Welcome to the world of Necessary Monsters. This is a preview of the first chapter of the Necessary Monsters graphic novel from First Comics. As an added bonus, each page of the preview includes a copy of the script from which it was drawn. There’ll also be an additional little bit of director’s commentary in these sections here under the comic. So, let’s get started, shall we?
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Welcome to the script for chapter one. Some general notes:
In most cases I’ve not given any descriptions of page layout other than occasionally saying large or small panel, when I think it’s important to get across my intent for the pacing of the page. Other than that, I leave layouts up to your own best judgement.
Mostly I’m working to roughly five or six panels per page. If you feel the need to break panels down or merge them together at any point to make a layout or scene work, then feel free to do so, providing no panel ends up getting too cluttered by word balloons as a result.
Any description I give for how to shoot the scene in a panel is only ever a suggestion – if you can see a better way to do something that keeps to my basic intent, then go for it. If anything’s really unclear or confusing then it’s my fault for writing it like that – just get in touch and I’ll try to clarify what I meant.
Since I’ve already provided you with separate descriptions of most of the main cast I haven’t replicated their physical descriptions in the script, unless there’s a particular need to. For new or bit-part characters I haven’t gone crazy on the description either – just enough to give you an idea of who/what they are. Again, any questions, do ask.
Oh, and occasionally I use the word “camera” to describe what it is the reader is seeing, as in “turn the camera around so we can see…” I wouldn’t bother to mention it, but Douglas takes the piss when I write it for him, so I thought I’d just forewarn you that it’s a habit of mine.
Right, onwards we go.
In most cases I’ve not given any descriptions of page layout other than occasionally saying large or small panel, when I think it’s important to get across my intent for the pacing of the page. Other than that, I leave layouts up to your own best judgement.
Mostly I’m working to roughly five or six panels per page. If you feel the need to break panels down or merge them together at any point to make a layout or scene work, then feel free to do so, providing no panel ends up getting too cluttered by word balloons as a result.
Any description I give for how to shoot the scene in a panel is only ever a suggestion – if you can see a better way to do something that keeps to my basic intent, then go for it. If anything’s really unclear or confusing then it’s my fault for writing it like that – just get in touch and I’ll try to clarify what I meant.
Since I’ve already provided you with separate descriptions of most of the main cast I haven’t replicated their physical descriptions in the script, unless there’s a particular need to. For new or bit-part characters I haven’t gone crazy on the description either – just enough to give you an idea of who/what they are. Again, any questions, do ask.
Oh, and occasionally I use the word “camera” to describe what it is the reader is seeing, as in “turn the camera around so we can see…” I wouldn’t bother to mention it, but Douglas takes the piss when I write it for him, so I thought I’d just forewarn you that it’s a habit of mine.
Right, onwards we go.
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