1. The partial work with
elements of the comic language, separatedly: collection of vignettes individually
or in groups following different criteria:
a. Shot: make a mural exhibition
of different vignettes from different books, to exemplify different shots,
angles and sequences
b. Finding ellipses, and
public exhibition of them
c. Page design: choosing
different patterns, and justifying them by their meaning (verticality-falling
or rising / horizontality-calm / chaos,...)
d. Collection of different
types of vignettes, from different books, or balloons.
2. Work with only one book,
from different points of view.
a. Content: of a social
interest (domestic violence, emigration, racism, love, ...), historical,
documentary. etc.
b. Aspects of aesthetic
interest. One example: color in Miguelanxo Prado; graphic expressionism
in Gipi (some recommended books: Apuntes
para una historia de guerra, El local, Los inocentes)
c. Character analysis and
their evolution.
d. Any technical element
characteristic of comic: shots, script, ellipses, page dessing, ...
3. Playing with narrative
ellipses: after finding some in a book, practise creative writing (even
combined with image narration), trying to "fill" the gap that
the ellipse hides.
4. Choosing significative
mute scenes, practise to write the script, or making the balloons for
them.
5. Comparing a literary
work with its adaptation to comic. It can also be done the other way round.
6. Starting to create a
comic work with a limt in the number of vignettes. First, practise with
only three vignettes the equivalent of a short narrative fragment. With
this method one understands the importance of concision, and the discrimination
of contents according to their relevance to the whole story. Later on,
amplify the limt of vignettes.
7. Making
couples of creators: illustrator-scriptwriter.
8. Taking
one comic page (or two, three, ...)writing the technical script.
9. Choosing
several works in which places and settings are relevant (El Escorpión-Rome;
La mansión de los Pampín-Galicia; Blacksad-USA southern
states...)
10. Erasing
the texts from a page or story, fill them up again with new dialogues.
11. When
they are more fluent, create short adaptations of some short text (by
Manuel Rivas, Ánxel Fole, Allan Poe, ...)
12. Making
use of ICT tools, making a theme blog to work on comic with students:
create categories, or even publish projects made by them.
13. have
a good comic section at the school library, and acquire new publications
periodically. There is no better way to learn and love comic than to read
and enjoy it.
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