CYBERPUNK 2077: Big City Dreams / page by page analysis

CYBERPUNK 2077: Big City Dreams

Page by page analysis

1, 2, 3, 4 – faded, bright, naturalistic color - the farm, wife leaves

• 1 – ext - car driving

• 2, 3 – ext - arriving at farm

• 4 – int – talking

o Final panel ext, wife leaving

5 – int/ ext, saturated, pale yellow – kid leaving job

6, 7, 8, 9 – saturated purple – introducing main characters, chase scene

• Alternating int / ext of car

10 – saturated turquoise – int at the doctor

11 – saturated orange – ext, talking sitting rooftop

12 – saturate yellow – int, braindance

• First panel is orange, ext of braindance building

13, 14, 15, 16, 17 – faded, bright, naturalistic color – ext, monster killing adventure 

18 – saturate yellow – int, braindance, talking

19, 20, 21, 22 – faded bright, naturalistic color, young farm couplr

• 19, 20, 21 – ext, farm

• 22 – int, farm couple bedroom

23, 24, 25, 26 – saturated pink orange color, ext 

• 23 talking

• 24, 25 – hit

• 26 – on bike, talking

27 – int, saturated yellow, braindance

28, 29, 30, 31 – ext, faded naturalistic color, on the farm, father and daughter

• Panel ends looking up at the sky

32 – ext, saturated orange, black sky, night city, talking

• Page begins looking up at the sky

33, 34  – int, saturated turquois, doctor’s office

35 – ext, saturated orange, night city argument

36, 37 – light, naturalistic color – ext, daughter at gas station

38, 39 – light naturalist color, dark gray background – int, farmhouse, daughter wants to leave and go to night city

40 – saturated yellow, int braindance

41, 42, 43 – pale yellow, int of warehouse, confrontation and shootout

• Ext panels are saturated dark orange

• Final panel is escape on bike

44, 45 – ext, saturate orange, night city

• Final panels are leaving night city

o Colors transition to light and naturalistic

46 – ext, green brown

47, 48, 49, 50 – ext, at the farm, pastel colors

// observations

• night city scenes used saturated, stylized colors (harsher colors)
• each setting had it's own color pallete
• farm scenes used lighter, pastel naturalistic colors (softer colors)
• scenes were generally 1 to 4 pages in length
• variation in amount of dialog and action throughout story