Extra task: Make a comic strip about a childhood memory

Easy version: Makebeliefscomix

1 Go to www.makebeliefscomix.com

2 You don't need to register. Start by clicking on "Enter here".

3 You click on the character/ the bubble/ the thing you want to add and it will turn up in the marked square in your comic strip. You navigate by clicking the arrows beneath the square to choose different characters et c.

4 To the left of the comic strips you find tools with which you can move, turn, resize and delete things in your strip.

5 There is no way to save your strip so you have to mail it to yourself to get a copy of the strip. You mail/print by clicking at the top to the left of the strips.

NB

It is possible to write in the bubbles in the mailed copies of the strip. If you don't have time to finish the strip in one lesson see to it that you have all the characters and all the bubbles you need. Then you can continue with the text later on.

A more advanced but also more complicated version: Pixton

1 Go to www.pixton.com

2 You need to register to use Pixton. If you are younger than 18 years you have to write down your parents' e-mail address. It's free to use Pixton but you consume points when you make a comic strip. If you want to get more points you have to do certain things, like read the rules, invite a friend, visit the Pixton-site every day. You can also buy points and that is why you have to give them your parents' e-mailif you are underaged.

3 After you have clicked "Join now" and registered you have to open your e-mail and confirm your registration before you can start.

4 Then you can start creating comic strips. My advice is to start with the ones called Quickies (Snabbt fixat), where there are readymade scenecs, bubbles et c and you can change characters and add things to make them you own.

5 In Pixton you have many possibilities to change everything from facial expressions to body positions. You have many backgrounds, props and special effects you can add.

6 In Pixton you can save and continue with a strip later on. Don't hesitate to ask your teacher to check your text before you publish it.

NB! If the computer can't finish downloading a strip you have chosen, your points aren't lost. When you log in another time you'll find these unfinished strips beneath "My comics" and "unpublished".