Comic Reflection

For the Comic Strip Assignment, it was a fun and creative project to partake in but this project had required lots of work and time to complete. From being a person that has trouble with technology, I found it a little difficult to complete this project as I had to play around with a new software that I normally didn’t use and I had to take some time to get used to it. I found it troublesome to insert the pictures from the internet into the frames of the comic strip as the software, Comic Life, did not manually do this for me. I had to adjust the size of the picture to fit in the frames perfectly, and I found this a bit annoying to do because I believed that software would adjust the picture size itself. Sometimes, the software zoomed in the picture I had chosen and cut off the important content of the picture. This especially made me frustrated as I had to remake the picture the same size of the boxes. In order to make the picture the same size of the boxes, I screenshotted the picture to make the size small and cut off unimportant content. Although the process of inserting the pictures in the frames was time-consuming, I found it fun to insert dialogue into my comic as it made my comic more interesting and brought some life into it. Comic Life was user-friendly for the templates as it offered many templates that I thought was suitable for my comic. I had to edit the templates sometimes because of the picture sizing problem.

I believe the idea of using comic strips to portray well-understanding of course material is ideal for courses such as Humanities/ English and Social. In the below, there will be three example of projects used in Humanities 8, Socials 11 and Socials in the order of comic strips.

Humanities 8: There will be Wolves Novel Project
Project Description: Your task of this project is to perform well-understanding of the novel by creating a comic strip of the novel, “There will be Wolves” for 10 chapters of the book. Remember to include the theme of the novel, and the climax of the novel. The comic strip should be visually-appealing and be evident of hard work and time spent on this assignment. The comic strip should also include the key elements of a novel(character, theme, plot, Types of Point of View, setting, conflict, and tone). Attach an outline to show your process.

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Reasons why that I made this assignment: I made this assignment for the students to understand the novel in depth and maybe help them memorize the key events in the book. This project can also help them to get ready for their test in the future for the novel.