Module 3 Planning

My current plan is to make a comic of the scene in "Peter and the Wolf" where Peter steals the keys to the fence and first enters into the forest behind the old man's home.

Because I have had difficulties with hand drawings, I'm going to make the comic by taking screenshots from the animation, repaneling them into a comic form (I want to go for a manga-ish style with different shaped panels and spacing), and then using photoshop or illustrator to make simple line drawings.

Module 2, "You got Mail" Storyboard

module 2, Storyboard for "Eddie the Warthog" scene

module 2, 6-9 Panel Comic

Module 1, Part 4

For my discussion of comic format as an informational tool, I chose "The Adventures of Johnny Bunko", a manga style inspired graphic novel written by Dan Pink exploring right brain thinking and career success.

"Johnny Bunko" explores the working world in an inventive and visually engaging way. The use of images and comic format complement the theme of creative thinking. Instead of dictating through long, dull "walls of text", readers will want to think about the themes as they relate to the characters and situations in the story. Not to mention, using a medium such as a graphic novel allows career advice, usually a dull subject, to be fun and engaging. I read it last year and it is one of the few "success" guides I have ever truly enjoyed reading, and certainly the only one I would read again.

Module 1, Part 3

Here is the "mind map" portion of module 1. I personally found it rather difficult to make an interesting mind map because most of my classes are math and comp sci this semester. As a result it was difficult to communicate the ideas clearly without a lot of words.

Module 1, Part 2

Here is my informational graphic entitled "How to Spot an RPI Freshman":