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Objectives
The third topic explores the elements needed to make the story you want to tell dynamic and interesting, and we will do this through the tool of creative writing.
We will understand how to give life to the various characters in the story, trying to find elements and characteristics that best represent them, to give the characters in the story a real soul.
- Order and readability are better than beautiful: this lesson helps us to understand the use of drawing within narrative dynamics. We move on to aspects of drawing, namely visual perception, symmetry, composition and the arrangement of elements - drawings and texts - within the vignette and the panel.
- About the readability of the panel, the page and the general fluency: understanding how to compose the necessary elements of the story in the correct form. All the elements of the drawing must be kept together, from the human figure to its expressiveness, from the acting of the body to the depth and the use of light and shadow to make the drawings alive and believable.
- Signs and colour: aesthetics at the service of legibility. We are at the final stage of writing our comic strip story and we have to finalise the drawings, calibrate the ink review and conclude with a colouring that can generate emotions and be faithful to the cultural heritage elements included in the story.
The following video explains the objectives of this topic:
Lesson 1. Order and readability are better than beautifulClick to collapse
The following table shows all the materials preprared for the teacher to learn (T2L) and for the teacher to take them to the classroom (T2T, S2P) for Lesson 1 of Topic 3. Telling stories using signs. The description of the different types of materials (T2L, T2T, S2P) can be found here. For each material, teachers can find in this table: its description the student workload and where the student works. Additionally, recommendations about what to do in the classroom are included (remember that one lesson corresponds to one class of the teacher with her/his students). Follow the links in the table to discover what O-City has prepared for you:
Lesson |
Type |
Materials |
Description |
Student workload |
Where the student work? |
What to do in class |
1 Order and readability are better than beautiful |
T2L/T2T |
comics T3.L1. Start to draw in details (lesson content in pdf, video, video content in pdf) |
Focus on drawing, places, interior and exterior settings |
15' |
at home (flip-teaching) or in the classroom |
Solve doubts about previous Activity A.T2.L3.1.
Explain video T3.L1 or solve doubts (if flip-teaching)
Explain Activity A.T3.L1.1. |
T2L/T2T |
Pill T3.L1.1. Examples (video) |
Examples of comics about cultural heritage |
5' |
at home (flip-teaching) or in the classroom |
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T2T |
Activity A.T3.L1.1. Draw in details your settings (video, video content in pdf, activity factsheet in pdf) |
Identify the main characteristics of your setting using real references and go in details with the drawing |
2h |
at home |
Table 8. Materials provided for Lesson 1. Order and readability are better than beautiful of Topic 3. Telling stories using signs.
Lesson 2. About the readability of the panel, the page and the general fluency Click to collapse
The following table shows all the materials preprared for the teacher to learn (T2L) and for the teacher to take them to the classroom (T2T, S2P) for Lesson 2 of Topic 3. Telling stories using signs. The description of the different types of materials (T2L, T2T, S2P) can be found here. For each material, teachers can find in this table: its description, the student workload and where the student works. Additionally, recommendations about what to do in the classroom are included (remember that one lesson corresponds to one class of the teacher with her/his students). Follow the links in the table to discover what O-City has prepared for you:
Lesson |
Type |
Materials |
Description |
Student workload |
Where the student work? |
What to do in class |
2 About the readability of the panel, the page and the general fluency |
T2L/T2T |
Video T3.L2. Focus on drawing characters (lesson content in pdf, video, video content in pdf) |
How to draw characters |
15' |
at home (flip-teaching) or in the classroom |
Solve doubts about previous Activity A.T2.L3.1.
Explain video T3.L2 or solve doubts (if flip-teaching)
Explain Activitiy A.T3.L1.1. |
T2T |
Activity A.T3.L2.1. How to compose all the elements (video, video content in pdf, activity factsheet in pdf) |
Draws, words, settings how everything stands together |
4h |
at home |
Table 9. Materials provided for Lesson 2. About the readability of the panel, the page and general smoothness of Topic 3. Telling stories using signs.
Lesson 3. Signs and colourClick to collapse
The following table shows all the materials preprared for the teacher to learn (T2L) and for the teacher to take them to the classroom (T2T, S2P) for Lesson 3 of Topic 3.Telling stories using signs. The description of the different types of materials (T2L, T2T, S2P) can be found here. For each material, teachers can find in this table: its description, the student workload and where the student works. Additionally, recommendations about what to do in the classroom are included (remember that one lesson corresponds to one class of the teacher with her/his students). Follow the links in the table to discover what O-City has prepared for you:
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Type |
Materials |
Description |
Student workload |
Where the student work? |
What to do in class |
3 Signs and colour |
T2L/T2T |
Video T3.L3. Colours and Emotions (lesson content in pdf, video, video content in pdf) |
Using colours to evoke emotions |
15' |
at home (flip-teaching) or in the classroom |
Solve doubts about previous Activity A.T3.L2.1.
Explain video T3.L3 or solve doubts (if flip-teaching)
Explain activity A.T3.L3.1.
|
T2T |
Activity A.T3.L3.1. Finalise the work (video, video content in pdf, activity factsheet in pdf) |
Finalise the story with colours and layout |
2h |
at home |
Table 10. Materials provided for Lesson 3. Signs and colour of Topic 3. Telling stories using signs.