McCloud & Berger

McCloud

Before You Read

3. I believe the reason why children use stick figures to draw themselves and others is because they see people and the world more simple than adults see it.  Because they see it so simple they will draw it as they see it. 

Summary

Scott McCloud believes in connecting with his audience by comics.  He shows the reader what he is trying to convey rather then actually writing it.  He uses simple, to the point drawings to get his point across.  He connects with readers in a different way than most authors do.

Synthesis

I believe that this article was most like Greenes article in the sense of that they both talk about framing.  Both think of framing differently, but they explain how they go about framing there article.     

Questions for Discussion

2. By McCloud using images rather then writing to get his point across, he connects with the reader visually with simple, to the point drawings.  If he would have used writing instead of this comics, it would have been more difficult to connect with the reader and get his point across. 

Applying and Exploring Ideas

1. I think that teaching strategies should contain more visual imagery.  Some students learn better with images rather than all text.  It makes learning a little bit more exiting when there is a picture to look at and to analysis.

4. By mask, McCloud means a framing tool.  Rather than letting the reader define the frame he does it for you.  He has let you into his perceptive through visual imagery and is in the conversation with you.  I don't know if it really effects my perception of things and people around me.  You can hide your emotions and how you feel about people with out the mask.

Thoughts

This article was a bit confusing.  I don't completely understand what he means my "the mask''.  I enjoy that McCloud used comics to convey his ideas it makes an article more interesting and easier to understand. 

Berger

Before You Read

If I were to draw a picture of a woman, I would draw her face forward and nothing else in the picture but her.  She should be the center of attention.  I would focus on making her look very sophisticated and beautiful so people want the focus on her and like the picture. 

Summary

In this article, Berger explains how women are always held to a standard.  There is always a a women is expected to look.  He explains that women are always dominated by men.  He also shows that even in 18th century art women are shown as objects rather then people and had to look a certain way. 

Synthesis

Berger's article and McCloud's article are very similar in the fact that they are both taking about images and how we perceive them.  Images can be perceived differently by different people, and they explain that the way you perceive them might be different from how someone else perceives them.  

Questions for Disscussion

2. I have seen images of posed women in ads in a magazine or on TV commercials.  You can pretty much see ads of posed women anywhere.  They compare to Berger's images because women in both pictures are held to a certain standard,  It might not be the same one, but there definitely is one. 

3. They are a little different because now women are a little more self sufficient and believe they can do whatever a can can do or accomplish.  Still, most women today believe they need to be a certain size or act and look a certain way because of a certain standard and they way they believe they should be perceived.

Applying and Exploring Ideas

3. I don't believe it is a determining factor on how something is viewed. Maybe I'm just not thinking enough into it, but i just don't believe that.

Meta Moment

I think it is necessary to read an article concerned with similarities and differences between nudes, spectator, viewer, art and advertisement so we can compare it to different ways of writing and how different writings are compared and perceived.

Thoughts

This article really made me think about our society and how women are perceived now, and in the 18th century.  It shows that now and then males are thought to be the prominent gender.  It made me think about how we always have a be a certain way to be viewed in a good way.