Sunday, May 23, 2010
Composition Four Story
I've got a story to work with, but now it's time to represent the story in 5-10 pages with pictures, and the closure between panels seems to be the most difficult thing while I begin sketching scenes, and panels. I've had a few rough draft pages my friends have looked at but they seem to be only getting part of the story. I've been troubled with the fact of mixing the textual resources and pictures adequately enough to convey the message and the story. Also on the proposal it seems that the background information that you'd have to provide seem almost endless, I feel as though you could tell someone everything and they still wouldn't quite understand the story. Composition four should be fun and challenging, and I enjoy working on it but the trouble I'm having with closure seems to be holding it back, the story could go on forever.
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I know what you mean on the story could go on forever. I feel like even though my memoir is covering 10 days, it is really hard to decide what to include and how to use the closure to include more events rather than wasting 2 pages trying to explain one story. I think I am just going to start from the beginning and work on that and the end before I decide what to include in the middle and see how long it will end up being.
ReplyDeleteAs McCloud said in his book about comic: "few will claim more than thirty (percent that his/her project truly represents what he/she envisioned it to be). So, you shouldn't worry too much about getting everything right. I personally feel that as long as you successfully gets the message you want to convey through your audiences, your work is done. And then...that's probably the most difficult part, so...good luck to us all~
ReplyDeleteSince you have so much background information needed to get your message through you should start by having the narrator tell a little story at the beginning will all of the information we need. This is a straight forward way but maybe not the most creative but you need to get the message to the audience and this might be a good way to do that.
ReplyDeleteI know exactly what you mean. I had an idea for a story but then I started thinking about it and the background info just seemed too much to include in 5-10 pages so I changed my topic. But I don't think that's what you should do and I probably didn't have to do it either. Just think to yourself what are the different contents in the story that help it fit all together. What do you need to project to your audience for everything to make sense? Once you have thought of them, write a list (short and simple: 1 to 2 words for each) and use it as a guideline for when you sit down to write the story. You should easily be able to include each item on the list in just 1 or 2 frames and use a narrative text to help them fill in the gaps.
ReplyDeleteI try to keep in mind what information a picture could convey that it would take me longer in words to say. That has helped me to condense the message I'm attempting to communicate. On the one hand I don't want to be overly obvious, to where I don't put any faith in my reader to fill in the gaps and make connections but I don't want to be so obscure that meaning is lost in too many possibilities of interpretation.
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