1. Final Major Project : Ideas Generation
Graphic Novel/Comic Book,
Set in medieval times focus
Set of comic strips over a on a hunting story or a
series of newspapers or scouting mission
magazines
Graphic Novel set in
the early 1900’s
focusing on a jazz
3D model of an FMP
idea for a new singer of importance
BRAINSTORM before their fame or
style of jazz club
set in town rising to their fame
3D model of a 1900’s jazz club
Electronic comic strip released environment
online over a period of weeks o
months
Adobe Illustration of a series of old
fashioned 1900’s posters displaying jazz
music and blues instruments to be shown in
music stores to either attract jazz fans or
increase peoples interest in jazz and blues.
2. Choosing my Main Idea
Graphic Novel set in the early 1900’s focusing on a jazz singer of importance before their fame or
rising to their fame
Expanding on the Idea
I will create a graphic novel or a comic book based on the early life of a jazz singer.
It will be set in the early 1900’s in America, before the singers rise to fame, with a surreal
fantastical twist in the storyline.
I would like to include other jazz singers in the plot whether they are just introduced for a scene or
deeper entangled in the story. Singers that come to mind are Nina Simone, Ethel Waters, Della
Reese, Nat King Cole,. Miles Davis and Louis Armstrong.
Obviously, because of the specific time it will be set in, I will have to look over the singers timelines
and where they were in their career and how old they were before including them.
3. Ideas Generation, using research collected
I have discovered that the majority of comic and
graphic novel fans prefer hardback books to any
other kind, and would be interested in my idea.
Therefore I have decided to begin working with
my black hardback sketchbook for the Graphic
novel and with the general idea of Ella Fitzgerald’s
rise to fame.