When I first looked at this particular cartoon, it was clear that it was only about Snoopy. In the first panel has a picture of snoopy sitting on the top of his dog house with a typewriter in front of him. It seems to me that he is planning on writing about something but there is no indication as to what he could be thinking about. In the second panel, it is a picture of Snoopy, again with his typewriter, but now there is a thought bubble above his head. The bubble had stated, “Sometimes when you are a great writer, the words come out so fast you can hardly put them down on paper…”.By adding the bubble, this allowed for me to have a better idea as to what Snoopy was maybe thinking. But the exact topic is still unknown. In the third panel it goes back to Snoopy alone, sitting on top of his doghouse with his typewriter. At first glimpse, it seems that Snoopy must be thinking hard about what he wants to put on paper. But because there are no indications of frustration, it just seems as if he was purely thinking. The final panel is of Snoopy with a frowned look on his face, but another thought bubble was placed above his head. This time the bubble said, “Sometimes”. I was then able to make the assumption that Snoopy had some kind of writers block when he was trying to write whatever he was thinking about. Maybe he had so many thoughts in his head that is just escaped from him. Time being displayed in this particular comic strip seems to have happened over a longer period of time. It seems that each panel had to have had an adequate amount of time in between to prove Charles Schulz point. Looking at each panel, there doesn’t seem to be much emotion through the comic strip besides Snoopy’s face in the last panel. He looks a little worried that he now has writers block. There doesn’t seem to be any motion either. The only motion that I got out of this comic strip was possibly the movement of his arms on the typewriter.
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http://comics.com/Peanuts/2003-5-14/
Great job explaining the comic. I would suggest not explaining the comic in such depth, because the reader has a visual of the comic in front of them. I feel you did not go into depth of what the assignment was asking for, which was time, motion and emotion. My suggestion would be to chose a better comic, I feel as though this one did not contain very much motion, emotion and time and therefore made the assignment difficult to complete. However, great job noticing the emotion in Snoopy's face at the end.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Sam about going in to too much detail about the comic and going off course of what was asked. I think you did a really great job, though, putting the words from the bubble into quotes and helping us to understand what was going on at that time. I suggest that you talk about motion more, because it looks as if the paper in the typewriter was moving, and this could be the motion of the panels. Great job on your thoughts about this comic. keep it up!
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