The Cereal Crisis

 Instructions

you can use any software you like, or you can use a pencil or pen and paper. If you choose to do this as a hand-drawn exercise, please ensure that you adjust your images so they appear crisp and properly corrected in your post.

Storyboard with Composition Variations. Draw a 3-panel story comic (stick figures and simple shapes are fine). Scenario: A person faces a problem and then a solution (could be as simple as “spilled coffee on papers -> friend helps -> all good”). Now create two different compositions of the same scenes: one that emphasizes the conflict dramatically and one that downplays it. For example, in the conflict scene (coffee spill), dramatic version: show the person small surrounded by huge looming coffee spill using a diagonal angle (imbalance, lots of mess, maybe tilted horizon). For a tamer version: maybe a centered, flat angle shot where the spill looks minor. In the resolution scene, dramatic version might center the two friends hugging with lots of whitespace (highlighting them), whereas a less emphatic one might have them off to side with other stuff around. Show how balance, scale, and whitespace choices change the feel: one comic might make the spill seem like a big dramatic deal, the other like a small hiccup. This shows how you, as the “director” of the scene, use composition to either crank up or dial down the perceived intensity of story moments. Discuss which better tells the story you want (if it’s meant to be comedic, maybe the over-dramatization helps; if it’s a casual slice-of-life, the toned down might fit). This will reinforce the idea that how you show something affects how the audience interprets it.

Comic 

 

This comic that I created for my second exercise was created with a mixture of Photoshop and illustrator. In this comic you can see our main character eating his preferred meal, being cereal. In this story you get to see a very relatable story that I'm pretty sure every has gone through at least once in their lives, and this is forgetting to buy a full milk. In my 3 panel story you get to see the expressions and scenery changes of our character coming to a very tragic realization that. There is no milk, for his cereal. The absolute worst possible outcome when it comes down to eating any cereal of any kind. 

There are many reasons on why I created this story, mainly because I went through it just a couple days ago, but that is besides the point. When this usually happens to me I try to not through the fridge out the window, but I gently go to my nearest supermarket and get a new milk carton and continue with my day.