How a page gets scripted

A beat is what happens on the page — one moment of story. Komiks turns it into the page's panels: how many, what each one shows, the camera angle, and who says what.

Scripting is text, not art, so it costs nothing. You can rescript a page as many times as you like for free before you spend a single credit drawing it.

Writing a beat that scripts well

• ·Say what changes. "He realises the package is still ticking" gives the page a shape; "he is in a room" does not.
• ·Name the characters you want in it, using the names from your cast.
• ·Mention the place if it matters — the setting travels into every panel of the page.
• ·Leave the shot choices alone unless you care. Asking for a specific angle is useful for one panel, restrictive for five.