What I found interesting in this weeks reading was the idea of editing in relation to both film, and comics. I thought that the reading was an excellent way to introduce the idea of editing, as it explained framing in a comic, and the different ways in which frames can be surrounded by gutters (meaning gaps). To write a comic, means the writer trusts the reader to interpret the story or make meaning of the story. The gutters in between the frames help to achieve this, as it breaks apart the story and creates gaps for the reader to make assumptions as to what has occurred during the gutter in the page.

Liam in his lecture also spoke about how gaps in a story can make meaning, through the use of editing when making a film. This ties in nicely to both the reading, and the workshop we did as we work on editing our Project Brief 2 short video. Whether it is gutters on a page, in-between frames in a comic book, or a cut to a new scene in a film, editing creates suspense, provokes a mood within a film, and allows the audience to make meaning of a scene. The question then is, how big can I gutter or a gap in a comic or film actually be? In the lecture, I discovered that there is no limit to how big a gap in a film van be, as long as there is some kind of link to the previous scene be big or small, the gap size itself doesn’t matter.