We have dedicated four sessions to the study of story-telling in comics. We have paid special attention to the types of shots used in most cartoons: long shot, medium shot and close-up.
On the practical side, we have spent three sessions analising the opening pages of Osamu Tezuka’s ‘Future’ (included in volume 3 of ‘The Phoenix’). Students have been told to identify the type of shot, explain why the author used that particular type of shot and, in the case of frames with dialogues, translated them into Catalan.