Learning Goals

• Learn how to transform interviews into sequential art
• Learn how to create comic strips
• Learn how to storyboard
• Be able to make my own comics after my senior project is over
• Discover new artists/comics that I can draw inspiration from

General Work Plan

Ongoing:

• Reading comic books/graphic novels
• Researching information about the partition of India/colonization of India
• Talking to my relatives about the partition (not only my relatives who I am interviewing but also my younger family members who were impacted by the event as well)

Week 1: 

• Contacting my relatives who I want to interview
  • or contacting relatives who know the relatives I want to interview (since I don’t have all of their contact information
• Conducting interviews with my family members via phone calls, skype, and possibly facetime
  • Transcribing/taking notes on the important information I learned afterward
• Doing the bulk of my research about the Partition of India

Week 2:

• Figure out the plot of my comic book and/or comic strips
  • What parts of the interview do I want to be part of my final project? What parts might I leave out?
  • What is the story/stories I want to tell?
  • What do I want to highlight about this historical event?
  • Are there any quotes I should put in?
  • What do people already know about the partition of India? What might they have never learned before?
• Begin to storyboard

Week 3:

• Finish the first draft of my storyboard and work on revising it
  • Show it to James, my family, my friends and see what parts work and don’t work
  • Do I have all of the parts I want to include in the story? Do I want to add or get rid of anything?
    • Is any essential information missing?
  • Does the order of this story make sense? Should I move any scenes around?
• Finalize my storyboard and prepare to start creating the real comic

Week 4:

• Begin outlining the comic and drawing everything (don’t use color yet, that will be a later step)
  • I should focus on making the bulk of the comic in this week

Week 5:

• Finish making the comic
  • Start coloring everything in
• Begin the front cover

Week 6:

• Finish the front cover
• Finish the Back Cover
• Bind the book together
• Possibly make copies?

What a Day Might Look Like:

• Look through my interview documents
• Decide what interview I am going to make a story about
  • see what quotes I could use
• Create the plot of the story
• Storyboard the first draft of it

Documentation plan

I will document the experience of creating this comic, along with my sketches, notes, and parts of my final comic on a google slideshow. I love using google slides and I think it will be a nice way to show both my written reflections and my artistic work side by side. Each week, I will dedicate at least one slide to my reflection(s) and at least one slide to the comic book progress I am making.