Friday, January 17, 2014

Second Assignment: Adapt a Short Story

For your first major challenge of the semester I would like you to adapt one of the short stories linked on the syllabus or on the course resources page to an comic of less than 20 pages. For this you need to learn comic script form, which isn't hard but takes some practice. A very brief explanation of comic script form is at this site:

How to Format a Comic Book Script

Post your script Blog for this class.

If you would like some examples look at some by various professional authors of comics at the comic script archives. There is also a good Word template that you can download from this site. The link is here and in the course links:

Comic Script Archive


Some students prefer to use a software program that pre-formats the script for comics. Celtx is the one I usually recommend because it is free and has a comic script format included.

Celtx

You can export your work as html or a pdf file and link it to your portfolio blog.

Please adapt one of the stories available on the Course Resource page, all of these are in public domain and can be adapted as freely as you would like. You are welcome to change anything about the text you need to, place it in a different setting, condense the setting, or whatever, to try to get the best script for comics you can. Please post the script on your blog before coming to class. This is probably the most work intense assignment of the semester. If you have any questions you can ask them by email.

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