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jmanchester0's review against another edition
4.0
It‰ЫЄs cool to see how different writers format their scripts. And I have to say I was a bit impressed with myself that I did a pretty decent job on my first comics script recently.
One thing I took away was what Kirt Busiek said he learned from Frank Miller.
"‰Ы_I had an unpublished script of his, and I‰ЫЄd noted how his panel descriptions almost always focused first and foremost on the one story moment that was most important to the panel, and filled in any extra details - settings, background, mood, whatever - afterward. Instead of describing the picture he envisioned, he was describing what the reader should see first, describing the moment, and it made the script cleaner, tighter and easer to follow. So I‰ЫЄve tried to do that ever since, and it made my scripts that much better, that much more about story than about description."
One thing I took away was what Kirt Busiek said he learned from Frank Miller.
"‰Ы_I had an unpublished script of his, and I‰ЫЄd noted how his panel descriptions almost always focused first and foremost on the one story moment that was most important to the panel, and filled in any extra details - settings, background, mood, whatever - afterward. Instead of describing the picture he envisioned, he was describing what the reader should see first, describing the moment, and it made the script cleaner, tighter and easer to follow. So I‰ЫЄve tried to do that ever since, and it made my scripts that much better, that much more about story than about description."
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