The top line of this blog are the theory and techniques guides for COMM 273. Along the left column you can see links to student work. Students post their public work here for COMM 273, Media and Popular Culture class at TLU.
I agree with your ideas on the length of the panels. They seem to be breaking the laws of McCloud. Although for the last panel I feel like time is moving slow compared to fast. Yes, the TV only has "time" to say one sentence but why would the Author bother in using the readers time on the television, especially because the words don't correspond with the page in the book. I believe the author is trying to illustrate that for one, time was going slow Karen sat there with her mom and the TV represents how time was passing. I think the TV could also represent the outside world, the way the letters are illustrated could show a few things, the lines could mean the TV is loud and that could be a representation that everything outside of Karen's world interrupts her time with her mom. It could also represent the outside world as being bad and Karen's imagination is the only good place to her.
I like the interpretation you have on the panels, especially the first and last one. For example you saying that the darkness in the first panel represents somber gloom, and that seems to explain what urges her to wake from her dream to reality. Even in her dreams she can run fast as she can, but reality is soon to catch up to her. Even if she is holding onto that last hope of fantasy and hope, possibly why she is still in wolf form, reality will start to surround her. Although I do disagree the transition of panel two to three it's more of a scene to scene seeing as she is leaving her dream and coming back to the real world
There is a really solid narrative set upon from the way you have explained how the lines coincide within the time and space that sets up the page sequence. I would go even deeper as to explaining the major or extensive shadowing that is all over the page giving it the mood that it is supposed to be giving. If not, then it is definitely providing towards the time and space rather than not as well as working to reveal the importance of words and images in general.
I agree with your ideas on the length of the panels. They seem to be breaking the laws of McCloud. Although for the last panel I feel like time is moving slow compared to fast. Yes, the TV only has "time" to say one sentence but why would the Author bother in using the readers time on the television, especially because the words don't correspond with the page in the book. I believe the author is trying to illustrate that for one, time was going slow Karen sat there with her mom and the TV represents how time was passing. I think the TV could also represent the outside world, the way the letters are illustrated could show a few things, the lines could mean the TV is loud and that could be a representation that everything outside of Karen's world interrupts her time with her mom. It could also represent the outside world as being bad and Karen's imagination is the only good place to her.
ReplyDeleteI like the interpretation you have on the panels, especially the first and last one. For example you saying that the darkness in the first panel represents somber gloom, and that seems to explain what urges her to wake from her dream to reality. Even in her dreams she can run fast as she can, but reality is soon to catch up to her. Even if she is holding onto that last hope of fantasy and hope, possibly why she is still in wolf form, reality will start to surround her. Although I do disagree the transition of panel two to three it's more of a scene to scene seeing as she is leaving her dream and coming back to the real world
ReplyDeleteThere is a really solid narrative set upon from the way you have explained how the lines coincide within the time and space that sets up the page sequence. I would go even deeper as to explaining the major or extensive shadowing that is all over the page giving it the mood that it is supposed to be giving. If not, then it is definitely providing towards the time and space rather than not as well as working to reveal the importance of words and images in general.
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