In this comics created by Scott McCloud, a concept of ‘Closure’ is established to the viewers. Closure is how the brain works to connect one scene to another or one panel to another.
McCloud concluded that there are several types of panel-to-panel transitions that would appear in comics:
- Moment-to-Moment
- Action-to-Action
- Subject-to-Subject
- Scene-to-Scene
- Aspect-to-Aspect
- Non-sequitur
It is quite hard for me to read through the comics as I was not much of a fan of comic books nor the arrangements of the panels in them. But I tried my nest to scheme through the key parts.
McCloud as trying to articulate the idea of our eyes and brain work together to connect what we see during comics/TV shows/films and make assumption of what happens when it is not shown in the images/frames. Our brain works out a way to make sense of what we see by imagination to fill in the blanks/scenes not shown.
From this comics, I figured that it would be easier for the audience to make sense of what the see and connect the sequences if the the work was edited using the aforementioned 6 types of transitions.