Words you gotta know: 1. Sequential Art: Any drawing, painting or computer art that tells a story using a series of "scenes". A comic strip is an example of sequential art. 2. Black Line Drawing: A drawing composed only of outlines, no "fill" colors, including black. 3. Story Board: A sequence of drawings, usually with narration or "word bubbles" (the bubbles in a comic strip that contain words that are said or thought by the characters), representing the shots planned for a movie or television production. 4. Organic Object: Anything that is alive or was once alive or was created in nature. Examples include people, trees, birds, clouds, etc. 5. Mechanical Object: Anything created, made or built by humans that is not alive. Examples include cars, buildings, computers, etc. So, if you understand the above terms, you ought to be able to understand this statement: "The story board below is an example of sequential art. It has both organic and mechanical objects in it and probably began as a black line drawing." BEFORE I EVEN BEGIN telling you about this assignment, there's something REALLY important you need to make sure you do. You are going to have to use a lot of images you find online. Use them in your story board. Edit them in any way you need to. Color them. Whatever.
BUT, also save ALL of the images in their UNEDITED form, just like you found them online, in a separate folder named "LINE ART" and place that folder AND your finished project in a folder named "STORY BOARD" on the class flash drive. I will look at those images as well as your finished Story Board when I'm grading. Your assignment is to create a story board. In a series of blank boxes (your "panels" or "scenes") that you draw in INKSCAPE, create your own Story Board as follows: Create an original narrative (story). The narrative can be a story about anything... about you, someone else, something funny, something serious, something completely made up or it can be a true story. Your Story Board shall be created to meet the following criteria: 1 It is at least 1000 px in both width and height. It can be larger than that. 2 It contains a minimum of ten (10) panels or scenes. 3 It illustrates your narrative in chronological order (first something happens, then another thing happens and so on). 4 EACH of the panels contains the following: - iT CONTAINS AT LEAST two organic objects and two mechanical objects. For example, a person, a tree, a car and a building. - It is FULLY-COLORED including the use of GRADIENTS in EVERY PANEL/SCENE. - It contains words of some kind. These words can be put in there lots of different ways. You can use "word bubbles". There can be a little narration written across the bottom or top of each frame. The words can even be something written on the side of a wall or on a billboard or something. Use BLACK LINE DRAWINGS that you find online, meaning that you find drawings of the things you want to put in your storyboard that are just the outline. You will put them all together and color them yourself in PIXLR. Oh, and have fun and be creative with this thing :-) Comments are closed.
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