Launching the Imagination / Pg. 331-357 / 355

Launching the Imagination / Pg. 331-357 / 355

Character Driven Narrative:
We strongly identify with the trials and tribulations of others. As a result, character-driven narratives that are biographically based can be especially engaging.

The Opening Sequence:
Because most narratives are so dependent on the interplay between cause and effect, the first image that is shown substantially affects each subsequent action. As a result, many directions use the opening sequence to create a sense of anticipation that will pull the viewer into the story.

Conflict:
Inner conflict or conflicts between characters often generate the cause-and-effect relationships on which a narrative is build.

The Closing Sequence:
Especially with a mystery story, the closing sequence is as important as the opening sequence. A powerful closing can reveal an elusive truth, resolve outstanding conflicts, pose a question, or happen home and important point.

Narrative Compression:
Duration, framing, editing, and narration become especially charged with meaning when a television commercial is designated.

The Hard-Sell:
This relies on rational argument and clearly presents one major point.

The Soft-Sell:
Focuses on emotion.

All ads rely on a clear message, strong imagery, and simple communication.

Nonnative:
Many forms of sequential art, however, are nonnarrative in structure.

Categorical, rhetorical, and abstract are common nonarrative approaches.

Interdisciplinary Arts:
Two or more disciplines are fused to create a hybrid art form.

Exploring the Visual Book:
Visual Book: the experimental structure that coveys ideas, actions and emotions using multiple images as an integrated and interdependent format.

Selecting a Text:
Generate Potential:
A brief evocative text can act as a springboard for the book artist, while an overly descriptive text may become a trap. More than verbal polish, a text must provide an opening for further development.

Music: Each language has a distinctive aural quality, or music, as well as a distinctive grammatical structure.


Works Cited: 

Steward, Mary. Launching the Imagination: A Comprehensive Guide to Basic Design. 4th ed.
          New York, Ny: McGraw-Hill, 2012, 2008, 2006, 2002. Print

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