Sketch 9: Happy Gilmore

As a kid Adam Sandler was one of my favorite actors/comedians, so I thought it would be fun for this assignment to recreate one of his scenes. Even though he isn’t the most respected actor, I think some of his early films are entertaining. I knew I would be limited with resources so I tried to keep things simple. I chose the closest shirt I had, borrowed a golf ball from my roommate, and used a cup as the hole. I didn’t want to dig into the ground, so I decided it would be best to surround the cup with pine needles instead. I got several friends to come out and help in the background and actually take the shot. Although the image isn’t that close, I think the general theme is conveyed.

The Notebook

For this assignment, I wanted to recreate a movie scene that most people would recognize. I could’ve asked more of my friends to get involved in this project, but sometimes too many people just makes things too complicated, so I tried to think of a relatively simple scene that could be recreated with just me and Katherine. I could’ve made the photos more similar but finding a more blue background, with Katherine wearing a white shirt which was damp, but other than that, I think its a pretty good recreation – if only we could’ve kept straight faces.

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Sunday Sketch: Recreate a Movie Scene

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Recreating this scene was super fun. I chose to do the movie/TV show M*A*S*H. M*A*S*H was a program about army medics in the Korean War who used a lot of humor to survive in the area. When creating the photo, I was thinking of ways I could implement not only myself into this project, but people/things that are of importance to me. Immediately, my mid went to my EEMS kiddos. I spend the majority of my time with them and we have all become a really tight group of friends. So, once I decided I wanted to use EEMS as a way to recreate a photo, I knew M*A*S*H was the perfect medium. Saying these guys were excited to recreate the photo was an understatement. They wanted the full effect with the red outfit and matching uniforms. We did our best and this is probably the best shot out of the 30 we took!

Recreate a Movie Scene

For this Assignment I wanted to take the least flattering photo of myself that was physically possible and put it on the internet. Because that’s always fun.

I wanted to recreate a scene from early film history, so I asked a friend to help me smash an oatmeal cream pie from the vending machines in my dorm into my right eye so that I could recreate the image of the grimacing moon from Le Voyage Dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon).  

Literacy Comic Reflection

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For the reflection on your literacy comic, I am most interested in you thinking about how it was different to write your literacy narrative as a comic — how did you think differently once the visual component was added?, how did that help you to see the story you were trying to tell in different terms?, was your analytical thinking process any different? How have your thoughts about your alphanumeric literacy narrative changed in the process of transforming it into a comic?

I’d also like you to discuss choices you made in creating your comic and try to explain why you chose the way you did. Especially if there’s something you were really trying to do in your comic which you felt you couldn’t realize as perfectly as you would if you had a lot more time, more resources, or if you could have hired an illustrator to turn your vision into exactly what you wanted. If there are aspects of your comic where you have a clear sense of what you were trying to accomplish and how you would have done so if some things were different, then explain that in your reflection. Doing so allows you to demonstrate that you have the knowledge you need about this sort of writing even if you have not yet developed all the skills necessary to make that knowledge visible in the final artifact you’ve produced.

Literacy Narrative Comic

The process of making this comic was a unique one. Starting with the assignment of writing the text version of the narrative was an essay I had never tried before. Then converting it into a short comic was even more of a challenge. I debated for a while over what to include and how to include it. I finally decided to focus mainly on the part of my narrative that talked about my first comics/graphic novels; it seemed relevant. After trying to sketch a few different character types, I got the idea to draw it in the same style as the first graphic novel: Bone. The odd white figures seem out of place to most people but I think it really added to the tone, for me at least. My first draft had a really confusing panel structure- we had just finished reading Palestine by Joe Sacco and his dense illustration style must have influenced me. I got critiques on it in the group review session but I knew it was coming. I changed the structure to more panels and now I think the comic works much better and reads more fluently.

I really enjoyed doing the assignment because it was fun not only to remember all those days reading comics, but I really liked the cartooning part, especially since I was able to imitate the Bone style.

Literacy Narrative: Comic Reflection

Through the process of creating this comic book, I learned a number of things. First, writing comics is HARD WORK and extremely time-consuming. Unlike an essay, which you can go back and change during the revision stages, changing a panel within your comic means changing the REST of the panels in your comic. This can be a tedious and frustrating process. However, this process helped me learn and acquire a deeper understanding of comics and their subtleties. It definitely allowed me to develop a newfound appreciation for comics and comic book writers. It’s interesting how they have a reputation of being frivolous and juvenile, when they are in fact extremely complex and multi-faceted beneath the surface level. Comics make for a very stimulating reading experience in my opinion, and I hope readers of my comic would say the same!

Combophoto – Corona AM

CombophotoThis assignment took a LONG time to complete. And unlike the past assignments, it wasn’t just the initial brainstorming stage that made it so time-consuming, but every stage. It was extremely difficult to imagine two objects that could fit seamlessly together, especially given an unlimited number of objects to choose from. I changed ideas probably a dozen times until I finally landed on these two. The idea finally entered my mind when I stopped trying to think of images and started trying to think of a story, or in this case a joke. As a student on a college campus, the idea of drinking (and hangovers) came to mind, and I eventually made the comparison of a can of beer to a bottle of Advil. Even with the idea in mind, the combination process was extremely difficult. I mixed-and-matched a number of beer cans before coming across a can that resembled an Advil bottle in size and color-scheme: the Corona Extra can. I am really happy with how it turned out, though I do wish I could have found a higher-resolution image of the Advil bottle, and I definitely think I could have come up with a more clever name!

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