Thursday, May 20, 2010

What is relevant?

So I am really trying to think about this graphic memoir, I know my topic and I know the overall story I want to tell but I don't know how to tell it. How is everyone deciding what to include and what not to include? I am doing this on a past trip and I have over 500 pictures but they are either of things I saw or of people posing for pictures. Is anyone else doing something like that and how are you going to stage photos so that they seem like they are in the setting of where you were? I am also still wondering what resources everyone is using other than just photos. I have a few things I want to include but I just can't think of how to make them flow well with the photos. How many scenes is everyone setting? Sorry for all of the questions, I am just really not knowing how to begin putting my ideas together!
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  1. Sean StirsmanMay 23, 2010 at 11:25 AM

    Yea I am in kind of the same boat as you, I think I am going to be doing my memoir over a past trip, and I have many photos of the trip(not close to 500 like you haha) and I am having a little difficulty trying to put everything together as well.

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  2. AxelMay 23, 2010 at 4:21 PM

    Well sounds like you at least have a great place to start having five hundred pictures. I am in the opposite boat, I pretty much have how I want to tell my story and even what the images should look like but am lacking enough pictures. I wish i could someone just draw exactly what I envisioned in my mind. Back to your dilemma though, I would this about major events or problems that occurred on the trip. Try to find a turning point and maybe a lesson you learned from the trip and it should help.

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  3. AnonymousMay 23, 2010 at 5:03 PM

    I understand exactly what you are saying here, what to include and what not to include seems to be the most important part, apart from even the pictures and the text. Depending on the time span it seems like there could be a million pictures that could describe just a few days, and doing a story over a few months seems impossible. The audience to understand the closure between panels seems to be the most challenging part of composition four.

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