Ellis Broadhead EPQ

Audience: I believe that my audience for the club will be primarily male, although I am hoping to have at least one female join the club. This is due to the fact that comics are generally viewed as a typically 'masculine' interest, despite the increasing normality of comics as an interest in society today due to the increase of superhero films. I also suspect that the club will consist mainly of students from Year 7 - Year 9, because of the fact that Year 10 and 11 students tend to be too busy focussing on their GCSEs and attending revision sessions to attend a club that is for one of their interests. Finally, I believe that the club will also consist of a mixture of students interested in comics but not art, students interested in drawing but not comics, and students interested in both. Accessibility: Because the club is open for all lower school students, I cannot assume that everybody in the club will have a basic knowledge of comic books and drawing, and I need to ensu...

After considering my poster again, I figured it would be a lot easier to discuss a precise meeting place and time, where our initial meeting will be held. In this initial meeting, I decided it would be best to ask students of their preferred time for our next, regular meetings to be held. Therefore, I updated the poster to match this information: I also increased the spacing of some of the words on the picture, to make it more aesthetically pleasing to the viewer.

In order to set up a Comic Club around school, the first thing I needed to do was design a poster to advertise the club to students. Here is the first draft: I used minimal colouring to ensure it would be cheap to print on school's budget, but also to increase how the lettering stands out to any people who may pass by. Furthermore, I actually included a small comic strip (drawn by me), to showcase what I can already do and inform others that I'd make a good teacher.

I found this academic source using Google Scholar. Session Date: 08/10/17 Resource Used: https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=http://scholar.google.co.uk/&httpsredir=1&article=1008&context=englishpub  Dale Jacobs Brief Summary/Description of Source: A piece on attitudes towards comics in society and how they should be viewed as equally intellectually stimulating as any other piece of literature.  What Was I Hoping To Find Out?: I was hoping to gain an understanding of the attitudes towards comic books in the education system with a view to highlighting the importance of comics to my students. Brief Summary of What I've Learnt From the Source: I learnt all about how why others may argue that classic literature is more mentally stimulating than a comic or visual novel, but why their arguments are false. Furthermore, I've also learnt how to derive meanings from comics, in the same way you might do with a piece of text. Reliability o...

Here's what I intend to do this month for my project: - Finalise my ideas for the project. I need to decide exactly how I'm going to spread the news about the club around my school, as well as decide when the club is going to be held, how often, and find a teacher willing to supervise the club at this time. I need to check whether the school has a policy on after school clubs, and how I'm going to follow this to ensure that my club is being run correctly. - Advertise the club. Design some tools used to advertise the club around school. Maybe draw some posters, and contact the correct people in school to ensure that a notification regarding the creation of the club is passed on to students within their forms, and also to present advertising for the club on the TV screens around school. 

Because my day to day life is quite busy, I decided to create a timeline of how I expect my project to progress. However, trying to pinpoint a date to start the club has been harder than expected, so instead, I created a very basic timeline that would allow me to be flexible with how I choose to run the club. Through my previous experience running a group, I've found it's important to be flexible in your plans in case circumstances change; for example, not enough members might show up one week.  Here's the timeline: Weeks leading up to comic club: Design posters, send news of the club out to form tutors, advertise club on boards around school. Comic Club Week 1: A Welcome Evening! Introduce myself, encourage discussion in the group with ice-breakers, teach the students about the history of comics and recommend them some of my favourite free webcomics. Comic Club Week 2: Teach the students about the importance of characters, in their creation and design. Encourage...

For my project, I intend to run a comic club for younger students within the school, as well as create my own comic alongside the students. Although I have experience running a club- as I'm a leader at my local Brownie group- I want to gain independence from researching about a topic I know little to nothing about and teach it to students in a way that is clear and engaging.  To achieve this, I will create a timeline for the club, where over several weeks I will teach them how to write and draw the perfect comic, before eventually using the remaining weeks to discuss and create our own comics. I will design posters and send out messages to advertise the club around the school. Furthermore, I have wanted to create my own comic for a while now, and I hope that researching these skills will ensure I learn how to draw and plan my own comic to a high standard.  The only issues I can forsee with this project are that I need to find a teacher who will happily supervise the club ...

A post detailing my initial planning ideas: