From the course: Learning Graphic Novel Storyboarding
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Extreme close up - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Learning Graphic Novel Storyboarding
Extreme close up
- [Narrator] Extreme close ups can be really useful in comics and can be very effective in spelling out for our viewer precisely what they should be focusing on in any individual panel. Sometimes we're talking about conversational or emotional scenes where we're extremely close and we can really drill home to our reader what the character is going through. We can get right into their face and thus right into their heads, seeing every twitch or tear fall down their face. Sometimes you'll use extreme close ups to show a character seeing something very intense, or in shock, or waking up out of a nightmare. I also tend to use extreme close ups on those objects, like I talked about before. Here I'm showing somebody removing a necklace and then putting it on someone else. And it can really help to show that quiet, you know, slowed down version of that very same scene that you can see in a multitude of different ways. Sometimes it's a character picking up their weapon or clenching their…
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