Graphic Journalism: Use comics to tell real stories

Overview

“Once we've done the research, interviewed people, collected and studied the settings of the stories and created our archive, we go to dig it all out and put it on the table. Materials such as video interviews, photos of people and locations, historical archive photos, books that talk about the theme you have chosen, newspaper articles will help you orient yourself and create a chronological order. Let's take a closer look at this. ”

In this video lesson Takoua Ben Mohamed addresses the topic: Transformation from reporter to storyteller, which is part of the Domestika online course: Graphic Journalism: Use comics to tell real stories. Use the drawing to represent a true story, news, or event giving voice and face to its protagonists. .

Partial transcription of the video

“Transformation from reporter to storyteller In this lesson, we transform from a reporter to a storyteller. Once our interviews are done, we collect all the photographic material, historical research, videos and interviews, the photographs we took on location, costumes, scenery and we put it all on the table. In this case, I put everything on a digital bulletin board to have everything ahead. Before leaving, meet the people, before doing anything, I learned about the history of the country, the culture of the country and reading some historical books. Some of these books are for example by T...”

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Course summary for: Graphic Journalism: Use comics to tell real stories

• Level: Beginner
• 90% positive reviews (10)
• 539 students
• 4 units
• 10 lessons (1h 30m)
• 4 downloads

• Category

  Illustration, Writing

• Areas

  Comic, Creative Writing, Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration