It's A Bird : "Words, words, words..."

Words, or lack thereof

  -There are a few parts of this section in which the words stand out, mainly they are in the section of Sealge's fake advertisement for Kryptonite.  In some of the frames the only word is "Kryptonite" and it stands out like it was the slogan of the ad.  With a very un-detailed picture, the word Kryptonite is left to make you imagine everything about the lump in the middle of the frame.

L.A. Confidential vs. Double Indemnity

  This medium to long shot at a high angle from Double Indemnity shows Walter Neff walking into the living room of Mrs. Dietrichson and the narration focuses on how smoky the room still was from the previous night.  Besides just being talked about the shot really shows how the blinds cast shadows trough the smoke and onto the walls.  

In this long shot from L.A. Confidential, the final fight scene when Exley and White are holed up in the motel room focuses on the shadows and smoke in the air.  While the dialog of the scene doesn't focus on these visual aspects as much as the scene from Double Indemnity, the detail is much more prominent  here.

These two scenes have a lot in common, they focus on the smoky air and the shadows from the light outside, but they also contrast in a noticeable way.  One scene mentions the details in a verbal way while the other lets the image do itself justice.

It's A Bird : Images

Foregrounding and Backgrounding
  -On page 22, the picture at the very bottom of the page, you can see that Clark Kent and the other characters that were described are all somewhere in the picture.  Clark is in the middle because he is the focus of Superman, he is Superman, and the other people are all just part of the story.
Shadowing/Lighting
  -On page 24, the picture of the person with Huntington's Disease, the person is shown in a grey light with heavy shadows behind them.  This is showing the debilitating capabilities that the disease has and the plague it has taken on Seagle's family.
Shots
  -There are a lot of shots in this section of the book that are medium shots with more than one person in them.  Even still there are a few close-ups of one face.  The close-up shots are generally used when the mood of the scene gets more serious, it is also used when Seagle is talking on the phone with his mom.

It's A Bird : Frames

  Size and Shape
    -Most of the frames were about the same size.  Some frames were smaller because they were focusing in on someone's face.  Some seemed to be stretch out to the sides because they were focusing on something wider like a building.  Every frame was either a square or a rectangle.
  Organization of Frames
    -Most pages have between 5-9 frames and it seems to be that the ones with more frames have less content in them.  The wordier frames are on the pages with fewer frames and that causes me to read the pages with less frames slower.

Framing

 I think that it is so much fun to take great pictures and I love taking them even from my iPhone.  These pictures were all taken from my iPhone and I think they are some of my best.

 I took this picture of a cloud a while ago.  When I took this picture I did frame it so that the majority of the cloud was centered but the parts of the cloud that draw your eye are not in the "lazy frame".  

  I saw this Jellyfish at the Shedd Aquarium.  Jellyfish are beautiful creatures with the way that they move and I saw this one and took its picture.  I knew that it wasn't centered in the frame but I thought that would make your eyes move from the middle where the tentacles are up to where the body is.

This is my dog Olive.  She was standing in my yard with the sun hitting her in the face.  I knew that I could take a decent straight on picture of her but I though that showing more of my yard gave more of a scene to the shot.  Also I was thinking that since she is turned in a direction if I made her back go up against the edge of the frame it could give direction.