Today in class, we kept working with EditiX 2010 to log and preserve comics. It's a really interesting program, utilizing HTML and XML to categorize and archive comic panels. I did mine on the most recent Zits comic, in which Hector gets a haircut and seems to be complimented by everyone they see while Jeremy is completely ignored. It was a simple comic to log, in that there wasn't any floating text or anything special, except that in the first panel there were three speakers who weren't actually shown in the panel itself. Everything else, though, was just dialogue between Jeremy and Hector. I'm really curious to see what this is going to look like in website form, which Dr. Mandell said she's going to make these into tonight.
Hold the phone, I might have done this all wrong...
Ok, so apparently, we don't need any speaker or caption tags, and the whole text balloon can fit under the following:
<balloon type= "speech" who= "character>
<p>Text spoken by character</p>
</balloon>
Variations arise when you get floating text, thought bubbles, narrative voices, or other text that the characters can also see, and the program is equipped to handle those as well. I'm about to show my code in front of the class. I hope that it's actually right, or else this could be very embarrassing...
I forgot to put spaces between the = and the " which apparently is wrong. Darnit...
Questions for Steve Jones:
1. Now that Lost has concluded, has your comparison of the series to the narrative structure of a video game changed at all? If so, how?
2. Do you still think that video games are "the dominant, paradigmatic form" in popular media culture today?
3. "The very idea of an island of penance for the dead, a purgatorial snow globe, is an error, an illusion." What do you think about this now?
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