Friday, 13 February 2015

Graphic Narrative production : Graphic novel research

The book that I have chosen is :
This book shows the styles that are possible to create with graphic narrative. It starts with one basic scene of the created matt asking his wife the time and then opening the fridge, this on the first page was the typical style we rely on from a comic but then on the next page it shows you a different perspective. Madden then creates the scene multiple times using humour to show the multiple angles and styles that comics can actually take for example on one page he uses Bia tapestry but on the next he shows us the scene in a completely different style. The book throughout mostly stays in black and white colour code although there are a few colour prints they are rare. The use of this colour system could be for many reasons for example it causes drama, it is also the most stereotypical colour scheme for most comics as they used to be printed for children in black and  white newspapers that often don't use colour print. This traditional look is kept in many of the comic styles that this book is trying to represent meaning the Madden will be defeating the objective of copying other styles by using colour. 

The use of text within the narrative is limited as each page is the same scene although it does change with the perspective in certain scene there is few added words except those necessary to make the piece make sense such as adding the phrase "I thought" when the perspective had changed to his thought and feelings on the subject. The text is inciteful and gives us the needed look in some scenes to understand fully what is happening especially when the imagery is lacking such as themes shown in the book like minimalist where the scene is not clear. 

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