Grants:Project/TheNEBstudio/WikiMillennials/Timeline
This project is funded by a Project Grant
| proposal | people | timeline & progress | finances | midpoint report | final report |
Timeline for TheNEBstudio[edit]
| Timeline | Date |
| Launching session with the whole team to align on the project's artistic and concrete outlines. | September 2020 |
| Created the synopsis of the webcomic | October 2020 |
| Created a sample introduction for the podcast | October 2020 |
| Held a listening session in French to connect with the Wikimedia Community | November 2020 |
| Comic book's script completed | February 2021 |
| Artists create the 1st half of the comic | April 2021 |
| Sprint session : artists continue drawing | October 2022 |
| Sprint session : artists finish the art | April 2023 |
| Expected launch date | 25th May 2023 |
Monthly updates[edit]
Please prepare a brief project update each month, in a format of your choice, to share progress and learnings with the community along the way. Submit the link below as you complete each update.
September 2020[edit]
- We held a team meeting to launch the project
- Working groups inside the team agreed on timelines for each sub-project (webcomic, podcast, workshop)
October 2020[edit]
The Webcomic Team
- wrote the synopsis for the webcomic
- created moodboards to lead the artist's work
The Podcast Team
- created the framework for the podcast
- wrote and recorded a sample introduction
The Workshop Team
- analyzed the needs of our core audience
- are mostly waiting due to COVID circumstances, to see whether the events will be offline or online.
November 2020[edit]
- Created our 1st visual for Wikimedians to use as communication.
- Held a listening session in French with the francophone Wikimedia community
- 12 wikimedians attended, from 6 countries (Belgium, Benin, France, Guinea, Switzerland, Tunisia), working in particular on wiki-projects related to comic-books, Africa, women and LGBT topics.
December 2020[edit]
- Recruited an Afrofeminist, afro-descendent podcaster as consultant for the webcomic's script.
- Created the WikiMillennials Commons category.
January 2021[edit]
Webcomic Team
- Wrote the 1st draft of the full script
- Held several meetings with our consultant to align story elements with congolese culture
- Finalized the 1st half of the script
- Started drawing the storyboard
February 2021[edit]
- Completed the script
- Completed half of the storyboard
March 2021[edit]
- Line-art for half the comicbook
April 2021[edit]
- Half of the comic has been fully drawn and colored
May 2021 to September 2022[edit]
- The project was put on hold due to personal and professional events
October 2022[edit]
- The art-team gathered for a 2 weeks sprint session in Grenoble to advance the production of the drawings
November 2022 to March 2023[edit]
- Project on hold
- Research was made about the webcomic platform we intended to use
April 2023[edit]
- The art-team gathered again for a 3 weeks sprint session in Grenoble to advance the drawing.
- Support team worked on
- slicing the comic into episodes for publication
- communications plan and launching
May 2023[edit]
- The art team
- completed the full comic!
- created communication visuals
- Support team
- started communicating on social media
- started communicating towards Wikimedia communities
- Visuals from the comics were uploaded to Wikimedia Commons
- First few episodes to be launched on May 25th on the platform Webtoons
Is your final report due but you need more time?
Extension request[edit]
New end date[edit]
We would like to postpone the end date up to the end of March 2022.
Rationale[edit]
We apologize for not handling the grant in time and we realize this is a long extension we are requesting. Here are our reasons:
- the comic book is longer than we first thought it would be, and thus takes longer to storyboard and draw (that's somehow on us, we should have made the script shorter, but we also think it's great that the story has enough time to unfold and really mix pop culture with more didactic elements about wikipedia)
- when we applied for the grant, the NEB studio had no other ongoing project. But in the meantime (before we got the answer for the grant), the studio was solicited to work on the comic adaptation of a bestselling SciFi novel. It's an opportunity the studio couldn't miss out, and thus we ended up juggling between the two projects (+dayjobs).
- the pandemic also added difficulties to everyone's schedules and personal lives.
As a result, we had to stop working on WikiMillennials in early May, leaving the comic half-way finished. The studio is now stuck on its other project up until December. We will be able to restart the production of the last part of the comic in early 2022.
We hope you will understand these circumstances and allow for this additional time. We are really looking forward to finishing and publishing this comic, which we believe is an exciting story about roots and knowledge.
On the side are a few excerpts from the first half of the comic, so you can enjoy these first visuals :)