Conventions, Affordances, and Lessons of Visual Narratives
Faculty Sponsor
Dr. Fred Johnson, fjohnson@whitworth.edu
Session Type
Traditional Paper Presentation
Research Project Abstract
In a round table discussion, five panelists analyze the creation, conventions, affordances, and lessons of visual narratives, focusing on comics, graphic novels, “the Funnies,” and film. Presenting for roughly ten minutes each, the panelists will consider the development and present-day position of comedy comics, examine peripheral vision’s role in building tension and reader expectations, approach traditional prose novels as visual narratives, explore transmedia and the translation hierarchy of visual narrative genres, and adapt comics theory and conventions to sonic narratives.
Session Number
RS9
Location
Weyerhaeuser 304
Abstract Number
RS9-b
Conventions, Affordances, and Lessons of Visual Narratives
Weyerhaeuser 304
In a round table discussion, five panelists analyze the creation, conventions, affordances, and lessons of visual narratives, focusing on comics, graphic novels, “the Funnies,” and film. Presenting for roughly ten minutes each, the panelists will consider the development and present-day position of comedy comics, examine peripheral vision’s role in building tension and reader expectations, approach traditional prose novels as visual narratives, explore transmedia and the translation hierarchy of visual narrative genres, and adapt comics theory and conventions to sonic narratives.
