During the spring exhibition 2024 we made Comic books, that were a historical fiction based off an event we were given. This blog post will follow the creation of the comic, and the night of the exhibition. The first step of the comic creation was the research about ww1. We did a lot of in class work, one of our main sources of information was a video called “Canada, the story of us”. At the same time as our note taking. We learned about comic creation, and the type of frames that good comics have. Some of those frames included long shots, close ups, bleed panels and reverse. After we had completed all of our research, we were prepared to start creating our storyboards. My storyboards had very basic drawings, but did show the story, and plan out what images I would need. Once I had completed the storyboard, I started the creation of my comic. As I am not talented at drawing whatsoever I opted for tracing instead. I used an AI comic generator for base images which I would trace, and then alter. While this did make it a lot easier, I still had put 30+ hours of work into this comic. In total I had 20 frames and every single type of panel that I needed. My comic was in a 1950s style, which made it harder to try make all the drawings look like they had the same style. Once I had some of the images finished, I started the process of colouring. Once all of my images were completed, and put in the comic with captions and extra effects, it was two days before the exhibition. The day of the exhibition, we spent the class making cardboard trench paneling and preparing small other things for the exhibition.
Once school had finished, we prepared to setup the exhibition. We were located in the cafeteria, and had from under the stair all the way to the stairs by the gymnasium. In that area we had tables set up, and decorated them with some coloured paper and some plants and sticks. Once our area were set up, we were given some time to eat, and then the chaos began at five. It was a very slow start, but it was consistently going increasing. Once we had open the gates It felt as if most of the crowd was quite impressed by all of our comics. This led to some nice conversations about the production process of these comics. After a the guest had left, we started the takedown process. It was a relatively fast clean up, which led to end of this exhibtion