Peer Review Recap Part 4

Peer

Print, Comics, Videos: Similarities and differences

You Tube: is it good? is it bad? is it writing?

I haven't done a video project in years, well, since high school, so its been about two and a half years. Back then I would make videos for my french class. I would make these epic, black and white films. I would force my friends to speak french and do silly things like wear berets and play the accordion on the streets of Ann Arbor.

This project was slightly different. First of all, I wasnt in control, no matter how much i wanted to be. Also, I was less interest
I have very strange feelings about YouTube. In many ways I can see how the videos on the site are

Peer Review Recap Part 3

Once again, I didn't have a very good experience with peer review. Only one of my group mates sent me his essay. He chose to simply send me a copy and pasted version via email. It had no formatting and the subject was "edit or not". One of the other members kept sending me emails that didn't have a working link. Also, once again, I didn't receive very good feedback.

Going off of Chase's thoughts:

"One of the e-mails didn't even work, the other two sort of helped but weren't as far in depth. There needs to be a way to monitor if people actually gave feedback. Without that monitoring people are freely able to just do what they want, even if that includes that they don't do anything. E-mail is most definately the most useless form of peer review so far though. It is too hard to get useful feedback. So if I was you I would just take out this form of review and leave it on the google site, and maybe have them start a new document with just the info of who they reviewed, so that you can check if it was actually done or not."

I agree with him. I think that the best way to do peer review is on google docs. You can see who is participating, people HAVE NO CHOICE in participation, and its all public.

Reading and Writing About Comics ala McCloud Part 2

http://www.davidgaddis.com/piercing.html

I found this comic on David's blog. I have to say I completely agree with him. I would like to see what Scott McCloud would think of this comic. Perhaps too much happens between panels. There are no words, just images. I need words to understand this comic. I'm wondering if the artist is being vague and mysterious on purpose? He also uses a combination of color and black and white. I can't even figure out the color scheme. There are vibrant and muted colors, then grayscale, then more muted colors. I wouldnt say the comic is non-sequiter , though, because there is some sort of a flow in the scenery. I just cant decide if there is a plot that follows.

Comics and the Web: Similarities and Differences

Reading and Writing About Comics ala McCloud (2)

In Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud describes what makes a comic a comic. He provides a definition (juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence, intended to convey information and/or to produce an aesthetic response in the viewer) and then shows us the different tools comics use when making a comic. He also explains the balance between words and art in comics.

The comic I looked at, evil diva (http://www.evildivacomics.com/p6.html), meets the definition. The main character is Diva. She is a girl with evil parents who encourage her to be evil. Her problem is that she doesnt want to be evil. She does nice things and gets frustrated with her parent's dissapproval of her goodness.

One of the things I like most about this book is McCloud's explanation of what happens between the panels and how you are supposed to "assume" what happens between the panels. He calls this closure. In Evil Diva a lot happens between panels. Most of the action occurs between panels. When Diva is walking down the hall at school, it isnt drawn. You only see when she pauses, or there is interaction. As a reader, you get to assume what happens between panels, so in many ways it is personalized by you. I think this is why some people connect with comics. They feel creatively responsible for the comic.