IAT 100 LECTURE 08  Review  Word + Text  Activity

ASSIGNMENT 2 REVIEW

REVIEW: ICON “LANGUAGE” OF COMICS

HOW TO SELECT TRANSITION TYPE 1. It is true to the emotion of the moment 1. It reveals “just the right next thing to move your story foreword” 2. It advances the story 1. Not frivolous – should always ask ‘could this have been left out?” 3. It occurs at “just the right moment” and is rhythmically interesting 1. Types of transitions, there spacing, how they express time (fast, slow, realistic, dreamtime) is varied + interesting to the audience (but not frivolous) 4. It acknowledges that the eye will be “reading” from panel-to-panel- composition.

REVIEW: TRANSITIONS = STORY TYPES Transitions that help clarify the nature of an action, idea or mood:  Action  Subject  Scene Suitable for goal driven or narratives that are of interest on the strength of content.

REVIEW: TRANSITIONS Transitions that add POV:  Moment-to-moment  Aspect-to-aspect Suitable for nuanced or emotionally driven plots / concepts. Interest is produced by how the story is told. **may use different transition types at different points in narrative.

REVIEW: TRANSITIONS  non-sequesters do not help clarify or develop plot but can be used to create atmosphere or interesting associations.

THE ILLUSION OF TIME: MOVEMENT

THE ILLUSION OF TIME: SHAPE

CONSIDER MOVEMENT

PROJECT 2 INTERFACE CONSIDERATIONS  Navigation  Scrolling & Buttons Consistency, Metaphor, Style No ‘Next’ / ‘Click’ Buttons or Arrows  No Branching Narratives unless very carefully considered.

TRANSMIT A CONNECTED SERIES OF IDEAS

TEXT / IMAGE COMBINATIONS  1. Word specific, where "pictures illustrate, but don't significantly add to a largely complete text."  2. Picture specific, where "words do little more than add a soundtrack to a visually told sequence."  3. duo-specific, where "both words and pictures send essentially the same message."  4. Additive, where "words amplify and elaborate on an image or vice versa."  5. Parallel, where "words and pictures seem to follow very different courses-- without intersecting."  6. Montage, where "words are treated as integral parts of the picture.”  7. Interdependent, where "words and pictures go hand in hand to convey an idea that neither could convey alone.

WORD SPECIFIC Advantages: Compress time (few words can move story foreword/backward.) efficient means of storytelling. Free up pictures (not needed to advance story)

PICTURE SPECIFIC Copper #1 - Rocket Pack Fantasy Kazu Kibuishi Advantages: free words up to do something other then advance plot evoke a sense of direct experience and/or immediacy Linked with sound/s, create sense of place

DUO SPECIFIC Advantages: maximum clarity evoke children’s tone evoke a feeling of “antique” storytelling traditions **be careful not to be redundant

DUO SPECIFIC

DUO SPECIFIC - MAUS

ADDITIVE SPECIFIC Advantages: words can be used to exaggerate or elaborate on an image, or vice versa Both text / image cover same information but add insight or point of view (need to be understood as a combination) Guy Delisle’s Graphic (Travel-Narrative) Comic

ADDITIVE Jack Survives by Jerry Moriarty

INTERDEPENDENT COMBINATION Advantages: Image and text combination create a new meaning. can show characters inner feelings `Internal monologue keep audience engaged as they require them to “assemble” meaning.

PARALLEL Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y 1997, Johan Grimonprez, Advantages: create a dense layer work e.g. foreshadow by having text from later scene, or delay text to allow audience to imagine response. can also mimic “wandering thoughts of character.

PARALLEL art spiegelman “don't get around much anymore ” Contents refer to panel that precede them,, creating a disorienting sense of psychological inertia. Based on song “don’t get arounddon’t get around much anymoremuch anymore”.

MONTAGE Advantages: Both text / image cover same information but add insight or point of view (need to be understood as a combination) 1966 Will Eisner Studios Inc

CREATE SOUND Christian Marcly, Whomp + Click, click

OR NO TEXT AT ALL Marcel Dzama

SUPPORT EACH OTHERS STRENGTHS  Words tell  Show fragments i.e. close-ups  Abstraction i.e. show emotion  Emotional Information i.e. tears  Shift forward or backward in time  Images tell  Latitude for scripting, i.e. internal monologue  Incongruous (parallel)  Ruminate on other topics

BALANCING ACT

TURN YOUR CLICKERS ON

NAME THE PICTURE / WORD COMBINATION Whaam! by Roy Lichtenstein, A. Picture specific B. Additive, C. duo-specific D. Montage, E. Interdependent

CORRECT ANSWER: C DUO-SPECIFIC Whaam! by Roy Lichtenstein, A. Picture specific B. Additive, C. duo-specific D. Montage, E. Interdependent

NAME THE PICTURE / WORD COMBINATION Catia Chen “Flight” A. Word specific B. Picture specific C. duo-specific D. Additive, E. Interdependent

CORRECT ANSWER: C OR E Catia Chen “Flight” A. Word specific B. Picture specific C. duo-specific D. Additive, E. Interdependent ** depends if you consider it internal monologue or narration

'We only have to wash and wax our missile on the first Sunday of every month. Excerpt from Tales of Suburbia by Shaun Tan NAME THE PICTURE / WORD COMBINATION A. duo-specific B. Additive, C. Parallel D. Montage, E. Interdependent

CORRECT ANSWER: E INTERDEPENDENT COMBINATION 'We only have to wash and wax our missile on the first Sunday of every month. Excerpt from Tales of Suburbia by Shaun Tan A. duo-specific B. Additive, C. Parallel D. Montage, E. Interdependent Image and text combination create a new meaning.

ACTIVITY  Create different combinations of text and images.  Compare how mixing text & images changes how you perceive both.  Identify the text image combination type by name.  Write at least two possible text / image combinations for each image.

CLICKER REVIEW  Did you do the activity?  A: Yes  B: No

CLICKER REVIEW  Did you find text / image combinations had unexpected effects on each other?  A: Yes  B: No

CLICKER REVIEW  Did this activity help you to see the possibilities of applying text image combinations in your project?  A: Yes  B: No

CLICKER REVIEW  Would you like to do more activities in the lecture?  A: Yes  B: No

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Widescreen Test Pattern (16:9) Aspect Ratio Test (Should appear circular) 16x9 4x3