Will Eisner
stated that the stories he writes are his “need to share my accumulation of
experience and observation” and as such his sorties contain pieces of realty,
of his realty, things that he had seen, experienced and felt.
As you may
know this collection of stories is told through a comic strip format and as
such the way the story is depicted can influence the reader. When you read a
line of dialogue from a character you have not been previously submitted to a
paragraph of their description nor the description of the background in which
they are displaced because these elements of the story are given to you by the
pictures. In the aftermath of already having read the book it is difficult to
picture any of the characters differently than their graphic design. If someone
were to read you the book, without showing you the pictures, how much of the
story would you be missing?
Bearing
this in mind I would like you to think about storytelling and the different
formats in which an artist can express their narrative.
If these
stories were told in a different format.
Would it
make them different? Would it change them?
Is there
any other Narrative Form you would like to see this story/stories in?
What format
would you use to tell your story?
By Mariana Mendonça
I believe that if we changed the format in which the story is written, we would loose the impact of the characters.
ReplyDeleteFor example, in the scene where "Ronald Barry" hits his wife and throws the baby across the floor we would have a pretty different image of what happened. At least for me, if I would have read "Ronald Barry grabbed his son and threw him across the floor" for example I would think it was a figure of speech or and exageration but with the comic strip I have the scene depicted right there and I know that that is exactly what he did.
Goldie's rape is another example. If we were to read the scene, we would know from the beggining that Benny did not penetrate her, in the comics, we are surprised by this fact later revealed by the doctor.
Ana Beatriz Pinto
In my opinion, if these stories were told in a different format, the impact it has on the readers would completly change. We talked in class about how to "read" images and I believe we do read them, sometimes unconsciously - like the characters' face expressions or poses or the position of objects around them. Still, I think it would be really interesting to read it in other Narrative Forms because I believe there were things in the graphic stories I did not notice or interpret the same way the author would describe them.
ReplyDeleteAna Igreja