This is an additional ACE activity for this term that our teacher gave us during an impromptu home-learning because all the Hwa Chong teachers had to go to some meeting at Nanyang Girls'.
We had to create a comic strip to convey a message.
As you can see, this is 'Scared?', my comic strip. Basically it is about being scared. In the first 2 squares, it is as if the boy is going to fight some ferocious animal. However in the end, it turns out that he is scared of a little chicken. The plot is basically to boy trying to be brave and fails miserably, and then still trying to save face, boasting to his dad that he was just a little scared when he has already wet his pants in fear.
After creating the comic, we had to answer these few questions.
1. Why did you choose the different pictures or background?
2. How do they contribute to the elements (plot, setting, characterization) of your narrative?
3.How did you make use of the different elements to contribute to the theme you have chosen?
These are my answers:
1. I chose my background because it was the most suitable one. It looked more like a place where there were supposed to be chickens, because one cannot expect chickens to appear in the midst of skyscrapers in the city centre. The background looked like a scene out of a farm or part of a forest or hunting ground where there was wild chicken.
2.The background is basically the setting for the narrative, which is where the boy finds the chicken. However, it does not really contribute to the plot, but instead just makes the whole story more realistic, because as I have said earlier, you cannot have this story happening in the city centre.
3.In question 2, I have already explained how the setting contributes to the theme I have chosen. For your information, the theme I have chosen is 'pride comes before a fall', as the boy is boastful and tries to show off by trying to scare off the chicken but ends up being chased by the chicken and wetting himself in the process thus embarrassing himself in front of his father. This is how the plot contributes to the theme too. For characterization, I have chosen a boy to scare off the chicken. Actually, kids are more appropriate, hence I could have chosen a girl, but I have chosen a boy for personal reasons. In the last box, I made the boys eyes wide and his pose as such to make him look as if he was justifying himself to his father. I made the father's eyes half-closed to make him look as if he did not believe what the boy said, because the boy obviously was not just 'a little scared' as he actually wet his pants.
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