Cornell and Beyond

from graphic novels to glial cells

April 1, 2008 at 1:18 am | In This is it! Spring 08 | 1 Comment

So instead of doing what I should be doing (studying for my Psych prelim tomorrow) I will instead tell you all about what I can’t wait to do once it’s over tomorrow at 9 PM.

For my writing class, this week I have to turn in a Graphic Novel.

You heard me correctly, a graphic novel. The guidelines are pretty loose – 10 pages using visuals to tell some sort of story. I began filming after coercing several friends to be my ‘actors.’ We then galavanted around town to film my various ’scenes’ from my ’storyboard.’ (Please note I’m only using the quotes to indicate that my version of these various things were not too high-tech. For my storyboard, for example, I had ten pages in a spiral notebook of terrible drawings of what I envisioned my actors doing.) Yes, we may have gotten some weird looks here and there as I directed my friends in the scenes (”OK, look into her eyes. Not psychotic. You’re in love. Stop laughing! Crap, my camera just turned off.”) but it was well worth it.

Now I just have to master Adobe Photoshop in 3 days. Awesome.

I’ll let you see how it turns out if it turns out OK and will of course never mention it again if it looks like garbage. Just kidding! (Maybe.)

But for now it’s back to studying the neurochemical bases of mood disorders. Party in the 607.