BALLOONS

Balloons (the Italian "fumetti") are a stereotype that we use so that characters may speak, think, dream, ...

They have two parts. the BALLOON itself (GLOBO in Galician and Spanish), and the DELTA. Inside the balloon we can find words, but also images, e it cointais the message to transmit. The DELTA points at the speaker, and we can see balloons with more than delta, or vice versa. Balloon of different shapes, deltas that are alive, which become snakes, ropes, spear, ...wow!!!

Imagine how many things we can do with the two parts of a balloon. Here are some examples:

 

 

The same as vignettes, balloons may adapt themselves to all the shapes we like, whenever they make sense in the story. look at these examples: the mother tells the girl off, but her words get into one ear and come out through the other; one man flies away holding to a delta; the police catches the thief by knocking him down with the balloon; and the examples above: balloons to speak at the same time with others, to express cold, an explosion, a shock, a thought, sadness, ...

EXAMPLE 1:

We have a huge balloon, with a long delta which gets lost into the clouds, to create some intrigue: who is shouting? Then several balloons with only one delta, expressing anger, the protagonist's anger.

EXAMPLE 2:

 

Alternative balloons, according to their mood: an angry man with another frightened one, talking like a robot, repeatedly.

 

PRACTISE

  • Draw some scenes in which the characters have balloons. Play with thei shape of the balloons, and also the delta. Make the delta participate in the scene, and affect the characters.
  • make a web search on the LITTLE NEMO character. You will find great examples about balloons.