Comic Book Script Project

Comic Book Script Project

• Check out this website. Create a superhero. You may also use the graphic organizer handout for help designing your character.
• Give the character a special "power". Save & print out the graphic.  If you're having trouble with HM 3.0, check out earlier versions: Hero Machine 2 or Hero Machine 1 (the simplest version to use). NOTE: (optional) at home check out Champions Online. You can design your own superhero concepts for this online game.
• Use your character creation to create a short comic book script for this character. All films, plays, stories, comics, etc. start with a premise. What is this issue going to be about? Briefly sketch out an idea for your story.
• Most stories begin with a speculative idea: a "what if..." premise. Ex. What if the super villain Auntie-Establishment planted a bomb in the local Mall or at City Hall? How would a superhero stop her in time?
• Use the handouts to help you create your comic book script. See sample pages of a script, (see handout from last class).
• A draft of the script is due Monday, May 16. It must be at least 1 page long. It may need to be more than that to develop a story line or plot for your issue. Stories have a beginning, middle, or end. Comics can be as short as 1-page gags. See handout for samples of this kind of thing.
• For extra credit you may choose to illustrate 1 page of your script in Comic Life.

Period 8:
X-Men Synthesis: Please read the articles & review of X-Men (2000). Read or peruse the comic book draft as well. You will need these materials and your notes to write your review for X-Men.

 

We'll go next door to work on the synthesis and the X-Men film. You will be expected to write a review of the film.
HOMEWORK:

• Complete Maus and the reading questions. We'll chat about this book next class (or Monday). Homework reading questions are due when we have our discussion. 
• Prepare (read and take notes on) the X-Men articles and comic book issue.
• Design and continue to write your graphic novel script (these are due Monday, May 16).