Live Scribing

For this workshop, we had to describe and present our Final Major Project to a small group, while another person illustrated (live-scribed) how the presenter described their project. When the first presenter finished, the group audience asked questions about the project, to further expand the understanding of the presenter's outcomes and intentions.

Before we began the exercise, we had to note down the basic elements of our FMP to talk about in our presentation, which could then be used by the group to ask questions about the presenter's project.   My project considers the following basic elements:-

What it is - 4 x A5 15-page science-fiction graphic novels.

Audience/Market - Young adults and science-fiction readers.

Title - "Invasion of the Cryp'lar Series" - "Extinguish" (Book 1), "Vanquard" (Book 2), "Resolute" (Book 3), "Aftermath" (Book 4).

Intention - To provoke thought on deeper moral/philosophical issues.

Production - Traditional illustration with digital formatting, followed by printing/publishing.

Medium - Inking with brush over pencil, with digital clean-up.

Research - Comic artists and styles, fiction and sci-fi writers.

Colour - Black and white (monochromatic).

One of our group's illustrated final major projects can be seen below, and shows the result of having an artist interpret and respond to what the presenter said. The exercise showed a visual representation of what we were planning to do for our FMP's, which naturally led to questions about some of the presented ideas. After the live scribing, the group came away with a better idea of what each of us was doing for our projects, and helped us to practice talking about them to prepare for our pitches.

I feel that this exercise was difficult for me to carry out, as I found talking to a group of people about my project - as well as drawing another person's project - to be intimidating. While the skills that were gained from the task would aid us when it came to the pitch at the end of the module, it was not the most comfortable way of going about it for me. On the other hand, learning about what other people were doing for their final major project helped me to compare the projects and reconfigure my own, as a result of questioning by the audience.