Sunday, May 16, 2010
Comp 2
I really enjoyed the idea of composition 2, and I thought it was interesting, but I also found that it was difficult. After analyzing for a while, I found a lot in the comic to talk about, but it was hard to make it flow together. I also thought it was hard to fill up 4 to 5 pages. I wanted to cut a lot out so it wasn’t wordy, but then again I needed it to fill the requirements. I think it would have been interesting to find two comics on the same topic and comparing and contrasting the styles and portrayals. Whenever I analyze a comic, or anything for that matter, I feel like I am searching extremely hard to find something to write about, so I think I am being too in depth. Did anyone else find themselves struggling to fill up the requirements?
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I didn't really have a problem filling up the page requirement but I did feel like after writing 4-5 pages on this one comic that it just seemed to all run together. I also would have liked to compare two comics because I think it would have brought a different perspective to the paper.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree. It was really hard filling up 4 pages which is unusual for me. I definitely think that a comparison about two comics on the same topic would have been an interesting assignment. Finding a lot to talk about was hard because of the length of the memoir. I finished my essay feeling like I missed some things that are really important.
ReplyDeleteComparing two comics on same topic would be an interesting and easier assignment, since can just look for the differences and similarities and write about them instead of searching for the strategies used in one. Similar to you, it wasn't hard to find different strategies used by author, but to write about them.... Most strategies seem completely unrelated, so it was hard to fit them together, and ending up having to just take some that's completely out of flow out of paper.
ReplyDeleteI too tangle myself up in the details and take the obvious for granted when communicating the larger context to which those details fall under. I make assumptions that other readers have observed what seems readily apparent to me. In doing so I don't include those observations that tie my details together. It's absentminded of me, I would need another reader to spell out what they interpret for me because I know there's so much they see that I don't. There was a lot going on in my comic so I didn't have trouble filling the page requirement. My obstacle was organizing it in a coherent manner.
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