my opinion) a short story comic.

I'm not so interested in researching the styles of the comic book (visually) I want to see how other artists have managed the story telling with in pages or less that what I want to be influenced by.

I'm a little worried that the limit of the pages is 4, I feel that's going to be a struggle to tell a story with in 4 pages...and to find a story that will work in 4 pages. 

 I stumbled across this on deviant art. its a 6 page short comic. its star wars vs alien, shit idea I know but the story telling is great. the lay out of the panels on the page really helps with telling the story. iv all ready planned to research panels and sequential by books, web sights, class maybe and most definitely the web but after realising my struggles and been shown an example of how I can manage this, I feel that I need to do more by actually contacting a sequential artists and discussing their experience with a similar task. 

were does short story comics live???

I want to know were short comics exist apart from the high street. in its applied content

viz magazine, newspapers, zines,publications, products, posters



  

the 3 images below I found on google and deviant art, iv chose to blog because all ready its given me an idea how I can get a story in a short limit of 4 pages. the pages below have over working panels or have lost of panels on one page. but still have good quality work in there, I think they can have lots of panels and high-level quality work due to there well-designed composition work. something that I have to consider when I'm creating the panels. I have to make experiments with the composition of each panel in order for the story to work like these images below have.

  

again the image below is working with good composition and many panels on one page and the story is working well but i haven't blogged it for them reasons iv blogged this to an example of good story telling by mood emotion and atmosphere. this artist has chosen some real dark side of colours to use, this really brings the mood to the story. the composition brings that perspective that you are the child on the floor...that brings sympathy also because you get a sense of knowing what the character is going through. the artists have chosen to put the character in front of the light, brilliant craft. 

all these little tricks haven't happened by mistake there has been storyboard roughs and thumbnails and all kinds of experiments until the artists found the right elements to tell the story 

  

i bought this book of amazon. its jam packed full of short stories. 

"24 artists take on 7 pages to tell their tales of the creation of everything"

                    

i'll try to format my work in the same way that the artists have done above, layered panels clever composition and expression and atmosphere all these to convey the story with limited pages. 

finding a story 

for this project i wanted to be influence to create my own story, i have plans for a project in the second semester were i translate falk law stories into comic books so i don't i want to repeat the same project.  first, i think i should consider what audience i want to aim this story at. 12 and under? 13 to 17? or 18s and over? then i should consider what the genre will be. (sci-fi, fantasy, horror,  comedy, thriller, romantic, action, detective etc.) i should then discover a theme (historical, futuristic, fairy tail, cowboys and Indians etc.)

researching 18+ comics...

spawn

walking dead

 

there are other 18+ comics but I don't think it's appropriate to put on my blog but you can imagine what kind of comics surfaced in my research. I love gory adult graphic novels, it's nice to see that cartoon comic style isn't been repressed to stereotypical comic book stuff. I think it's great that comics is know been seen as acceptable through all ages. 

researching 12 to 18 comic books 

a lot of marvel material aimed are aimed at the age group I feel. its more tongue and cheek, less serious more magical with no explanation needed...could be more fun in that sense anything is possible.. its the same as the adult stuff but the adult stuff use reasoning to their story lines. 

research under 12s comics 

not much to say about these but that i'm not interested in drawing this style for children so this has answered part of my question to what age group to i want to aim my story at...defonatly not under 12s BUT i like the stories that are related to this books. the journeys that they take the audience so maybe my story could investigate the journey i'm taking someone on, or illustrating the journey that someone is going on. 

researching a genre for a story

i want to explore the possiblitys of gurners before i crate a story, i want to find somthing that inspires a story and make that for the age group im aiming my storyt at. 

i spent some time searching concept art to get inspired for a genre, iv posted a list of pictures that i saw and i felt that spark with...i felt that i could find a story with in it.

mythical

sci fi 

fantasy 

horror 

fantasy and horror are the genre that I'm more pulled towards, but at the same time I'm thinking about how i can incorporate these into a story that i create something that older children would like ass well ages from 10 to 14. but i want adults to pick this up and say this is cool!

im thinking about making the art high level, detailed stuff the kind of work you see in the adult comic books (that will attract the older generations) but the story is to be aimed at 10 to 14-year-old people. a tricky task but with the right storyboarding and story telling i think i can pull this off. 

THE INSPIRATION!!!

on my lunch brake whilst scoffing down a protein shake ( liquid lunches are fast to consume...more time to work) i stumbled across this image on Pinterest (above)...and it made me go awwww and it reminded me of an old illustration that i had done for a quote " the power of a childs imagination" (below)

this has sparked an idea for a story for my projects. 

a child dressed up in house hold things pretending to be something, the story is following the child but through his imagination.