3: Creating the comic strips
We selected four of the animations that we thought would work best for our workshop: YES, NO, THE CHANT and THE GIFT. YES and NO would enable children to create story lines and feelings about seeking and refusing consent; the CHANT around gendered peer pressure to couple up as boyfriend and girlfriend; the GIFT as a developmentally appropriate way to begin to explore control and (sexual) exploitation.
We then selected freeze frames from the animations to create the comic strip books. We also worked up the idea to include a feelings cloud colour pallete. The design team (Seth and Dan) created and printed them for us to edit. We also created our own.