Digi Arts Group B: Session Targets for Monday 6th November

Brandon, Courtney, Dante, Oscar.

Session Objective: Be able to present your own original ideas for a graphic narrative as a carefully styled slide presentation.(powerpoint / keynote).

Task 1: 
Choose a presentation design / template appropriate to your chosen comic book theme and place the elements of your graphic narrative idea into it.

Contents reminder:

• Title page with your name and name of your graphic narrative.
• Storyline page giving details of what the story is about, where it is set and who the main characters are.
• Character design page(s) introducing your visuals for the main characters (you must have some of your own original designs here). This should also include notes explaining your design ideas - why they look the way they do.
• Market research page(s) presenting examples of existing graphic narrative with similar themes or audiences. Plus notes using these examples to explain how these demonstrate audience potential for your own idea.

Task 2: 

Use back ground images, fonts etc to echo the style of your graphic narrative idea throughout your presentation. Eye catching presentations are the key way to attract funders / investors for your projects.

Joely, Yoonis

Session Objective: Be able to plan independent shoot work needed for completion of client commission.

Task 1: 

On your blog write a short review of the shots that you have successfully achieved so far towards completion of your commission, and list those that you still need to do.

Task 2: 

Create shoot plans for the shots which you still need to do. Please share your shoot plans t me before next session.

Digi Arts Group A: Session Targets for Monday 6th November

Titus & Daniel (Working with Izzy): 

Session Objective:
Be able to use storyboarding techniques to plan your graphic narrative.

Task 1: 
Create a bullet point list of the scenes which make up your story.

ADVICE: Each scene should correspond to a frame of your comic book / graphic novel.
Your bullet point for each scene should explain what 'action' is happening, where it is set and include any 'dialogue' necessary.

Task 2:
Begin to plan out the character positions  and camera angles and which you will use for each scene within a storyboard template.

ADVICE: It is fine to use simple stick figure drawing for this if you want to. The aim is to think clearly about the shots needed to tell the story in an exciting way.

Akram, Aden, Christopher, Amir, Riel, Adam 

(Working with Mark).

Session Objective: 

Be able to generate ideas for your own original 'Graphic Narrative".

Task 1:

Take part in a short group discussion of Graphic Narrative examples and key terms.

(Key terms: Graphic Narrative, Comic Book, Graphic Novel, Children's Book, Audience,  Characters, Protagonist, Antagonist)

Task 2:

Using physical examples and those on the Digi arts blog to inspire you, create a brain-storm of potential story topics for your own graphic narrative.

Ext: Add ideas about characters and audiences to your favourite story topic ideas.

ADVICE: Produce your brain-storm as a word / powerpoint or google doc and share it to both Digi Arts tutors at the end of the session.  ( mark.anthony.brown@wac.co.uk   jane.maxwell@wac.co.uk )

LINKS TO INSPRINIG EXAMPLES ON THE DIGIARTS BLOG:

Rap Comic

Rap personas and comic book heroes

Music Inspired Graphic Narrative

Post 16 Digi Arts Groups

Welcome back Artists :) for the rest of the term we will  be working in the same two groups as you do for Music and Film. Just in case you are not sure which group you are in see below:

Group A 
Tutor: Mark
Room: Video Tech
Titus
Daniel
Akram
Aden

Christopher 

Amir 

Riel 

Adam 

Group B
Tutor: Jane
Rooms: Classroom (Next door to the town room)
Joely
Yoonis
Brandon
Courtney
Dante
Oscar