Week 2: Narrative Design

1.  Discuss some of the more compelling ways that Asterios Polyp demonstrates storytelling through illustration.
• In Asterios Polyp the artist pushes the use and portraying forms with different lines, shapes, and colors. For example, whenever Asterios is acting on instinct like a repetitive sequence he's drawn as empty structured lines that have a mechanical like quality to them. This style was also used for panels where Asterios is disconnected or dissociating from the rest of the world around him. Another style used it very wavy, curving, almost melting shapes to show his emotion of self doubt or reluctance like on page 39. 
• On page 61 when Asterios meets and speaks to Hana they are each drawn in their own separate style and color. Once they speak to each other and hit it off, the illustrator starts merging the two styles together, the reader can see this as the characters influencing each other through bonding.
2. Discuss how storytelling may play a part in your own work, whether you're a filmmaker, illustrator, graphic designer, computer animator, or creative writer, etc.
• The vast majority of artist always try to relay some sort of message through their work. Whether it be a feeling, story, lesson, or emotion depends on how well the artist expresses it and how the audience will react in turn. All artist follow basic rules of fundamentals which are the foundation of art, society, and humans. 
• Society has changed and developed over centuries and because of this, created a standard that people follow without even realizing it. The psychology of colors is a great example of this. At some point in time certain colors didn't have concrete meanings, its because of us as a society that we began to define what we think of certain colors. For example the color red is closely tied to certain adjectives such as aggressive, dangerous, passion, and power. Deciding what object we apply the color to changes the outcome reaction, a red spike says "danger don't touch" while a red flower is inviting for someone to pick. By applying the right combination to our work we influence the story being told to the audience.
• As a Game Art major here at Ringling, storytelling plays a fairly large role in the work I will continue to make. By creating environments I am giving the player a setting, set dressing or decoration give them a sense of space and time, lighting gives them a mood, color influences their choices, and so on. In our line of work our main priority is to provide the player with an experience, to live the sotry itself and immerse themselves in it. 

Week 1: Your Position in the Mediascape

Woman Waiting to Take a Photograph by David Eggers

1. What is the time frame of this vignette?
• I would say that this vignette takes place sometime in the present or within the past decade based off his choice of vehicle the woman owns.

2. What does the text imply about photography and about photographers?
• Photographers are highly aware of the smaller interactions occurring in the world around them. The woman is self aware that she is exploiting the people that she features in her work and is benefiting from this. 

3. What is the writer’s attitude toward the woman? What words and phrases suggest that attitude?
• The writers attitude seems to be judgemental towards the woman. He talks about how this woman takes photos as a hobby but sees her work as having enough potential to be in a gallery or bought by a collector. When Eggers says,"This, for the viewer of her photograph when it is displayed...will prove that she, the photographer, has a good eye for the inequities and injustices of life, for hypocrisy and the exploitation of the underclass." he knows that the woman is exploiting her subjects through photography but is understanding in her ambition to do so.

4. How does the writer’s repetition of the term “Go-Getters” function in the text?
• The author wants to emphasize the label used for that specific group of people and how its definition doesn't accurately represent the people in that area.

5. How does the final sentence build on observed details?
• How much this woman and the author believes in the potential of her photography skills in composition of subject matter. The woman knows that through the photo she's about to take she is proving her knowledge of subject matter at the cost of exploiting the people in her photograph.

6. What new idea or surprise emerges in the final sentence?
•  It also brings the idea of how the underclass are exposed to labels in order to hide the truth of the matter. How "Go-Getters" has a positive connotation but the group in this area are Go-Getters in a more negative light of society.