Monday 6 th July Title Superhero comic strips

Monday 6 th July Title: Superhero comic strips How does an artist convey meaning in a comic strip? Use the example on the next slide to help you identify the key features.

Identify the key features:

Lesson objectives: • To understand the features of a comic strip. • To use these features in a comic strip.

How does an artist convey meaning in a comic strip? Ideas • Movement lines around characters • Thought bubbles • Speech bubbles • Caption boxes to signal time changes • Onomatopoeia • Exaggerate facial expressions

Scenario • All staff and students are trapped inside St John Fisher school. Not only that but they are immobile - frozen in ice! …but no job is too big for your superhero! THINK How would the superhero you created last time save the people of SJF? How would their special powers work to free the people from their ice hell?

Next, you are going to tell the story of how your superhero saved SJF in a comic strip!

Creating your own comic strip Story elements: It must have… üa grid with a minimum of 6 boxes ücaption boxes to signal time changes and introduce or explain action üspeech and thought bubbles üOnomatopoeia üMovement lines around characters • You could do this on the computer or draw by hand

Now what? Miss Gregg would love to see your comic strips – take a picture or send me your file to (this is not SPo. W but I would love to see how your superhero manages to save the school!) misshgregg@sjfchs. org. uk