This is a slideshow will assist you with your comic creation and analysis task.

1. Create a Comic! Creating a comic strip of a scene in the play

2. How can we remember what “plot” is? Freytag’s elements:

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4. Task Products: Comic strip (3-6 panels) Analysis Embedded in edmodo Collated: An online comic to help people reading or studying the play understand the plot. Pressure’s on!

5. Task Activity 1: Create a comic strip representing plot of the play in a different form What do we mean by representing? Taking the ideas of a text in one form and using another form to present these ideas

6. Task: activity 1 What are the essential elements to include? • 3 – 6 panels • pairs – points for appropriate water hole behaviour! • 1 scene • pick out the IMPORTANT elements • what elements of plot are in your scene?

7. Task: Activity 1 What to use? Up to you! ReadWriteThink Comic Creator: http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/comic/ ToonDoo: www.toondoo.com Just make sure you can save it or print it to a file somehow!

8. Task: Activity 1 What do we need to think about when we make a comic? Generic conventions: The features which are common to the comic book genre: block colours, caricature drawings, lack of detail, speech bubbles, frames, sequence. Important elements of the plot: Freytag’s descriptors – how do we create tension? how do we convey the mood? how do we show conflict? how can we demonstrate a resolution? So, consider how you will use the generic conventions to demonstrate these important elements of plot!

9. Activity 2 Analysis: For 3 elements: why did you choose this visual feature to represent that element of the play’s plot? Guidelines on handout and edmodo

10. Activity 2 Analysis: Visual feature? Classroom backdrop. Why this particular visual representation? Working class, simplicity, inadequacy? 3. Generic conventions? Lines, frame, caricature, colour 4. Element of plot? Exposition: introduction to the demographic and attitudes of Blackrock 5. Representation in drama? Stage directions

11. Activity 2 Example: Scene 1 Visual element chosen: Classroom backdrop Generic convention COLOUR: Grey, black, brown. Contributes to classroom looking drab- indicates working class school. Introducing us to the demographic.

12. Visual Element: Classroom Backdrop Genreic Convention FRAME: lets us know that there is a powerful and short scene or event which introduces the play. Generic Convention CARICATURE: Contributes to our introduction to characters-we get the sense that characters and attitudes are as stereotypical as the figures.

13. Pairs and Scenes: REMEMBER! Bonus points for positive water hole behaviour!