Day 22

Friday September 23, 2011 Farm School: Day 22

Friday, September 23, 2011

Sophie worked on designing her storyboard for her 4 part comic strip of the Louisiana Purchase. We discussed caricatures and how to find recognizable facial/body features.  She looked at photographs, paintings and cartoons of the main characters in her story. .

      Sophie drew 4 main characters for her comic book and chose two landscape features that would help make her characters recognizable.

      Sophie chose the design format of her comic book.

      Sophie began the process of placing the story … and we discussed important facts – timeline -  and that humor is part of the ‘comic book’ format.

      Sophie took 72 photographs of the farm for use in her Fall Almanac.

ASSIGNMENT:

      Sophie needs to work on the rough draft of her storyboard – we have discussed how to use the provided templates. The main purpose is to designate the action and write the story not work on individual drawings.

      When/if Sophie finishes the rough draft of the storyboard she can begin the individual drawings. She is to take a 8x11 white paper and draw each block of the storyboard. We will then scan them into the computer and reduce them. Lastly we will edit and add the text.

o   Please remind her to keep the drawings simple so they can scan down and still be seen.