Comic Books Computer Lab Day

Tom sez, "Our Stanford Creative Writing class wrote and illustrated a 224 page Graphic Novel this past quarter, and now it's up on the web. The story concerns the phenomenon of acid attacks in Cambodia, especially against women. We made the Graphic Novel in 6 weeks, with a collaboration among 17 students in creative writing, art, and design." (Thanks, Tom!)

17.O ne Manga (recommended by Xenia)

May 10, 2011

Hello Students:

There are 2 tasks lined up for you today.

#1 - visit www.cnn.com/studentnews and listen to today’s news report. If you do not have your earbuds, then please read the transcript.

#2 - You may visit any link at this site: http://www.brainbackbend.com/BrainBackBend/Graphic_Novels.html

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Hello Students:

There are 3 tasks lined up for you today. If you have already selected your movie line, then you can skip #3.

#1 - visit www.cnn.com/studentnews and listen to today’s news report. If you do not have your earbuds, then please read the transcript.

#2 - You may visit any link at this site: http://www.brainbackbend.com/BrainBackBend/Graphic_Novels.html

Choose a television show or movie you have seen within the last few weeks, and compare and contrast the script with the show/movie. Does the script read like the show/movie? How is it the same or different from the show/movie?

#3 - if you do not already have your movie line selected & memorized, please do redo this assignment:

Visit the links below, and select one movie line for you to memorize, rehearse, and present to the class. Additionally, you will need to know the following:

The answer to question #1 is required, and your answers

to questions #2 & #3 are optional, but recommended:

REQUIRED

1. The name of the actor & movie(s) containing your famous movie lines.

OPTIONAL

18.The name of the movie character who speaks your line in the movie, and
19.The context in the movie in which the line is spoken. Obviously, for this one, you either have to see the movie or do some online research about that scene in the movie.

You can find movie lines here:

Wikipedia’s Entry for Famous Movie Lines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI's_100_Years...100_Movie_Quotes

Movie Quotes here: http://www.filmsite.org/greatfilmquotes.html

Top 10 Movie Quotes here: http://www.filmsite.org/topquotes.html

OPTIONAL

You get Super Bonus points if you choose lines from movies we have viewed in class.

Finally,

You have the opportunity to present your movie lines to the class. I have plans to film students presenting their lines and show the film at the Falcon Media Festival. And...of course, you will be expected to present your lines with respect to how the writer intended the actor to convey the meaning of the words within your lines. Thus, you cannot simply memorize the lines and present them without feeling, emotion or any sense of the context in which they were delivered by the actor during the filming of the movie. This means that you will have to understand the meaning of those lines and what those words were intended to do and mean within the film.

If you have not completed last week’s assignment, please do that now (scroll down to last week). If you have completed it, then you may begin this assignment:

First, visit www.cnn.com/studentnews and listen to today’s news report. If you do not have your earphones, then please read the transcript.

Second, select one famous movie line for you to memorize, rehearse and present to the class. Additionally, you will need to know the following:

The answers to questions #1 and #2 are required, and answers to questions #3 & #4 are optional, but recommended:

REQUIRED

1. The name of the actor & movie containing your famous movie lines.

2.The context of the lines being spoken. What is going on in the story line of the movie before the lines and immediately after the lines?

OPTIONAL

3.The name of the movie character who speaks your line in the movie, and
4.The real name of the actor who speaks your lines in the movie.

You can find movie lines here:

Wikipedia’s Entry for Famous Movie Lines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI's_100_Years...100_Movie_Quotes

Movie Quotes here: http://www.filmsite.org/greatfilmquotes.html

Top 10 Movie Quotes here: http://www.filmsite.org/topquotes.html

Finally,

Finally, using www.goanimate.com create a movie scene using your selected movie line.

March 22

First, visit www.cnn.com/studentnews and listen to today’s news report. If you do not have your earphones, then please read the transcript.

Second, if you have not finished this assignment, please do it now: there are different assignments based on your grade level. Please read this thoroughly as this will count as a 45% grade for the 5th Six Weeks.

8th Grade - If you are in 8th grade, you are required to make an animation at www.goanimate.com that concerns the topics of Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny.

Here are your criteria:

Your animation must be at least 15 seconds in length.
Your animation must be clearly connected to the US History concepts of Manifest Destiny & Westward Expansion
You must email a link of your animation to me. You must put your real name (not your user name) in the subject heading of your email. Send your animation link to brainbackbend2010@gmail.com
This animation is due by Wednesday, March 2nd. This means that if you do not finish during the lab time, you are required to either stay after school and finish or use your time at home to finish.

