I’m working on a art project and need support to help me learn.turn the attached paper (covid story.pdf) into a comic strip or an infographicSome of you may be excited, and others may be thinking, “I’m not a great artist”. I am not judging your drawing (nor your writing). The purpose of this exercise is to use a visual mode to practice re-designing your text.
In this exercise, you will be distilling your project into a visual mode (a comic strip or an infographic) by making specific choices. You will then write a reflection (approx. 150 words) explaining your process. In your reflection, discuss: The choices you made along the way (overall purpose, moments, frame, image and words, and flow.
Whether or not may use visual modes to help you plan your future writing projects.
How will you get this done? I recommend reverse outlining your most current draft of a project of your choice to begin your translation activity. A reverse outline, essentially, is to read your paper and determine what each paragraph does. Write a sentence next to each paragraph that describes what the paragraph does (purpose) in relation to the paper as a whole and what it says (literal meaning). This exercise will help you
1) identify the important moments that make up the overall idea and/or take away from your piece and
2) how the overall structure of the piece works (or does not work).
If you choose to create a comic strip, please follow the following steps and criteria.Reread the most current draft of the project of your choice and identify the few key moments you want to highlight. A trick here is to first consider the big picture:
What is the overall idea/message? Then, ask yourself: Which moments are necessary for the reader to get my idea/messagesYou may use up to 10 panels (max. 2 pages) for your comic strip, so you really have to be selective about those moments.
Consider how you are going to frame each moment. Each moment is captured in a panel. From what perspective are you going to frame the moment? You may pull out to show the big picture or you may zoom in to show a close view of something.
Also consider: What does the reader need to see to create a sense of place or to understand the context?
Choose (and create) images that capture the moment. As you draw, you can use techniques and styles, such as graphic contrast, depths, and life-like or cartoonish drawings, to evoke a specific appearance of your characters. You want to pay attention to the balance between clarity of idea and intensity. If everything is intense, your clarity will get lost.
You will then choose words that clearly communicate the ideas, voices, and sounds in combination with images. Maximum words per panel should be 35 words.
Panels should be arranged to show how your story flows from one panel to another. In other words, the panels should be ordered to show relations between one another. The reader should be able to move from one panel to another smoothly in order to understand how your story develops and to get your overall idea/message.
In your 150 words reflective memo, discuss:
1) the choices you made along the way (overall purpose, moments, frame image and words, and flow;
2) ways in which you were able to enhance, clarify, expand the story you intended to tell in your paper;
3) how this translation activity may (or may not) help you in your future writing situations.
Visual genres, such as the comic strip, can help you identify the most important theme or message in your writing because you have to carefully make a series of choices in its construction. Do you think you may use a visual genre to plan your future writing?How do you submit a comic strip? You can draw and create your graphic novel on a piece of paper or use an app to create it online.
If you choose to create on a piece of paper, you can scan or take a picture of your piece and upload a file, along with your reflective memo.If you choose to create an infographic, you can view the attached how-to-make-an-infographic exampleHow do you submit an infographic?You can either create a pdf copy of your infographic and submit a file along with a separate reflection memo document, or you can copy and paste a link to your infographic onto your reflection memo document.
