Week 10

Critique and continue working on my comic strip!

Assignment: Create a comic strip that accurately portray my story mentioned earlier with color thats at minimal 9 slides. 

Craft: Use photoshop and comic life to portray my story.

Concept: (Same as posted in week 9)

Composition: After a critique, I need some crop work to focus in on images. Color scheme is good and it focuses your eye on particular things in my story. I also need to add slides to better complete my concept of the story. I need to add a title page. One slide needs to be darker to bring out my models hair. If all is done, then story well be complete as well as portray my concept. 

Week 9

All week we critiqued our stories

Assignment: To have a draft of your story ready to be critiqued. 

Craft: Using photoshop, I made my make each slide look like a drawing. I adjusted the image into a chalk and charcoal scheme.

Composition: The feel of my story is dull with two twists. The package is that the woman is caring twins. The man is shocked and not excited about being a dad. The final twist is the women hits by a car. We can assume the man is no longer a dad and may have lost his girlfriend. My story accurately portrays these feelings. However, after critique I found that I need to place more words and hints to better show that the women is pregnant as well as returning from a trip. There is also some faces that need to be manipulated to better show the certain feelings I am trying to portray.

Concept: Portray a man and his girlfriend meeting after her travels. Show the woman is pregnant. Finally, show the women getting hit by a car

 

Special Edition: Lipstick & Dynamite

A showing of "Lipstick and Dynamite" was shown Tuesday at 1:15pm at Saint Xavier University.

The show was a documentary about Women Professional Wrestling focusing mostly on early Women Wrestlers. It was interesting seeing how women were portrayed back in the mid-twentieth century. Even in the ring, the women had to portray the lady-like image. Women Wrestlers were wearing dresses, had their hair fixed, and more while they wrestled in their matches. This is ironic because women were labeled as inferior, weak, belong in the kitchen, cook dinner, and take care of the kids while the men work. However, these women were the start of something big. These women did not follow the typically image. They were reinventing themselves. Some men called them "pigs" others had much respect for these women. Today, we see women wrestlers that look anything, but lady-like. If anything they look tough, but slutty. The image of women wrestlers have changed throughout the year. "The Great Moolah," was as some of the other ladies put it, "one tough broad." She was a women wrestling world champion for numerous years. She even eventually began managing other women wrestlers and training. She was a major competitor against Billy Wolfe, a women wrestler promoter. For the longest time, he ruled the sport. If you wanted to be big, then you had to go with Billy Wolfe. Billy seemed stereotypically manager. He took a giant percentage of the women's earnings, and even became sexually involved with many of them. This is because he had the power and used that to get what he wanted out of the women wrestlers. Eventually, "the Great Moolah" ran him into the ground. She even started the current WWF that we see on television today. Many of the women wrestlers back then got there start from being the "pusher" on a rollerball team or were recruited from the carnival. These women were not ordinary, they were much more. They were women wrestlers.

Week 8

Assignment: Take pictures that'll visually communicate our story posted in Week 7. Take those photos and story and transfer them into a comic strip art format.

Concept: Use the story posted in week 7 and make it into a comic strip art with 9-12 panels that'll effectively communicate my story.

Craft: Using photoshop, I'll create photo images and manipulate them into a comic strip art format.

Composition:I took a some photos of two friends. I took a lot of close up shots to capture their emotions because my story using a lot of emotion. In addition, I went around and took some action shots to portray the crash slide, where the woman gets hit by the car.

Week 7

Assignment: Create a story 

Concept: Based off of these three points create a story using your imagination.

1. One person waiting

2. One person traveling

3. One person has a package for the other

Gate 2

The man waited eagerly at Gate 2. It was a bright sunny winter morning. The man checked his watch it was 11:43am. He placed his hands back into his black leather jacket. Fifteen more minutes till her plan arrive.

The woman was listening to her ipod then noticed the fasten seat belt light went off. A smile came across the brunettes face as she took the ear plugs out of her ears and fastened her belt. The woman looked at her silver watch. It was 11:43am. The plane began its descent.

The man looked over his shoulder and seen an old man and old women in their electric wheel chair roll up. The old man yelled at his wife asking her if she remember to lock the door and turned off the oven when they left the house. The old woman replied, “What!” The man repeated himself followed by the old woman replying the same word. The man went back to checking his watch. People began walking down the main hall.

The woman got off the plan and grabbed her one carry on. She walked faster and faster as every second went by. She was looking up and noticed she was close to Gate 2. She continued walking faster. The excitement was flowing in her body. She saw her man. It has been two months since she saw him. “Hey,” she yelled. The man looked up. She began running and jumped into his arms. “Hey,” he replied slowly with excitement. “It’s been so long I missed you, she said. “Me to. I am happy to see you,” he stated.

The women reached into her bag. “I got you the leather jacket you wanted” The man eyes widened. “AWESOME!”

“I have a second surprise too.” The man’s eyebrows rose with curiosity. “I am pregnant. Were having twins,” she laughed with happiness as she jumped into his arms. The man didn’t move. He slowly hugged her back. “Oooo, cool,” he said. There was not much excitement. The man quickly smiled an attempt to save an argument next to the old loud woman and man due to his lack of excitement after hearing his woman was pregnant. He said, “This is so exciting, I am going to be a dad.”

“Yeah, you are. Let’s get to the car. I could use a shower” She began skipping ahead as he slowly walked. The exit door opened. She skipped out to the street then turned around at him while walking backwards. “It’s beautiful out. I love being back home,” she looked at him. “Come on, lighten up. Aren’t you,” a yellow Volkswagen beetle suddenly hit her.

The man’s face went blank and eyebrows rose. “OOOO,” he said softly as he ran to her.