PROJECT FIVE: COMIC LIFE

Comic Life let's you create page layouts for almost anything. You can design a yearbook, a newsletter, a comic book, a children's book, or even a magazine.

For some cool examples, go to: 

National Education Technology Standards

1. Creativity and Innovation

a. Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas products, or processes

b. Create original works as a means of personal or group expression

5. Digital Citizenship

b. Exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity

6. Technology Operations and Concepts

d. Transfer current knowledge to learning of new technologies

For this project, you have two choices:

1. Comic Book: For this option you will have to write your own story. Remember that all stories have basic elements. You need to develop characters, have a setting, a plot, climax, and a resolution. Your story must have narrative and dialogue. For pictures, you can use characters or random pictures from the Internet (e.g. Sponge Bob, Superman, etc.) but they must make sense with your story. If you're an artist, you can draw your own characters. 

You can collaborate with another person for this project if you are the characters of your story. Yes, you can capture photos from Comic Life; you can act out the scenes and become the characters you create. For a really cool example of a story using captured pictures, go to Comic Life in Education and scroll down to see "Weird Tales" created by a school. I will need to see a written draft of your story before you begin using Comic Life.

Make sure you tell a story! Include narrative [Once upon a time, there was...] and dialogue using the dialogue balloons. 

2. Magazine: For this option, you will design a travel magazine. You need to pick a city anywhere in the world and create a magazine to inform travelers of the places they can visit while vacationing there. 

General Requirements: 

• All projects must be a minimum of six pages. If you choose to work with a partner for option one (you must be the characters of the story) then you need to have ten pages combined.
• There must be continuity. You should be consistent with the style, the colors, and the fonts you use. 
• Respect layouts. Have a dominant photo on each page.
• Use photos that are medium or large. Don't use blurry pictures.
• Don't waste space.
• Don't trap empty space within elements.
• Use correct English language conventions (correct spelling, grammar, syntax). 
• If you are doing a travel magazine, you must cite your sources. For instance, if you want people to visit the Hollywood Walk of Fame while visiting Los Angeles, then you must provide a brief history of the place. The source where you get the information from must be credited in MLA style. You must also either paraphrase or quote the text... do not plagiarize.
• You will turn in your project via EdModo. Once you're completely done, you need to go to: File>Print>PDF>Save as PDF. You will turn in the PDF file to EdModo. 

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