Cover
An image that:
attracts the eye of a customer to sell a publication from across a room
informs a customer (reader, viewer, or player) “This is what you have been looking for!”
even if a person did not know that before seeing the cover.
provokes curiousity to look inside or even to purchase to look inside the front surface of a book, box, comic book, magazine, newspaper, or package
Sequential Narrative
Any series of cartoons or illustrations published in books, magazines, and newspapers.
FUN WITH FACES
Showbiz jargon for promotional glamour close-up photography featuring professional and wannabe actresses and actors.
Based on clients saying, “I need you to do a head-shot of _______,” it has become my categorical word for portraits and caricatures.
DESIGN CONCEPT
The conceptual planning for creative procedure of graphically manifesting an idea into a format that anyone can see. understand, and agree.
Storyboards
A sequential narrative format
Used to present a story concept for financing and budgeting purposes
Motionboards
A sequential narrative formatted like storyboards
Pre-production design to plan camera moves for budgeting and recording the images of a single scene