Thursday, August 30, 2012

Starship Troopers – Before The Breach – Shaun Richens.


PAGE TWENTY-TWO

4 PANELS.

1,2,3 Form a top row.
4. Takes up the rest of the page.

1. We are looking straight on at the face of young female pilot. She wears a blank look on her face.

         CAPTION:
         War…

2. Same as 1. The pilots face has an eerie blue glow about. Her face has dropped. She looks devastated.

         CAPTION:
         What is it…

3. Same as 2. The blue glow has gotten even brighter and tears have started to fill the pilots eyes.

         CAPTION:
         Good for?

4. We are in orbit above KLENDATHU. A host of CORVETTE TRANSPORT ships are on fire and braking up. The ship closest to us has just been hit face on by a huge blue plasma burst. It was fired from a PLAMSA BUG on the planets surface. The ship catches fire and explosions are going off all around the bridge.

         NO COPY. 


3 comments:

  1. I really like the imagery you have going here, Shaun. It's a quiet script, but it packs a powerful punch.

    A small thought on the caption: it might sound strange, but I feel like the punctuation makes the quote come off a bit choppier than necessary, but perhaps it wouldn't be as noticeable on an actual comic book page.

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  2. The last panel gives it the kick it needed.

    Like Grant, I felt there was something 'off' about the way you've chosen to divide the lines up in the captions.

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  3. Cheers for the feedback guys. I originally had the full quote as one caption in the last panel, which I liked a lot. However I wanted to get the reader to focus on the face of the poor young pilot in her dying moments, I felt the broken down captions helped to slow the pace of those first three panels.

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