Quick Response Assignment (to help with SP#2)

NOTE: Be sure to watch the video in the post below first. It will help you with your Short Paper #2 assignment, as well as this short writing. 

In a COMMENT, I want you to add words to each frame of the Spiderman comic below. Try to determine what story the pictures alone are telling, and then add words to change that story--help us see something different, more complex, or more humorous, or more surprising. 

Remember that when words and images come together, they can change what we see and make us tell a different story. McCloud, in his book Understanding Comics, talks about many of the word + image relationships, such as "Additive" (when words add something to the image), "Parallel" (when words and images are both telling different stories), and "Interdependent" (when words and images each add something important to the story, and complement each other). 

In your COMMENT, just write Frame #1: words... Frame #2: more words... Have fun with it and think about how words change pictures and tell different stories. This is what I want you to examine in Short Paper #2, so consider this useful practice! 

This is all you have to do for this week, other than e-mail me the Short Paper #2 assignment by Friday. For next week, we'll start reading Capote's In Cold Blood, our very last book. I'll give you questions and reading selections for that book on Friday. Good luck and let me know if you have any questions!