Project #2: The Art of the Storyboard
Discussion Questions:
View the Boondocks official site under the tab “behind the scenes” to view the storyboard from episode 103.
Think about and discuss the way the rough sketches are arranged and what you would add or take away.
Have students listen to 5min NPR pod cast about Jacky Ormes and view a copy of the comic strip described on the pod cast.
Review and discuss her website as well.
Discuss what Jackie Ormes’s comic strips and “The Boondocks” have in common.
Have students interview an elder in their community asking social, economic and politically relevant questions.
Show Kara Walker's artwork and discuss her themes in art making.
Discuss how Kara Walker tells stories through art making.
Activity:
Create movable 17-panel storyboard that illustrates the “day in the life of you” that includes past references into today’s cultural context or describes the evolution of a social issue. This storyboard must be done in rough sketch form and have the capabilities to be changed and or rearranged. The story should include dialogue that addresses historical, social and or economic issues. Think about the way in which you arrange the panels to tell your story and how contextual information contributes to the story.
Materials: sketchbook, drawing paper, india ink or pen & ink set, sharpie markers, graphite, ruler
Assessment: How well were the students able to illustrate a day in their lives through illustrations and contextual information? How successful were the students at addressing historical, social and or economic issues.
Discussion Questions:
- What is a storyboard and how is it used to address social & economic issues?
- What is the history behind creating a storyboard?
- Definition of a Storyboard: A panel or series of panels of rough sketches outlining the scene sequence and major changes of action or plot in a production to be shot on film, video or in a comic strip or animated cartoon.
View the Boondocks official site under the tab “behind the scenes” to view the storyboard from episode 103.
Think about and discuss the way the rough sketches are arranged and what you would add or take away.
Have students listen to 5min NPR pod cast about Jacky Ormes and view a copy of the comic strip described on the pod cast.
Review and discuss her website as well.
Discuss what Jackie Ormes’s comic strips and “The Boondocks” have in common.
- What makes these similarities apparent visually?
- How has the social context changed overtime and what is still truth today?
Have students interview an elder in their community asking social, economic and politically relevant questions.
- Such as how has life changed for African Americans since you were a young and what is still the same?
- What kind of life middle-class and working class American have when you were young, what changes are evident now?
- How has the role of women changed? What are the drawbacks of these changes?
Show Kara Walker's artwork and discuss her themes in art making.
Discuss how Kara Walker tells stories through art making.
- What is Kara Walker’s objective in depicting African-American history?
- Compare and contrast Kara Walker’s work with Jackie Ormes.
- What is different about story telling through comics versus fine art?
Activity:
Create movable 17-panel storyboard that illustrates the “day in the life of you” that includes past references into today’s cultural context or describes the evolution of a social issue. This storyboard must be done in rough sketch form and have the capabilities to be changed and or rearranged. The story should include dialogue that addresses historical, social and or economic issues. Think about the way in which you arrange the panels to tell your story and how contextual information contributes to the story.
Materials: sketchbook, drawing paper, india ink or pen & ink set, sharpie markers, graphite, ruler
Assessment: How well were the students able to illustrate a day in their lives through illustrations and contextual information? How successful were the students at addressing historical, social and or economic issues.