Secondary 1 – Visual Arts: Telling Personal Stories
Secondary 1 students learnt to create artworks under the theme ‘Personal Stories’ in a form of Zine or Visual Strips. They were asked to share their life experiences or memories and visualise it into story line, pictures, collage and even add their photographs there.
Firstly, students discussed about Zine and Visual Strips artworks referring to how to make and connect it with their personal experiences. After gathering some information about the artworks, they continued to make the draft and sketch of their plan in a paper. To find other references of the artworks they chose, teacher also gave them opportunity to find reference on the internet. Next, students were making the draft in a piece of paper.
The purpose of this learning activities was to enhance the students’ creativity to visualise their experiences or personal life through their favourite artworks. Both Zine and Visual Strips became appropriate tools to represent their personal experiences through stories and pictures. It also built students’ creativity to think of the visual design about their life so that it can inspire others when they read it. In addition, Zine and Visual Strips are new things for the students. By this kind of learning activities, they can get more experience and knowledge about Arts creation.
