Our Comic coming to Life in Comic Life

Our Comic is phenomenal! I love it. Chris and I have not fully completed it, but just looking at what we have gives me such pride. This is the greatest thing I have ever done. Watching this comic take shape is really wonderful. I can definitely see using this in the classroom. Teenagers will have so much fun, and it is a great source to inspire imagination.

We have split many of the roles in editing and producing the final product. Chris came up with the original concept, story boarded it out, and came up with the original dialogue. What I brought was tweaking little things here and there. I added certain adjustments to the dialogue or the setting, certain actions. I am the voice of what is practical, within the technical terms. Here I am referring to what can we photographed, where, and why. I also brought in my good friend Bill to do all the shooting.

After all the photographs were taken we sat at my mac and through looking at the storyboard, the outline and the rough "screenplay" we began to place images on the page. We would take turns manning the computer. Chris would do a few pages, then turn it over to me, then back forth and so on. It was a great joint effort, because no matter who was at the computer we were sharing ideas and together deciding what looked the finest. It got to the point where one of us did not want to get up from the seat because we were having so much fun. But we were both absolute gentlemen and it was shared equally. I must say though, Chris wrote the bulk of the material. I did shine at certain moments, but he is the master scholar. Most of the stuff I wrote quivered in comparison to his epic phrases.

We are about 90% done, but we have still had two set backs. One rather minuscule, and the other major. When we were looking at the images we had taken, some of them were not as appropriate as we had anticipated so we had to re-shoot some things. This was not bad, it proved quite funny actually because people walking by asked "what the hell are you guys doing?" The major set back was the loss of 5 solid pages of content. We had been saving a fairly good amount, but we held back the more we got into the habit of moving quickly. Then, all of a sudden, comic life closed. This occurrence has happened before, but never this detrimental. So after that we had been working a good 5 hours straight and we decided to finish another day. That was rather frustrating but it could have been much worse, and for that not happening I am grateful.