Scott McCloud explores closure as the “idea or phenomenon of observing the parts but perceiving the whole” in the comic ‘Blood in the Gutter’. When we understand or group together images to create meaning, and it is often implied and understood by the viewer through preconceived experiences and ideas. Closure in my understanding is based on our assumptions, and presuming we can predict or draw conclusions from the proposed images. In comics we give the images context because of its surrounding images, and the writer therefore does not need to explain every detail. We can apply this same idea to film, as closure takes place 24 times per second as each individual image is collated as a whole and context is created. For project brief 2, we can assume closure when apply all elements of sound, text, image and video and hopefully an understanding will be drawn from the people who view it. It is amazing to think that closure is almost an automatic response our brain makes, as we make associations and conclusions from the placement of two images. This shows how important alinement in editing it, an entirely different meaning can be formed if a different placement is created. This is similar to what Liam Nord spoke about in editing, and i suppose that the harder it is to create closure, the more the viewer needs to think for themselves and produce their own individual idea, meaning or context in a situation. Different types of cuts and bigger gaps in the relevance of each alined image is a particular style of editing i would like to use. As McCloud explains, subject to subject or scene to scene transitions are the most common and often used in Western media, i would like to try to use a more abstract form of alignment in non-sequitor or aspect to aspect transitions. Blood in the Gutter is a comic and therefore is very different from film, but the fundamentals of closure can be taken and applied in any form of media.