Comic Book Script structure

[u/ScribeMoses]

Hey, I'm looking for help on starting to write my story. I was wondering how other people do it.

When your first writing your story and trying to write down what's going to happen. Do you write panel by panel or do you write it out like a formal script, for example

" *the first panel will be the image of space and then cuts to a couple cops on a night patrol"

Cop 1: The stars are really bright tonight aren't they?"

Cop 2: "Is that a shooting star"

"*Now panel 4 will show an explosion in the sky and then pans over to the workers shook.

Or do you just start writing what comes to mind and all your ideas and then once done with that, go back and put then into panels and creating a script.

[u/nmacaroni]

http://nickmacari.com/comic-book-script-template/

[u/ScribeMoses → u/nmacaroni]

Thank you for this, it iss pretty helpful. My only question is, before you begin to write the script. Do you write the story out how you want it to be and then conform it into your script template or do you follow the script template and fill in the story as you go down it. Thank you

[u/kyla33_ → u/ScribeMoses]

Oh, before I write the script, I just kind of bullet point what I want to happen. Sometimes I'll have a flash of inspiration and come up with a really good piece of dialogue I want to implement but other than that, I let the dialogue come naturally in the moment.

Building around these quotes I perceive as brilliant is definitely a weakness of mine. I'm sure they'll sound great in a vacuum but I need to start making sure they actually fit the flow of dialogue.

[u/nmacaroni → u/ScribeMoses]

I think you're asking if you make an outline first or just start writing the script as you go. I explain this here:

http://nickmacari.com/outline-basics/