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Creating A Comic Using Scratch – Year 7

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Learning Objectives and Outcomes

Students will be able to create an animated comic using the Scratch interface.

• Enable – Students will be able to rename their images

• Engage – Students will be able to create a comic scene in scratch

• Empower – Students will be able to create a broadcast to move between scenes in scratch

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Overview

The great thing about creating programs or apps is that programmers can include interactions or create animations.

In this class we will be:Renaming our image files into scenesImporting our scenes into ScratchTesting our comic app

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Comics

Comics are a fantastic way to tell a story.They use images and text in such a way as to make the story more interesting. By creating a comic in Scratch we can animate between the scenes.

©Patrick McGee Image copyright notice: Comic Crier by Ian Andersen

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Comic Scratch

So Let’s Go!

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The steps needed to rename our image files

Step one: Find your set of imagesStep two: Move them into your work areaStep three: Right click the image file and select ‘rename’ Step four: Rename your file by the scene number and your initials using the following example: 01-pjm

TIP: keep the file name in lowercase to avoid errors later on.

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Building a comic in Scratch

So now that we have our images in our work area we need to start to import them into Scratch.

There are two ways that we can use our scenes in Scratch. We could:

Import them as a new spriteOr

Import them as a background

In this lesson will import the scenes as a background or backdrop

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The steps needed to import the scenes into Scratch

Step one: Open the Scratch programStep two: Go to the new backdrop areaStep three: Click the upload new backdrop buttonStep four: Name the backdrop using the same file name as in the previous task

TIP: You can edit your scenes inside of Scratch if you feel that your speech bubbles and narration areas could be improved

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Creating the code!

Using the Scratch Sprite see if you can create the animated comic using these blocks as a guide!

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Testing!

This code uses the ‘wait 4 secs’ block to move between scenes in our animated comic.But is 4 seconds enough time for people to read the comic?So in order to test our comic ask the group next to you to test your comic!

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