On Composition 1 - Blood In the Gutter

In attempting to show my images as coherent ideas, I referred to McClouds chapter on the idea evoking the reader's imagination. Seperate images in the work of comics that have been included to become a single idea require a bit of work from the audience to perceive the coherent idea.

For our 6 Image Memoir assignment, using words with the image was not permitted, so the visual aspects of the images could only be perceived within the mind of the reader without any other explaination of meaning. Because I am not an artist, my preferred image catagory is photographs. Without live models or photography skills for moment to moment movements and meanings, my only choice was to utilize the subject, scene, or aspect panel transitions. I first chose the subject that I wanted this compositon to be about, and afterwards it was very difficult to match my subject with photographs to describe or tell about it. This aspect of image memoir was frustrating because reader judgement and interpretation could only depend on change and motion. There is no time represented through sound without words.

Consequently, I chose to concentrate on aspects of the whole subject for these images, so that the reader would be interested enough in the quality, and relationship of the images to move forward to my 66 Word Memoir which offers details to the meaning. This was a very difficult assignment.