Sarah's Q and A :)

1. What is your book about?


My book is about my life and the lives of my co-workers over the past year-ish. Which I realise sounds self-indulgent and egotistic, but if you’ve heard anything about Zellers drama in the past while, you know that it’s basically the OC at minimum wage.



2. What makes your content choice specific to you?

My content is specific to me because it is inspired by my actual life. Not going to get any more specific to me than that!



3. How are you going to represent your content?

My content is going to be represented in graphic novel form. Other than that it’s going to be pretty straightforward, you read the text, you look at the image, and you make inferences about what might happen next. Your standard graphic novel.



4. How do you intend to communicate the content?

See question 3



5. What content editing methods will you use?

I haven’t entirely decided how I will be creating my illustrations yet, but I will be using the program “comic life” for my layout. I will likely be using photoshop for my images as well.



6. What media are you using you make your imagery?

I remain undecided… I will probably create one page with each of my potential ideas and see which one I like best… maybe get the class to vote?



7. Why are you making this particular book?

I am making this book because I feel that this story could be of interest to people and it is something I’ve wanted to turn into some form of media for a while. I’ve wanted to do it for a while partly because I think it could be entertaining for others in some form, but also to remind myself that people will always be ridiculous and there’s nothing to do but hold your head high and walk forward.



8. How does your choice of content suit your skills, experience, and interest?

I think my content choice suits my skills in that I am a skilled writer and that comic book artistry can be the illustrators individual style. There are no real rules when it comes to graphic novels because I find they tend to reflect the illustrators and authors more than a novel. I have actually made a comic before in grade 10 for my “To Kill a Mockingbird” summative. Comics are also one of my favourite forms of media.



9. Describe the style and look of your book and how it is linked to the content?

I want it to have a similar look to “Ghost World” which is a ‘non-action’ comic: very simple and clean but not plain. I think that links well to my content because I feel as though illustrations that are too full would be too much for the mood I am trying to achieve.