1) In Class.
Today was really cool! I had so much fun learning about something that I thought I knew so much about, like comics. My most interesting part of Ms. B lesson was recognizing the transitioning from panel to panel, the time that each panel expresses and the emotion it illuminates. For ex. when we looked at that strip of a comic where the setting was in a kitchen and a lady was cooking with a timer clicking. I did not noticed that the emotion of this comic could have been rage, until Mr.McGuigan showed that by the ticking of the timer, the boiling water and the hard way that the woman was chopping the cucumber (there were exlamation marks that confirmed this) presented that the woman was angry, yet she her feelings with a plain expression.
An interesting note that I thought was very important was that there are a series of climaxes in a graphic novel, just like a spiral-one climax may be forshadowing the next.
2) Feedback.
i) Things that Mr. McGuigan said:
I am a great fan of the Godfather and I was really interested on learning (from what mr.McGuigan said) that the movie is just as good as copying a story from a comic book. We discussed in class that it was very hard for a director to make an actor present like in a book. But in graphic novels, we have the freedom to present the story in any way because there are no restrictions.
ii) Things peers said:
Since we did not talk during Ms. B's presentation, we discussed snippets on Monday. I really liked the way Geneva talked about Marjane not having power as a child and then Richard backed her up by explaining that Marjane does not have power in general, even as a woman, meaning that Persepolis illuminates woman minority.
I liked how Megan talked about the icecream that Marjane was holding (pg. 9) and as the panels progressed the icecream vanished. Of course later, when ms. B visited, we learnt that because of the transitioning of the panels, (the gutter or blanck space in between panels) our brain connects the story automatically. Meaning that the comic does not have to have everything drawn out because it would be assumed that the brain will catch on the idea of the panels.
iii) I have commented on other people's blogs about my opinion on their ideas.
3) Literary Feature Hunt.
~Fion commented on a panel (pg. 6) where little Marjane has a sun around her head and imagining of being a prophet. Fion mentioned that this panel can be described as hyperbole because it is Marjane's imagination which is extremely exaggerated. Yet it is a good thing because it shows the reader what our protagonist was really thinking about.
4) Snippets.
pg. 43
-The devil is framing the panel in which Marjane and her father and mather are standing in. This devil forshadows a war, in which it is contradictory to the dialog of the parents. It is interesting to see how both the parents' eyes are closed and Marjane's are open, looking straight at the reader. This shows how the parents cannot see what is yet to come, but Marjane can see, just like the reader has noticed the devil around the panel.
pg. 309
-I know this is really ahead, but it was the only Action-to-Action panel transition part that was really interesting for me. It starts from page 308 and ends on 309. It has no words, nothing is being said because the actions of people are happenening so fast, that if you were there you would not hear anything because of all the drama that will be happening around you. It reminded me of those silent movies where when the climaz is reached there are is no dialog because everything is happening really fast and there are a lot of transitions.
