Core Skills Analysis
Digital Media and English
AK explored digital media through comic-making in Procreate on an iPad and learned about video mashups or remixes and how to create videos using this technique. The visit to teamLab interactive activities in Kyoto provided a real-world connection to interactive digital experiences. Through combining or reworking video material, AK encountered how sequencing and editing can shape a new media text and its effect on an audience. The activity also offered practice using visual storytelling to communicate ideas through digital tools.
Media Arts
AK engaged with digital media by creating comics in Procreate and learning a video-remix technique. The activity connected hands-on creation with the interactive digital experiences encountered at teamLab in Kyoto, helping AK consider how digital images and moving content can be arranged to create an experience. Making comics and remix videos involved applying creative choices to a screen-based format. This supported AK’s understanding of digital media as both an interactive experience and a way to compose and share visual stories.
Tips
Tips Build on AK’s interest in Procreate by inviting AK to storyboard a short comic, then adapt the same idea into a brief video remix, comparing how panel order, pacing, sound and transitions affect the story. Explore an interactive digital artwork together and have AK sketch a simple user journey showing what viewers see or do at each stage. Create a small, clearly sourced collection of family-created images or video clips for a remix, then discuss how editing choices change meaning and how to credit source material. Finish with a mini showcase where AK presents the work and explains one creative decision.
Book Recommendations
- The Photographer's Eye: A Graphic Guide by Michael Freeman: A visually oriented introduction to composition and image-making that can support discussion of how images communicate in comics and digital media.
- Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud: A widely read exploration of how comics use panels, images and sequencing to tell stories—closely connected to AK’s Procreate comic-making.
Learning Standards
- Australian Curriculum v9.0 — English, AC9E10LY06: The comic and video-remix work connects with planning and creating multimodal texts for an audience; this is a relevant extension of the digital composition described.
- Australian Curriculum v9.0 — English, AC9E10LA07: Considering how visual choices shape meaning and representation connects with evaluating still and moving images.
- Australian Curriculum v9.0 — English, AC9E10LE08: Developing a comic or remix as a sustained visual story can connect with creating and editing literary texts for a purpose and audience.
Try This Next
- Storyboard worksheet: plan a six-panel comic in Procreate, then map the panels to a short video sequence.
- Remix reflection: identify how sequencing, transitions or sound could change the meaning of a short, appropriately sourced clip.
- Create a visual flowchart showing how a viewer moves through an interactive digital artwork.
- Write a short creator’s note explaining one editing choice and its effect on the audience.