From the course: Learning Graphic Novel Storyboarding

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- [Narrator] A close up shot gets us even closer, still, to whatever it is we're trying to show. These shots are usually cropped to show only the neck up of a character, or maybe it's not even the character, maybe it's a hand from that character and we're also seeing the environment as well as a full shot of a secondary character. Maybe you are closing in on a character as they're giving a very emotional speech, and again, leaving room on the side there for those word balloons. Or maybe this character is listening to an emotional speech and you really want to see that reaction on their face. The idea is to get close and make your viewer really feel what the character is feeling. As I mentioned before, you're not always only showing a character's face and it's not only about the emotion that we're seeing in their expression, but sometimes on the objects within that scene. We're going to get even closer on those objects in the next movie, extremely close.

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