CHAPTER 3 - BLOOD IN THE GUTTER
In this chapter McLoud talks about information which has been omitted from comics for a reason. Information is sometimes deliberately left out of movies, comics etc to allow the reader/viewer to deceide what happens to a character/situation etc on their own. A good example of this is in the Short film we watched in class a couple of weeks ago. It was about how cane toads are going missing (because of the culling of toads on the borders in Australia). Anyway in this short film the main character is talking about his mate who goes missing and he starts describing different reasons for his mate being lost. One of the scenes shows his mate jogging on the spot and the main character explains how he loves his sports. Then a massive golf club comes into play and the mate gets hit with the club. Now although we see direct contact between the golf club and the toad there is nobody actually using the club to hit him. It has been omitted. Thus because the viewer automatically fills in the blanks that someone is using the club. Another scene shows the toad looking for directions and then a truck is shown. The next screen shot shows the toad squished into the road as if he has just been run over. Now we dont see the toad being run over but we can safely assume that he has been.
By omitting scenes we are allowing a viewer to fill in the blanks of what happens next, it also allows us the artist to do less physical work and yet still get the same result. So Scott McLoud is trying to tell us that by omitting detail we still can have the same effect on our readers/viewers and save a lot of time.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
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