making comics fast: design thinking as a tool to approach narrative learning
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Making Comics Fast
PF Anderson, Joyce Lee, Nancy Benovich GilbyEnriching Scholarship 2016
IdeaWhat if we mashed up DESIGN THINKING and a simplified COMICS rubric?
Image credit: <https://openclipart.org/detail/181394/radio-announcement>
Background 1DESIGN THINKING is … what?
What is design thinking?
<http://dschool.stanford.edu/dgift/>
Background 2COMICS rubric?
What do you mean, “comics rubric”?Scott McCloud: Understanding Comics <http://scottmccloud.com/2-print/1-uc/>
EdX: The Rise of Superheroes and Their Impact On Pop Culture: <https://www.edx.org/course/rise-superheroes-impact-pop-culture-smithsonianx-popx1-1x-2>
10 things before you start a comic <http://www.makingcomics.com/2014/09/24/10-things-start-comic-graphic-novel/>
How to start your own comic <http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Start-Your-Own-Comic-Book/>
What’s your contemporary social issue?
… or, in other words, what’s your purpose?
On Purpose: <http://www.dungbeetle.org/>
Make Health: <http://makehealth.us/>
A tell B (5 min)
B tell A (5 min)
Who’s your hero or protagonist?
Who’s your hero?
Character strengths
Character flaws
Origin storyOption 1: Partner & collaborate (15-20 min)
Option 2: Take turnsA tells B (10 minutes)B tells A (10 minutes)
Who’s your villain or antagonist?
Who’s your villain?
Character strengths
Character flaws
Origin story or symbolism
Option 1: Partner & collaborate (15-20 min)
Option 2: Take turnsA tells B (10 minutes)B tells A (10 minutes)
What’s your story or plotline or scene?
What’s your story?
Set the scene
Buildup
Conflict
ResolutionOption 1: Partner & collaborate
(15-20 min)Option 2: Take turnsA tells B (10 minutes)B tells A (10 minutes)
Pull it all together!
Templates
SUPERHERO BLANK TEMPLATES
Heromachine <http://www.heromachine.com/> | <http://www.heromachine.com/2008/01/27/free-blank-figure-templates/>
JufsAnne: <http://www.jufsanne.com/kinderboekenweek/2011/kinderboekenweek2011downloads.html>
STORYBOARD BLANK TEMPLATE <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a7QS9BEnPxPlNQRlf9YBfnefS0e5PbEz6MZ3vGLYh34/edit?usp=sharing>
Storyboard Blank
DESCRIPTION Action in Frame (Hero) Action in Frame (Villain)
Storyboard Example
Next steps
Alternatives to being an artistUNESCO: How to create and publish a photonovel <http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001821/182121E.pdf>
ETechLib: Cheap and Easy Ways to Make Comics or Cartoons for Digital Storytelling <https://etechlib.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/cheap-and-easy-ways-to-make-comics-or-cartoons-for-digital-storytelling/>
Alternatives to being an artist
Apps!
Contacts
PF Anderson / @pfanderson / <[email protected]>
Joyce Lee / @joyclee / <[email protected]>
Nancy Benovich Gilby / @nabgilby / <[email protected]>