Media, Information and Technoculture 3214F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Meh, Semiotics, Comic Timing
21 Feb 2015
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Five parts: funny animals at war, comic semiotics, darkness and expressionism, comic timing, narrative control. Deep background long history of graphic texts dealing with war; most famous graphics at. Habit of taking funny animals to war (ex. The beast is dead done underground during war and printed afterwards narrative rather than speech balloons idea that different animals are different nationalities comes from this 1942. Space between panels = gutter, everything else in panels = live area. Pg 74 ex bottom panels correspond to top close to perfection design enclosed everything that will lost perspective we are outside looking in. Comics talked about in the context of film. Page 58 3 tiers things stacked/racked up all different sizes and different # of panels typically you look for the grid underneath (ads have this too 1 second to capture attention) Be careful about accepting what his says as absolute truth, it cant be done.
