Thursday, September 18, 2008

mousessss

The grandparent is shaded, perhaps showing age or wisdom but also definitely curiosity. Some characters are shaded and some are not because the characters who are not are the characters you should be focused on, they tell the main story and movie the narrative along while transitioning from box to box very smoothly. The effect of the comic strip makes it seem more relaxed towards the reader but at the same time, old fashioned, like something from back in the WW2 era would have been like, if it were ... say a cartoon, then it would probably would have been viewed as extremely boring and dosn't give it that authentic feel about old school movies. Everything was spoken except for the bottom right boxes of text, which were narrative. there are little bubbles coming from out of their general area that indicates whether or not they are talking. This comic strip would be less effective if there were no visuals, it would have had less impact and I wouldn''t have payed attention, there would be no visual stimuli for me to feast my eyes upon and i would probably fall asleep. Images interact with texts by enhancing them and reinforcing what is stated, a picture is worth a thousand words, but a picture with words is worth a thousand words plus the words in your story :). The purpose is to show the turmoil and the impact of how the Jews were persecuted by the Nazi's and forced to give up all of their privacy and register to be "investigated" and they ended up being put into a concentration camp. He sets the tone of the story by starting off with two grandfather mouses that die due to the fact of a concentration camp and also mentions Auschwitz which hints the story will have something to do with a concentration camp.. I see that all Jews were outraged about having to register, and some Jews were suspicious about what the nazi's were really after. Which they had every right to be.

Sunday, September 7, 2008

O so mysterious

This video appeals to me because I myself used to be a crazy into video games and electronics. This video appealed to millions of people that were waiting years for the sequel to arise. The first time this video appeared on national television at the E3 convention millions of people held their breath, zoned everything else out of their mind, and focused. I think it would be drastically different if it were in a different genre such as a picture. In the video it shows different actions and visuals that suggest that Earth is desolate and suggests the covenant (bad guys) have taken over Earth. It also displays a couple new additions to the game such as the bubble sheild. If it was just a picture, It would all be left to a persons imagination, leaving them to critically think about the minimalist detail involving anything and everything. The video only partially shows what is truely going on. If they revealed the entire plot then it would lose effect and leave nothing to dwell on... to feed the fires of wanting to get the game right when it comes out to see what happens. This addictive behavior used to be my life, and so was Halo 3.