Job: realise meaningful media components and name the actual process. Ready: familiar drawing/arranging tools or approved offline editor if useful; optional blank make-my-strip aid. Say: “Which part shall we make now?”
- 0–3: Choose whether the still strip is the final media work or a storyboard for another possible medium. In this project a made picture strip is enough; no filmed product required. Choose a comfortable tool/director route and the next useful component.
- 3–8: Actually draw/arrange/edit or direct one realised image/text component. The learner can make one broad mark, select a crop or ask the adult to realise a specific choice. Adult tool operation remains adult operation; a wholly adult preset example is not learner production.
- 8–12: Name the process used—drawing original images, cropping, placing, ordering, editing text—through the available work. Ask what changed from the plan. Avoid inferring camera/software skill from a paper image or adult action.
- 12–20: Continue only a useful production part. Check image identity/word/position choices against the learner's declared meaning, or intentionally change the meaning. An incomplete strip can remain actual unfinished work. Blank spare panels are options, not four-panel requirements. Keep credits and no-identifying-data practice simple.
- 20–25: Select keep/change/stop and a useful edit for later. Record actual maker/decision/tool/help at the demonstrated scope. Next: compare image/word options without promising a reader effect.