- Script breakdown
A script breakdown is an intermediate step in the production of a play,
film ,comic book , or any other work that is originally planned using a script.Film and television
In
film andtelevision , a script breakdown is: a) an analysis of a screenplay in which all of the production elements are reduced to lists in order to schedule and budget the production; b) a director’s creative analysis of the dramatic action, reciprocal struggle, theme, and design elements of a screenplay.( [http://www2.austincc.edu/sbramme2/Glossary.htm Glossary for Introduction to Screenwriting]
Comics
In
comic book s, it is the process of determining how each action, character, and piece of dialogue described in the script will be placed visually on a page. In the studio system that dominated mass-market comic-book production from the 1940s through the 1970s, breakdowns were done by thepenciller or by a separate breakdown artist, rarely by the scriptwriter; in some cases, breakdowns were done from a rough story outline before the dialogue was written. Later comics writers such asAlan Moore andNeil Gaiman , influenced by cinematic technique, began to include more layout details within their scripts. Cartoonists who both write and draw their own work sometimes begin with a script and do their own breakdowns, and sometimes work through drawings without a separate script.ee also
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