Graphic Novel Scripts

How I Graded Your Scripts:

- Out of 4 points

- Complete script: You have transcribed each page and panel into a script.

- Accurate format: You have followed the format I gave you in class.

- Use of vocab: You have used vocab in your script when necessary (ex. close up, /OP, /BZ, etc.)

- Use of description: You have described your panels in a clear manner for the artistic team.

REMINDERS:

- Dialogue is NOT CENTERED. The character name is indented 5 inches, and the dialogue is indented 4 inches (just hit tab that many times)
- Don't forget PUNCTUATION in your panel descriptions!
- SFX is formatted just like dialogue.
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Compare/Contrast your script with another person who chose the same Graphic Novel.  Answer these questions:

• What did you do the same? (Format, descriptions, etc.)
• What looks different? 
• Did you use similar vocabulary? 
• Could a cartoonist look at both scripts and create the same Graphic Novel?

Panel Descriptions:

1. The mom is thinking about cleaning the house.

2. The mom grasps her broom with a look of determination.

Art Spiegelman

Art Spiegelman was born in Stockholm, Sweden and immigrated to the US with his parents during his early childhood.  He is one of the most well-know artists of Graphic Novels, and has greatly contributed to their acceptance as valued works of art in society today.  He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for Maus I- a Holocaust narrative of his father's survival.  

Spiegelman went against his parents' wishes for him to be a dentist and began drawing professionally at age 16.  After college, he became a part of the underground comix movement.  He took on various pseudonyms and contributed to the publishing of many underground comics.  He also taught a Comics Seminar at Colombia University in 2007.

"Spiegelman has become one of The New Yorker’s most sensational artists, in recent years drawing illustrations for covers that are meant not just to be plainly understood but also to reach up and tattoo your eyeballs with images once unimaginable in the magazine of old moneyed taste ... From his Holocaust saga in which Jewish mice are exterminated by Nazi cats, to the The New Yorker covers guaranteed to offend, to a wild party that ends in murder: Art Spiegelman’s cartoons don’t fool around."— The Los Angeles Times

HOMEWORK: Read Chapter 1 of Maus for Thursday.  Focus on the father/son relationship as you read.

For those of you who have NOT given me your Graphic Novel Types or your scripts, those are due to me by Thursday.