Manny Week One: Class Act

On February 26,2009, Ms.Brownrigg came is as our guest speaker and gave us the knowledge that we need to know about graphic novels. She said the key terms that we need to know about visual art were: --perspective

-line

-shape

-texture

-style

-negative space

-synesthetics

One thing that you got to remember is that structure, layout and color=meaning. For Comics, the key terms were:

-Panel

*(Transitions)

--Gutter

-Closure

-Dealing with time

*(Expansion)

*(Compression)

-Negative Space

The Different types of transitions that Ms.Brownrigg showed us were:

-Moment to Moment

- Action to Action

-Subject to Subject

-Scene to Scene

-Aspect to Aspect

-Non-Sequitur

-Symbolic/Figurative