Today in class we started out with a short presentation on the three acts of comic strips. The first act or panel one establishes the context and answers who, where, what, when, and why. The second act or second and third panels sets up the goals of the characters and the conflicts that are stopping them from reaching these goals. The third act or final panel resolves the story or conflict and delivers the punch line. I have almost had this idea of the acts in mind when creating my own comics but it was good to have them put out in front of me as a solid template to follow in the future. The rest of class was independent work time to start laying out ideas and sketches for our professor comic. We met in groups and bounced ideas and stories off of each other. I tried to keep the three act plan in mind with my ideas but I know that some of them don't quite follow the template. I also kept my drawings loose so I could get ideas down quickly and not get bogged down in details that don’t matter at this point. Most of my classmates stories and my own ideas are showing professors in a negative light, and involve unreasonable or not well organized professors. I think this is because these stories are the ones that stand out to us the most. This idea of the bad professor is one that more people can quickly relate too easily. A story about a supportive professor isn't quite as funny, but I did try and come up with a few ideas where students are the butt end of the joke. Number eleven particularly works like this.
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