Understanding Comics by: Scott McCloud (Response)

When I first started to read Chapter 3, my first thought was, "Hey! I used to think the same way as a child! I'm glad I am not the only one!"

As I went further into reading it, it made me realize how little we think about closure. It's something so natural to us, that we don't dive further into thinking about it. The only time we think about closure is if we are creating something: a story, a photograph, a painting.
In photography we use closure when we are trying to convey a story... It's easier to show a story in more than one image and create closure and help guide your viewer into what direction you want them to see the story.

The example above is brilliant, because everyone definitely interprets things differently. Personally, from the comic above, I interpreted as if the guy screaming, "NO! NO!" is trying to save a kitten from the crazy ax man. Someone else might interpret it as the guy being murdered for stealing the crazy ax man's teddy bear. Everyone may interpret things differently.

This is excellent to look at because it helps thinking about positioning my own photography together to show a story. It shows the effect two images has next to one another.

I've noticed that whenever I position images together I tend to do this. If I were to do this, I'd need to actually write captions along with my images. However, if the audience is creative enough, they can very easily fill in the gaps with their own experience and knowledge and it is a whole new experience.

This made me think of this past summer when I went to a photography class my cousin was taking. The guy who was teaching the class was telling us about how there is never a single moment in a photograph if it's like the one above. Each person tells a separate moment and/or story. We should keep that in mind when taking photos of people and focus on a single thing that is going on, not the full moment. It's too much to take in for a single person, I think. They might also not think too much about what's actually going on, and you want them to think about it.

To me this is routine. Routine can be in every day life, but also life in general. This sort of thing happens to multiple people. People every where can relate to this. It shows time passing by in a very interesting way.
Overall, I found both chapters very interesting and insightful to read. There is so much potential in each photograph that has ever been photographed to be turned into a massive story (which I think would be super awesome to see done). Everything depends on the content of the image and the way they are put together.








(Now I have many ideas for different projects. Reading is one of many great ways to get inspired.)