GRAPHIC Characters
How can I represent a character's thoughts and motivations?
Today's Goals
By the end of the lesson, I will understand how writers convey a character's internal thoughts, motivations, and feelings through dialogue and illustrations.
- analyze character's motivations, interests, and ambiguities
- adapt a script into a graphic novel to convey a character's internal thoughts, motivations, and ambiguities
To be successful I will need to:
- closely read a mentor text
- collaborate with my group to analyze the illustrator's choices
- make inferences about character and author's purpose using clues in the text
- brainstorm, plan, revise, and re-make a scene from Macbeth into a graphic novel spread
Definitions
- "juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence."
- “a full-length (esp. science fiction or fantasy) story published as a book in comic-strip format.”
- book-length works of sequential art expanded in scope [beyond science fiction and fantasy] to include biography, memoir, history, and other types of non-fiction.
- "graphic literature" "graphic story"
How do artists tell stories in graphic novels?
Graphic Characterization
Choose a scene with dialogue that you have been analyzing as part of your group's character analysis. Re-make the scene by adapting it into a graphic novel sequence. Be sure to:
- Plan how you will use panels, gutters and space to sequence moments of the scene
- Apply different paneling techniques to convey nuances about your character
- Thoughtfully embed dialogue
- Consider the point of view to convey in your sequences
You can choose your own graphic novel templates and create a digital spread at http://comicbookpaper.com/