1) Positive statement
- I'm most proud of the fact that I engaged my whole audience during my presentation. I've been to so many presentations that didn't engage their audience at all, but they were reacting and enjoying my presentation as much as I was enjoying giving it.
2) Questions to Consider
- To be honest, I would either give myself a high P or an AE for my two-hour presentation. It seemed to be engaging and I got a lot of interesting heroes for the activity. While my timing might have been off a bit (I do tend to ramble a little and that's something I'm working on), overall it was a very good presentation with well-thought out information.
- As for the overall grade for my senior project, I'd have to give myself a P. One of the reasons is because a lot of my work has been late and I'm not disputing that at all. However, the work that I do turn in (Research, interviews, etc.) no matter how late, have all been high quality. I had consistent AEs on my research as well as my interviews and I did my best with the other components as well. My only real issue was time.
3) What Worked?
- Being able to chose my own topic was really the thing that worked best for me. The teachers worked with me to keep the topic that I wanted, even if it wasn't very academic. It was fun to actually do a project that I wanted to do.
4) What Didn't Work?
- I feel like all of the deadlines were very sporatic. We would have a few weeks of not having any deadlines at all (or even just checks) and then everything would be due at once. Scheduling out these deadlines and projects is really what iPoly is about: each grade team works together to create a steady workload for the students. However, I don't think that was very well done this year, for whatever reason. That's the only thing that really didn't work for me.
5) Finding Values
- This project has been helpful in two ways. One way is that I know how to criticize myself. In all of the work that I did, from the Interviews to my iSearch and all of the other components, I figured out how to make my work better by looking at the faults. It's been something that I've really had trouble with in the past. One example of this is my science project. I had to reassess just the basic idea over three times to get it to a project that was half-way understandable. I can take this focus and this persistence into my future career (whatever it may be).
The second way is that I really worked on basic skills,such as designing and writing. I know that my iSearch was really difficult for me because I'm not really sure how to write a research report. While the iSearch wasn't a pure research report, it still demanded a different style or writing than I was used to. It was a little more formal than I have ever written before and that was difficult for me. Another aspect that helped in my designing was creating the powerpoint itself. I had never really created a powerpoint by myself before. Sure, there were group powerpoints and everything, but I had never really done one on my own, so creating the powerpoint for my two hour was... an enlightening experience and I'd like to say that I did a whole lot better than a lot of people out there. I made my powerpoint personal (with comic book page backgrounds and customized fonts) and I made it engaging, which is hard to say for a powerpoint, not matter what the topic is. I can definitely take that on to whatever I'm doing next, because in almost every career, there's a chance to create something; whether that creation is a powerpoint, template, brochure, whatever, everyone has to design and present something at sometime in teir career and I believe that I'm on my way to mastering that ability.
Literal
· Log: I don't have it just yet, but I worked every Tuesday and Thursday from 3-6 or 7 from around Feb. 10th-March 29th.
· Dwain Kaiser (909) 472 - 2991
Interpretive
- The most important thing I gained from this experience is really, work experience. Even if I wasn't being paid, I understand how much work an employee would have to do and while some of the tasks are grueling, there are some which are rewarding as well.
Applied
- While it didn't really help my EQ mostly, there was something that I took away from it: What people like, what they enjoy in books or comics or whatever, isn't necessarily pre-determined. There were many people who came into the store that didn't look like book readers, or they went for a section I never anticipated. It was a motivator out of anything, to understand really what people were looking for in books and comics these days, which led to my first answer: Understanding the Modern Age.
EQ: What is the most important element in a successful, Modern-Age comic book series?
Answer: Determining what people what from comic books is an important element in creating a successful comic book series.
Evidence/Sources:
- Evidence 1: Unlike the other two major ages (Gold and Silver), the Modern-Age needs something human. It needs flaws and mistakes and bad decisions because that's what humans do.
- Source 1: "American Superheroes and the Politics of Good and Evil" article
- Evidence 2: The best way to interact with people is to create a character that means something to tehm.
- Source 2: Sean Jackson.
- Evidence 3: Social issues are also a pretty good thing to bank off of in comic books, such as femininity, gay rights or family death.
- Source 3: Brad Munson.
1.) My Room Creativity will be tackled by either creating a comic book store within the classroom (given that I can find comic book racks, or just a way to display my comics) and use some comics as examples through out my presentation. Or, if that becomes too complicated, I'll be hanging up print-outs of comic book covers and important panels on the walls behind me from basically floor to ceiling. This way, I can have examples of each of my answers while still having something creative.
2.) In my presentation, I'm going to have a longer lecture by pushing all three of the answers together, and then one long activity. The activity is going to be that each partnership (I'll have split each junior and senior up into partners) will create their own character. Along with this character, they'll have to write out a basic outline (or even a script) of an event that happened in that character's life. They will also give an explanation as to why it applies to the Modern-Age.
EQ: What is the most important element in a successful Modern-Age comic book series?
Answer: An important element in creating a successful comic book series is to have a character that develops through the story.
Evidence/Source:
- Evidence 1: Roy Harper is very well known within the comic book world and he's developed in his personal story in many ways. Staring off as a sidekick, he then became a junkie, then a father and when he lost his daughter, he went back into drugs. It's a natural progression of story that everyone who has read DC comics remembers.
- Source 1: "Superhero Makeovers: Roy Harper" article.
- Evidence 2: Even Superman has developed within the eighty years he's been around. The most obvious visual aspect of that change is his shield.
- Source 2: "The Story of the Shield (aka Superman's Symbol 101)" by Brian G. Philbin.
- Evidence 3: In the Modern-Age, people are looking for the humanity in comic books characters, and the best way to represent this humanity is to have them change through out a story or an event.
- Source 3: Brad Munson, 3rd Interview.
What is your product and why?
- My product is that I've gained the knowledge to conceptualize and design a comic book. Through out this whole process, my main focus has been doing just that: how can one design a successful comic book? I never really looked into the physical creation of a comic book or the marketing of one, so "creating a comic book" could never be my product. My extensive research and helpful interviews have helped me achieve this knowledge and have started me to actually designing one, which I'm in the process of right now.