IT - Mod 3, Part 1

Still need to read the book, but probably one of my favorite movies inspired by a Stephen King story. Basically just looked up the first scene on YouTube and chose some key shots to draw in the first scene where IT kills the little girl. I think that the ratio of the video compared to what I was drawing was different though; in some of the later closeup panels I had to give myself a smaller space, otherwise the face looked stretched out. Here's a super long image of all of the shots:

Reservoir Dogs - Storyboard for "Stuck in the Middle" Scene

Haven't cleaned these up yet, but here's the shot list to act as a Rosetta stone for my lovely handwriting.

1. Show hand turning the dial of a radio

2. Wide shot of Mr. Blond walking towards the cop

3. Close up on opening a large knife

4. Blonde pulls up a chair, looking at him from behind the cop at the cop’s eye level

5. Switch back between Blonde staring at the cop and the cops terrified face

6. Over the shoulder of Blonde showing the newly formed slash in the cops face

7. Blonde continues to stare as the cop freaks out (same behind the cop at blonde shot)

8. Camera centers on the two of them on either side as Blonde reaches for the cop’s ear and cuts it off

9. Close up of Blonde holding the ear next to his face so that the cop and the crowd can see

I think Eddie would approve...

Storyboard for part 3 of the third Module. Doing things chronologically would be far too organized

I used to believe (original)

I was planning on editing these a bit more, but figured since they wouldn't count towards the assignment at all to just post them as the original sketches. Enjoyed these a lot more than the actual project though haha...

Mod du

The last part of Module 2: create a comic using black and white and no words using the following words/ideas: family, dog, wall, fence, water.

Poetry and Comics

I actually started this assignment without reading the instructions, so maybe I'll post my earlier attempts eventually. Ultimately, I was told to " create a twelve-panel grid and have text in each panel that alternatively begins 'I used to believe/but now I know.' Here's what I ended up with:

Reaction to Blood in the Gutter - McCloud

The third chapter in Scott McCloud's graphic novel covered some things that I had already heard of; the gutter effect in comics, various types of transitions between panels, etc., but also covered some that I hadn't. In reading a variety of both western and Japanese comics, I had passively taken in the very different styles, whereas McCloud has cleverly pointed out where they can be so different. Western comics tend to focus much more heavily on "action to action" transitions and a few others, but very rarely a transition called "aspect to aspect" in which time is sort of at a stand still and various images are used to depict the mood or setting. Japanese comics, on the other hand, make much more frequent use of "aspect to aspect" transition in comparison to their Western counterparts. I'm sure that now when I go to read a graphic novel, I will be looking much more closely at the scene transitions than I would have prior to reading Blood in the Gutter.