Apparently we need to post definitions of terms discussed in class, as well as notes and maybe a sentence or two of what I'm thinking about the class. It's not the person who gets the most of what's going on in class that wins, it's those who put in pictures and videos and links that get the better grades. We can also go back and revise our posts after class. I'll be sure to do all of that from now on.
It's not that I'm stealing this idea, but Anna, next to me, found this video and I thought that I would be proactive enough to find my own video. This one is a review of the book Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud that I thought extremely relevant to the class:
This is Tucker, ABD's new dog. Might be the cutest thing I've ever seen:
Class Notes:
· Logographic
o A picture represents a whole word
o English is a phonetic language made up of arbitrary, abstract sounds that are represented by unique symbols
· Ideographic
o Represents an idea conceptually, rather than by a word or words
o Like the Chinese alphabet
· Hieroglyphic
o Differs slightly from logographic because pictures indicate words from which sounds are taken to create the syllables of a word.
o The word itself is a symbol for a specific thought, idea, or notion, and tells the story in its presentation
· Chapter 3
o Terms
§ Closure
· Idea that something remains even though it may not be visually there at that moment
· Like peek-a-boo
· We can fill in the gaps between frames in the comic because of this notion
· Mentally completing that which is incomplete based upon past experience
· Every artist relies on his audience’s ability to do this, and the more we rely on our imaginations, the better the art
§ Perception
· The act of filling things in and hypothesizing
· Enables us to do night driving
· To us, reality is derived from perception
§ The Gutter
· The between-frames part
· “Blood in the gutter” is the title of the chapter, and it means that our mind fills in the gaps that we don’t necessarily see
· Psycho, Reservoir Dogs, etc.
o Kinds of transitions between frames
§ Describes how the imagination is supposed to get you from panel one to panel two
§ There are a total of 95 panel-to-panel transitions, but he only goes into detail on 6
§ Moment-to-moment
· See the women, then she blinks
· Requires very little closure
§ Action-to-action
· The most common one by far
§ Subject-to-subject
· Need a certain degree of reader involvement
· 19-20%
§ Scene-to-scene
§ Aspect-to-aspect
§ Non-sequitur
· Doesn’t make sense; no logical relationship between the two frames
o McCloud discusses the difference between different genres of comics from different countries
· Chapter 4
o Time is spatial in the world of comics, and time and space are the same
o There are many different ways to signify the passing of time in comics, and it can jump a single second or 100 million years between frames
o There are certain techniques to show the passing of time in silent panels
§ Repeating the same from several times
§ Changing the panel’s shape
§ Putting more space in between panels
§ Borderless panels
o Portraying motion in a single panel
§ Continuous background
· CBML templates
o Professor of library studies from IU came up with a system of coding comic books so that we can preserve them forever
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