Week 11

Assignment: To create a comic using Photoshop and the Comic life programs. On Monday we had a critique. We also had to alter our comic using the comments from the critique.

Craft: Using photoshop I changed my pictures to have only two colors, red and yellow. I also used Comic Life. Comic Life is a very easy to use program. Basically you just find a template and drag the pictures into each box. The Comic Life program also has cool features like talk bubbles, thought bubbles, and cool text.

Composition: We had a critique on Monday in which classmates wrote comments on our comics. Using the comments I tried to adjust my story. Problem with the critique was that many of the comments were contradictory. For example one said: that the colors were dark but the story was good. While another one said nice colors but the story had no real resolution. Overall I would say the most consistent comment was that some of the colors were too dark. So I lightened up most of my photos. Thanks for the comments it looks much better, as shown in the picture.

Concept: My concept, in a nutshell, is that someone leaves an envolope for someone else who is later revealed as an assassin. There is a dog in the story. Everytime the man gets another assignment they place a milkbone in the envelople with the victims information. Some people were thrown off by the point of the dog, so there's your answer. That's confusing and I will try to make that more clear. Another comment was that it is unclear to whether the guy is an assassin. There are a couple clues that the guy is an assassin. One is that there is a list of names that are crossed off (Which was a great idea from a previous comment). It doesn't matter if you can't read the names, it is just a clue. The names have no significance. Then there is the gun on the wall. Another comment was that my story had no resolution. The last picture is the guy pulling a picture of President Kennedy out of the envelope. Which basically is saying that the President is his next assignment. That's my interptation. The cool thing about art is that you can really interpt it how you like. If you feel that he is an assassin going to kill the President, then you see the same thing that I do. If you think that it is just some guy that got an envelope with a milkbone and a picture of the president that has no significance, then you are also correct because that is your interptation. It makes sense.