How cute is this! This comic consists of four frames involving Woodstock in all frames and Snoopy in the last. All frames are in a longshot format, in which we can see the characters wholly. The first frame includes Woodstock the bird sitting on the edge of Snoopy’s water bowl. Woodstock is known for his silly and carefree idiosyncrasies. In the second frame, the little bird falls asleep on the edge of the water bowl. An eminata is used here to represent sleep with a “Z” caption. The reader knows that time has gone by because the bird was awake and then has fallen asleep. I assume he is feeling relaxed to do this. Next, motion lines are present as well as splashing water as the reader only sees the water bowl and Woodstock is missing. It is obvious that Woodstock has fallen into the water bowl. Motion is very clear in this third frame. Finally, Snoopy looks over the edge of his doghouse probably to look at what is causing the commotion. It may have taken him a second to get there but time has moved forward, though the rate is unclear, throughout the strip. The reader sees either a caption or a thought bubble from Snoopy expressing a bit of frustration and surprise as he says, “That’s just what I need…feathers in my drinking water!” Woodstock is also taken aback as he climbs out of the bowl in some shock. As you can see, time, motion, emotion and sound are apparent in this strip
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Nice job, it seems you have a basic understanding on how time, motion, and emotion are portrayed in comics. I like how you recognized how time was moving forward at an unknown rate but as for motion throughout the panels and in between the panels, you were able to recognize that Woodstock had obviously fell into the water bowl by the motion lines for a splash. BUT you don't actually see him falling. One second he's there, the next he's in the water bowl. Kinda neat how your mind fills in that gap huh?
ReplyDeleteI agree from the first sentence: "How cute is this!" :) You explained the rate as "unclear" even though it is obvious the movement has occurred, and you're very right. I liked your pick, it was very cute!
ReplyDeleteI love your choice for the commic and your first line. If I ever get a pet bird, I am going to name it Woodstock and teach it to do everything like in the commic, except for the whole flying head first into trees thing. I also like how you incorporated some of the comic vocabulary.
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