Second Semester - Final 10 Days Comic Book Page

Wednesday Warm Up- Pick one of the three prompts and write for 10 minutes. Turn this in Today!

• At a Chinese restaurant, your character opens his fortune cookie and reads the following message: "Your life is in danger. Say nothing to anyone. You must leave the city immediately and never return. Repeat: say nothing."...
• It's your character's first day at a new school. He or she wants to get a fresh start, develop a new identity. But in his or her homeroom, your character encounters a kid he or she knows from summer camp...
• At a garage sale, your character buys an antique urn which she thinks will look nice decorating her bookcase. But when she gets home, she realizes there is something unusual about this antique...

Thursday Warm Up - Fill out the Setting and Character Details handout. Be specific.  I'm checking these today! 

Agenda- 

• Drawing the figure with correct proportions
• Look through Comic design books for ideas
• Brainstorm ideas for your story. Think about things that can not happen in real life.  
•  Get Started: Short Story Tips
1. Who is your protagonist, and what does he or she want?
2. When the story begins, what significant actions has he or she already taken towards that goal?
3. What unexpected consequences — directly related to the protagonist’s efforts to achieve the goal — ramp up the emotional energy of the story? (Will the unexpected consequences force your protagonist to make yet another choice, leading to still more consequences?)
4. What significant choice does your protagonist make at the climax of the story?
5. You want to show the viewer, not just tell.  http://jerz.setonhill.edu/writing/creative1/shortstory/#Start

• Planning your layout - Things to consider when planning your page layout
• What images need to be seen, and what can be assumed by the reader?
• Which images could be bigger to tell the story?
• How will you place the dialog boxes so the viewer will read in the correct order?

Comic book Criteria

• Include a problem and a resolution in your story
• Complete two pages keeping the paper neat and clean
• A minimum of five facial expressions and two characters
• Include a background that changes with the movement of the characters
• Unify the images when designing your page layout
• You used pen to draw and shade your images