6th & 7th Grades - If you are in 6th or 7th grade, you are required to make an animation at www.goanimate.com that concerns the topic of recycling.

Here are your criteria:

Your animation must be at least 15 seconds in length.
Your animation must be clearly related to the idea of recycling.
You must email a link of your animation to me. You must put your real name (not your user name) in the subject heading of your email. Send your animation link to brainbackbend2010@gmail.com
This animation is due by Wednesday, March 2nd. This means that if you do not finish during the lab time, you are required to either stay after school and finish or use your time at home to finish.

Third, if you are finished, you may visit www.goaniamte.com or http://www.nga.gov/kids/

March 8

Go to this site and make art: http://www.nga.gov/kids/

No. You may not visit any other site. There is plenty on this site for you and your creative energies.

Second, If you did not finish this assignment, you need to finish it:

For today, there are different assignments based on your grade level. Please read this thoroughly as this will count as a 45% grade for the 5th Six Weeks.

8th Grade - If you are in 8th grade, you are required to make an animation at www.goanimate.com that concerns the topics of Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny.

Here are your criteria:

Your animation must be at least 15 seconds in length.
Your animation must be clearly connected to the US History concepts of Manifest Destiny & Westward Expansion
You must email a link of your animation to me. You must put your real name (not your user name) in the subject heading of your email. Send your animation link to brainbackbend2010@gmail.com
This animation is due by Wednesday, March 2nd. This means that if you do not finish during the lab time, you are required to either stay after school and finish or use your time at home to finish.

February 22

For today, there are different assignments based on your grade level. Please read this thoroughly as this will count as a 45% grade for the 5th Six Weeks.

8th Grade - If you are in 8th grade, you are required to make an animation at www.goanimate.com that concerns the topics of Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny.

Here are your criteria:

Your animation must be at least 15 seconds in length.
Your animation must be clearly connected to the US History concepts of Manifest Destiny & Westward Expansion
You must email a link of your animation to me. You must put your real name (not your user name) in the subject heading of your email. Send your animation link to brainbackbend2010@gmail.com
This animation is due by Wednesday, March 2nd. This means that if you do not finish during the lab time, you are required to either stay after school and finish or use your time at home to finish.

6th & 7th Grades - If you are in 6th or 7th grade, you are required to make an animation at www.goanimate.com that concerns the topic of recycling.

Here are your criteria:

Your animation must be at least 15 seconds in length.
Your animation must be clearly related to the idea of recycling.
You must email a link of your animation to me. You must put your real name (not your user name) in the subject heading of your email. Send your animation link to brainbackbend2010@gmail.com
This animation is due by Wednesday, March 2nd. This means that if you do not finish during the lab time, you are required to either stay after school and finish or use your time at home to finish.

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February 15

You may visit any of the links listed here:

1. Wikipedia entry for Graphic Novels

2. ALA Graphic Novels

3.Museum of Black Superheroes

4.No Flying No Tights

5. Graphic Novel Links Via Cincinnati Library

6. Internet Public Library, graphic novels

7.Time’s Top 10 Graphic Novels

8.More of Time’s Top Graphic novels

9.Reviews of graphic novels from school library journal

10.GN in curriculum

11.GN article in The new yorker

12.GN in the classroom pdf file

13.Argument for gn literacy

14. Columbia University graphic novel page

15.Carnegie library for grapahic novels

16.GRAPHIC NOVEL PRODUCED AT STANFORD

17.O ne Manga (recommended by Xenia)

February 1 & 8

You may visit any of the links here:

January 18, 2011

Happy Tuesday, Fulmore Comics & Graphic Novel Students.

Today you will get the chance to use an online animation program.

First, however, if you are on Twitter, you will get bonus points for following BrainBackBend. So, if you are on Twitter, access you Twitter account now, and follow BrainBackBend. Go here for Twitter >>> www.twitter.com

Second, You are invited to explore the animation link below. To save your work, you will need to sign up for an account - so be prepared to sign up for an account. For today, I will not be providing direct instruction for this site. Sometimes, you learn best just through experimentation and trial and error.

To make animations go here >>> www.goanimate.com

For your first project, please make a short video/animation related to the theme of music. For example you can make an animation about someone learning how to play music, or make an animation about a band giving a concert. These are just suggestions, you can choose whatever topic interests you; it does not have to be about music.

Remember, we are having a film festival on May 21st, and the movies/videos that you make in class today, may end up in the festival.

January 11, 2011

You are invited to visit one or more of these links for our time in the Lab today:

Make an Animation >>> www.goanimate.com

Make a comic >>> www.stripcreator.com

Black Superheroes >>> .Museum of Black Superheroes

SuperHeroes >>> SuperHero