Topic 5: Narrative- Packaged Narrative Due Dates

Packaged Narrative In-Depth Project

• Create a narrative in the form of an 8-Page Zine (Edition of 5)
• Create 3 small hand-held sculptures that expand the narrative. 
• Create a structural package (a container) for your zine edition and sculptures.

Please Note: The zine, hand-held sculptures, and package/container must all be thoughtfully considered and must all work together to drive your narrative.


Due Dates 
Due Tue, Nov 21st  (worth 20 points total)

• 10 points- Completed all original artwork necessary for your 8-page zine.
• 10 points- Complete your zine mock-up showing pagination and structure/orientation.

Due Tue, Nov 28th (worth 30 points total)

Progress Check! 90% complete (90% means you think the work is done, but we probably won't agree)

• 10 points- Bring in your 5 printouts for the zine edition (they don't have to be folded yet)
• 10 points- Bring in your 3 hand-held sculptures (only small details should remain unresolved)
• 10 points- Bring in your Container/Structural Package and show us how it all goes together.

Due Thur, Nov 30th (worth 50 points)
Your complete, resolved, fully-assembled packaged narrative must be ready for critique at start of class (come early to install). Please remember to consider presentation- how will your project engage with our environment (the classroom)? How will the zines be distributed? 

You project requires a minimum of the following:

• Completed edition of 5 zines.
• 3 Small hand-held sculptures
• The structural package/container they go in.

Rubric

• 20 points- Overall cohesiveness of the work- Are all the individual elements necessary for a complete understanding of the work, and do they all support the overall narrative? Can the audience easily interpret your intended narrative. 
• 20 points- Technical Competence of the work- No distracting craft issues. All craft decisions support the  narrative. Print quality supports the content/communicative goals.
• 10 points- Professionalism- Met deadline and minimum requirements. Work is finished and fully-resolved. Presented in a professional manner. 

WARP: Topic 5, (Narrative) Paratactical Incongruencies

In class today, we asked you to create three paratactical sentences using this structure:

• I believe in "_____________".
• I "verb" + "subject".
• The "noun" + (verb) "adjective".

You were then put into a group of 3 - 4 people, each of whom had a sentence.  You were asked to order your paratactic poem, and were then given an in-class assignment:

1) Each person must make a list of 5 mood words relating to their sentence.
2) Each person must make a list of 5 material qualities relating to their sentence.
3) Renegotiate your poem based on the mood words and material qualities.
4) The group must decide the narrative/content/story, and storyboard 3 different possibilities.  Each storyboard has three thumbnails, one for each sentence, for a total of 9 thumbnails in total.

This exercise will culminate in a comic/narrative that is due on Thursday morning at 10 AM.  Each group member is responsible for one 8.5" x 11" panel (2D--this size requirement is strict), which should have a correlating thumbnail in your chosen storyboard.  The three/four panels together will be a complete comic/narrative.

Topic Five: Telling Stories (Narrative), First Reading and Outside Visits

In our introductory discussion for this topic, we identified the different ways we receive and create stories in our lives.  We also came up with some essential conditions necessary for a story or narrative to exist or be told.  These were: 1) a shared context, 2) a tone (attitude, mood, volume, etc.), 3) an audience, 4) time, and 5) proximity. 

Reading

Your initial reading for this topic unit is a consideration of "Comics Poetry" (some use the term "Poetry Comics" instead); you've been asked to read and respond to an essay by Alexander Rothman, cartoonist, poet, and editor, which was published in the Comics Bulletin last year. 

The essay is located here.  Your response form is located here.  Your response is due Monday, November 13, at 11:59 PM.

Outside Visit

You will have some options for your outside visit for this unit.  The response form is located here. You will choose ONE out of the following:

1) Miami Book Fair, Destination Comics (panel discussions), November 18 - 19, MDC Wolfson Campus, Downtown Miami.  The schedule is located here.  There are many different panel discussions to choose from--you only need to attend one for this visit requirement; your MDC ID should get you into the fair for free.

2) Poetry, Art and Community: Tuesday, November 14, 7 - 9 PM, Vizcaya: 

"Join us as we celebrate Vizcaya in poetry and art with the FIU Honors College course “Poetry Art Community” designed by Professors Richard Blanco and John William Bailly.  The evening features Blanco and renowned poets Caridad Moro, Carlos Pintado, Nikki Moustaki, and Michael Hettich debuting their original Vizcaya-inspired poems in the Courtyard of the Main House. Their voices will be accompanied by photographs of Vizcaya by FIU students. The enchantment continues with pop-up poetry readings by students throughout the gardens as you stroll under the stars and the crescent moon.  Tickets $5. Light refreshments available for purchase."

The above option will allow you to visit Vizcaya at night, to hear renowned local poets, one of whom read a poem at one of Barack Obama's Inagurations (Richard Blanco), and to mingle with, and see the work of, students from another college in town.

Other assignments will be given to you on Tuesday, November 14.