I never knew I could apply what I learned in this course to the world away from writing.
After reading Scott McCloud's "Writing with Pictures" and also applying those concepts to my WP3, I realized that I had been familiar with all of these concepts before, and I never really put words to them. They were always just in the back of my mind when I designed pages or when I photographed events. In fact, his concepts are incredibly dire to the jobs and tasks that I had when I was in yearbook. So, naturally, I reflected on my works over the past few years and analyzed it in order to see if I followed those concepts, and if I didn't--then what could I have done to make it better?
1. Choice of Moment - In this photograph, I think I did follow McCloud's concept of moment. I captured the final pose of the dance that she is performing. However, without capturing what she is looking at, the photograph might look open ended. This is where 2. Choice of Frame comes into play. What is she pointing to? Looking at? I should have included it in the photograph, but there was not much room. However, the frame that I accidentally chose could be clever. There is a certain mystery and personal grasp of the photo since she is the only one in it. Ultimately, I would have loved seeing how the photograph would look if I captured the entire moment.
3. Choice of Image - One of the spreads in our yearbook is a 'showstopper page.' Hmm, sounds like a genre within a yearbook. But don't let me get carried away. Typically, in those spreads, we have one incredible photograph that took up the entire page--in order to get our students interested in whatever we were discussing. In 2013-14, we wrote a showstopping page on the LGBT community. So, in order have a photograph that not only matched the intensity of the photo, we had to find a concept that was pleasing to our audience. We decided that colorful hands linked together in a world of darkness would be a great metaphor for the story written.
4. Choice of Word - For that same spread, we had a specific title that helped with the cause of what we were writing about. We titled it "Unconditionally" and even placed the title in the middle of those hands.
5. Choice of Flow - Although McCloud addresses flow in a comic kind of way, I tried my best to apply it to how I designed an entire page. I used our seasonal style pages as an example of flow. where to look at in the first place. Although the photographs were rad, the way that the photographs connected to each other could have been better.
Unfortunately, this is where I declare that one of my spreads did not have the best flow. We had the captions all organized towards the bottom, numbered respectively to the photo. However, there was no exact order that the reader would look at it. In fact, it looked so compacted that he reader might not even understand
The reason why I linked McCloud to yearbook, overall, was to stress that what we learn in the Writing 2 course isn't strict to writing research papers or essays. We learned about genres and their conventions, which is definitely not limited to literary genres. Hell, on the first day we looked at country music and horror movies. We had freedom from Week 1, and applying what I've learned to what I have already done can help me improve myself in the long run. Whether it is writing an 8-page paper for a history class, or concocting a visually entertaining spread in a magazine (which is my dream job for the future), we can apply the main lessons we learned in Writing 2 anywhere.
After reading Scott McCloud's "Writing with Pictures" and also applying those concepts to my WP3, I realized that I had been familiar with all of these concepts before, and I never really put words to them. They were always just in the back of my mind when I designed pages or when I photographed events. In fact, his concepts are incredibly dire to the jobs and tasks that I had when I was in yearbook. So, naturally, I reflected on my works over the past few years and analyzed it in order to see if I followed those concepts, and if I didn't--then what could I have done to make it better?
1. Choice of Moment - In this photograph, I think I did follow McCloud's concept of moment. I captured the final pose of the dance that she is performing. However, without capturing what she is looking at, the photograph might look open ended. This is where 2. Choice of Frame comes into play. What is she pointing to? Looking at? I should have included it in the photograph, but there was not much room. However, the frame that I accidentally chose could be clever. There is a certain mystery and personal grasp of the photo since she is the only one in it. Ultimately, I would have loved seeing how the photograph would look if I captured the entire moment.
3. Choice of Image - One of the spreads in our yearbook is a 'showstopper page.' Hmm, sounds like a genre within a yearbook. But don't let me get carried away. Typically, in those spreads, we have one incredible photograph that took up the entire page--in order to get our students interested in whatever we were discussing. In 2013-14, we wrote a showstopping page on the LGBT community. So, in order have a photograph that not only matched the intensity of the photo, we had to find a concept that was pleasing to our audience. We decided that colorful hands linked together in a world of darkness would be a great metaphor for the story written.4. Choice of Word - For that same spread, we had a specific title that helped with the cause of what we were writing about. We titled it "Unconditionally" and even placed the title in the middle of those hands.
5. Choice of Flow - Although McCloud addresses flow in a comic kind of way, I tried my best to apply it to how I designed an entire page. I used our seasonal style pages as an example of flow. where to look at in the first place. Although the photographs were rad, the way that the photographs connected to each other could have been better.Unfortunately, this is where I declare that one of my spreads did not have the best flow. We had the captions all organized towards the bottom, numbered respectively to the photo. However, there was no exact order that the reader would look at it. In fact, it looked so compacted that he reader might not even understand
The reason why I linked McCloud to yearbook, overall, was to stress that what we learn in the Writing 2 course isn't strict to writing research papers or essays. We learned about genres and their conventions, which is definitely not limited to literary genres. Hell, on the first day we looked at country music and horror movies. We had freedom from Week 1, and applying what I've learned to what I have already done can help me improve myself in the long run. Whether it is writing an 8-page paper for a history class, or concocting a visually entertaining spread in a magazine (which is my dream job for the future), we can apply the main lessons we learned in Writing 2 anywhere.
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