Drawing Focus: using motion design to highlight the text.
Nerdwriter‘s video essay on Art Speigelman’s Maus focuses on just one page of the iconic graphic novel, using colour and line to emphasise words and panel details, and interpolating other sources into the comic page’s existing framework:
Another example from Nerdwriter, this time using type – colour and composition change and rearrange, illustrating his analysis of the text through information design:
Lessons from the Screenplay uses type to structure its exploration:
- section heading font
- quote font
- screenplay font
At one point, text is literally highlighted to show the function of dialogue in the script for The Matrix:
Further Viewing
Go even further with static assets, using stylised and engaging visual storytelling techniques:
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