In ‘The 9/11 Report’ one of the most
important features is the description of the plane crash in New York.
Basically, the author used quite colourful images which could deliver the
information towards cruel moments of this crash (Jacobson & Colon 8).
Although a considerable amount of research has been dedicated to this problem
but few attention has been paid to the usage of color.
First
of all, the fierce moments of the airplane crash have been depicted by colors.
For instance, when the airplane crashed a skyscraper, he used a red color in
order to portray blood (Jacobson & Colon 8).
Secondly,
another section of visual information has been devoted to the terroristic attack.
For instance, in the World Trade Center the man, who evacuated people, said
that ‘Everyone’s running up to first class, I have got to go’ (Jacobson &
Colon pp. 12).
Thirdly,
the aspect of dangerous situation has been portrayed by the author with such
colors as red, black and grey (Jacobson & Colon 13). Hence, it appears that
colors play an important role in the process of depicting leading information.
To
conclude, it seems that in order to portray dangerous moment the author of ‘The
9/11 Report’ managed to deliver main information about cruel and fierce moments
of the terroristic attack towards the World Trade Center in New York. The
author was successful in this effort because of the fact that the balance
between visual and text information is kept in the comic book. The importance
of such balance is well pointed out by McCloud who compares text and pictures
in comics to “partners in a dance, and each one takes turns leading” (156).
Works cited
Jacobson, Sid, and Colón, Ernie. "The 9/11 Report: A graphic Adaptation". Hill and Wang in New York.
2006. Pdf.
McCloud,
Scott. Understanding Comics. New
York: HarperCollons Publishers Inc, 1994. Print.
Ahamad, I like the way you chose to approach this blog we chose to approach this in a similar way as to what colors represent what. Such when you mention the use of red to represent the blood after the crash you explain why he chose that color and why. In my blog i chose the frame when the plane was being hijacked and explained why the flight attendant was a blue color. I liked the way you looked into this blog and chose to write about it. You had a lot of evidence backing up your examples which made your blog that much stronger. Good job.
ReplyDeleteAhmad, I think you did a really good job on this blog as you always do. You picked great examples to back up your ideas. You also made the topic of color very important. You did a job at explaining why this particular comic and the color is important. I really liked your introduction and how you referred to the the comic itself being important but nobody really noticed the color involved. I think color plays a huge role in this comic and believe you did explaining why and how. Overall, I think you did a really good job and followed the blog prompt pretty well like usual. So, great job!
ReplyDeleteGooding evening, Ahmad. Your structure as well as usual, I really like it. You gave a nice lead-in that told us the background. And your conclusion is nice too. In the second to fourth paragraph, you made 3 type viewpoints to the color of The 911 Report. You did the argument well, but how about working more on the analysis of color based on McCloud’s points? Your translation words like “first of all”, “To conclude” let your blog very clear. By the way, I wrote “To conclude” as “to conclusion”, I did not find it was a grammar mistake until read your blog.
ReplyDeleteAhmed, you offer a pretty solid look at some of the aspects of color in the 9/11 comic. What I would like to have seen was a quote from McCloud about color that you then demonstrate in action in the comic. Do remember that boot titles only get italics, not italics and quotation marks.
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