week 2# reading

This reading is a caricature not a passage so it is easy to understand what the whole caricature wants to teach and explain.

At the beginning, the boy who is the subject of the caricature, like a teacher to explain what is closure. Closure is a abstract concept, that based on our experience of our senses, and the boy mentions that our perception of reality is based on faith and act as faith. In daily life, the closure helps us to complete the world we live in. in photograph, film, electronic media and television, people use the closure unconsciously. People have imagination to combine the agent of change, skipping time and changing motion, and the closure is the base of imagination.

After explaining the closure, six panel-to-panel transitions are mentioned and interpreted. Firstly, moment-to-moment transition requires very little closure because the changing thing in the frame is less. Secondly, action-to-action transition be used in a special situation that there is only one subject in a moment and frame. Then, the subject-to-subject transition be used in a situation that the frame stay within a scene or idea, in order to note the reader necessary thing happening. Moreover, scene-to-scene transition is used to transport reader and audience across significant distances of time and space. Next, aspect-to-aspect transition is used to set a wondering eyes on different aspects of places idea and mood, passing time for the most part. And the last one is non-sequitur, the most special one, because there is no logical relationship between panels.

In the next part, boy talks about the different cultures between traditional western art and eastern art. Western art do not worry about the whole but focus on the goal-oriented culture while the eastern art is cyclical and labyrinthine. Due to the difference, western artist and eastern artist are used to use different transition methods.

Well, at the end, boy emphasizes that we must to find out balance between too much and too little when we are doing video or caricature.

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