Methods- Comic Strips

The Lottery
For the Lottery, I used a T-Junction road setting for the background as the scene was outdoors and I wanted to give the readers a feeling that the roads were deserted as everyone in the village had gathered for the lottery. I used Tessie's gesture and facial expressions to show that she was upset about her husband "winning" the lottery. At the end, I used her hands to cover her face as I wanted to show that she was scared of people throwing stones at her and that she was pleading for people to restart the lottery.

The Purloined Letter
For this story, the setting was supposed to be in a room, thus I changed the background to a attractive purple and light-red coloured wall. As there is nothing much going on in the story, the most important part of this comic strip would be the speech bubbles as there would be a lot of talking going on, and would show the most important part of the story, how Dupin managed to find the letter.

All Summer in a Day
For this comic strip, since Venus was supposed to be raining every day, people would tend to be indoors and not come out, thus I made the background to where the children's classroom would be. I also made the first picture have many raindrops to show that it was rained cats and dogs in Venus and no sun could be seen, thus the dark and eerie setting. After the sun came out, the children played for an hour, during which they locked Margot in a locker, and then the raining continued. After they remembered that they left out Margot, I changed their facial expressions such that they look regretful of their decision and scared that Margot would be angry.