Week 9

Assignment- To print out our 9 -12 pictures of our storyboard and get into groups. While, in our groups, we are supposed to discuss the likes, dislikes, strategies and problems with our cartoon strip.
Craft- Basicall just print out the pictures individually so we could write our thoughts, suggestions, and ideas on the back of them. The idea is to be able to get a grasp on how well our pictures/drawings depict the story we are trying to tell.
Concept- My concept is basically to tell a story about a boring delivery man that has a rare and exciting moment in his everyday life. My overall objective in this concept is to make sure my story is cohernt, percise, and to the point so that other people can read/look at the pictures and be able to read it easily.
Composition- For the most part, my story makes sense to others. However, I need to add maybe one or two more drawings toward the end to complete some thoughts and for some transition perhaps. I am interested in how using only 2 colors will turn out!

Week 8

Assignment: Develop a story to put into a "comic strip."

Craft: I ended up drawing nine photos for the comic strip. I was going to take pictures but I found that for my story, it was going to be a little easier just to draw them. I will also use photoshop to add color to these photos.

















Concept: I was trying to accomplish telling a story that I developed. In order to do that, I had to draw these pictures that could be incorporated into my story. These pictures that I drew help communicate my story. I was pretty happy with how my drawings turned out. I thought it was going to be a lot harder to draw them, but I was able to envision them in my head. Once I did that, putting them on paper was easy. Also, I finally was able to develop an ending to my story. It wasn't easy to come up with an ending, but I felt that a few elements were lacking when I told my story in class.



Composition: I drew specific pictures to help convey the story. I am going to use a lot of bright colors to try and catch the reader's eye. I think the final result will turn out quite nice, but I am intrested to see how I can utilize the tools in photoshop to be able to color these images that I drew. I'm excited to see how this particular project is going to turn out.

Story

Assignment: To develop a story with twists and turns involving one person waiting, one person traveling, and a package that is arriving for one of the two people. 

1 person traveling: ordinary delivery man

1 person waiting: sharp guy in a nice suit

package for waiting person: 

Concept: The story starts out with a delivery man about to get done with his shift in upstate New York. He is an ordinary man whose job is not all that exciting. It has been a day on the job just like any other day so the delivery man is not expecting much. He is ready to return home to his wife from a long day at work. He has a small envelope that has the address 10601 South Tripp on it. He makes his way to Tripp Street and he arrives at a huge mansion. As he is walking up the steps he finds himself admiring the wealth and sophisticated aspects of the mansion and he starts to wonder if it was perhaps someone famous who lives there. He rings the doorbell and a man with a pin-stripped Armani suit answers the door. The delivery man hands him the envelope. Without even opening the envelope, the sharply dressed man at the door says "Today is your lucky day." The delivery guy is kind of thrown off and asks "Why?" The man at the door says "I have a package arriving in 3 days to this address. I'll give you and extra $500 on the spot if you delivery the package after your shift late at night so no one will see you." The delivery man asks "What's in the package?" The man responds "I can't tell you because it will put both of our lives in danger." Now the delivery guy knows there is something weird and wrong going on. However, he also feels that his job is so uninteresting that this could be a chance to spice it up. The delivery man is kind of upset with himself because he feels like he has underachieved for the better part of his adult life. The delivery man has always been kind of a risk taker and it has been a while since he got the opportunity to take one. The man at the door slaps a $100 bill in the delivery man's hands and asks "Are you in?" The delivery man thinks for a couple of seconds and says "Yes." He leaves the mansion and goes home to his wife. He does not let anyone know of the events to come. 3 nights later, the delivery man returns to the mansion with a package. He has tried really hard to keep himself from opening the package. He rings the doorbell and the same man answers the doorbell. He hands him the package and gets the $500 from him. (I'm still working on the ending of the story.)