I CANNOT DRAW!!! Were my first thoughts when I heard of this project. And this project so-to-speak was making a graphic novel. Ya that’s a lotttt of drawing…
Driving Question 🏎️:
How can researching the historical significance of World War I inform and enhance the storytelling in a graphic novel I create?
This was our driving question and yes our comic was based solely on WW1 and different events that had occurred throughout it. And to answer our driving question I feel that by researching the history on WW1 that it can enhance our storytelling by using more evidence behind what our story may be about making the story more interesting and historically correct. I also feel that to inform the reader of actual events during WW1 would enhance the story effectively as well.
Launch 🚀
The launch of this project was very interesting and kinda nerve wrecking. We had 24 hours to make an 8 panel minimum comic and I know that doesn’t sound like a lot but we still had to plan the story, find images to trace, actually end up tracing them and put them in a book and repeat process! I am going to be honest with you I didn’t finish it… ya so basically you can see what I mean:
Ahhhh it burns my eyes! Stop looking at it! In my defence I had soccer practice that night and I know that’s a horrible excuse but I need to say something that will make you believe that I am not that bad, but I really am that bad…
This was the activity we had done to introduce the fact we would be making a larger version of this and a proper fully thought out story.
Mentor Text
This was the graphic novel we all read that I envied very hard. Throughout this reading we had activities to do such as 4 W’s, reflections and other things.
Case Studies:
These case studies are something we did whilst Mr. Harris was away and he left us with randomized groups and a case to study along with information given to us. I was in the group of “Caring for the wounded” along with:
We did technically have Eloise in our group as well but she was away for the starting day and presenting day, so it was just us. I was proud of what my group put together and our notes on it. We talked about how important the people caring for the wounded were and what kinds of people would care for them including, stretcher bearers, nurses and dentists. Here is a short video of our keynote presentation:
Graphic Novel?
For our graphic novel we had many expectations and limitations. This graphic novel was to be all about WW1 based around how Canada was apart of it showing how our country transformed and was looked at completely differently by the rest of the world. We also had many things we had to include in this comic, we had to do a minimum of 20 panels so we would include all of these in that 20.