Blog 3
As a Computer Animation major watching the silent film was
very interesting. The fact that the actors were able to convey the message with
just action and no dialog is very impressive. I think that as a whole the
silent films, while fun to watch, impede on the actors ability to act. Every movement
is overly exaggerated and must be slowed down or repeated for the viewer to get
the message. In this case it feels more like a play the way they have to act
everything out. It was unfortunate that I was unable to read much for this
week. I rented out Tin Tin book 1 from the library but I never really got the
chance to read much into it. I have read many comics books, manga, and the
comics from the newspaper section. In
all honesty I prefer stories in this form. There is something about seeing the
images and reading the characters inner thoughts and being able to piece the
rest together that really gets to me. I like imagining how the actions would
look moving or how the characters sound and interact. Comics are such a
versatile media; it is one of the few mediums where we can get the character’s
innermost thoughts while also getting action and the regular dialog. I feel
like other medias cannot pull all these elements off. In film it is quite hard
to get the characters thoughts and feelings and action is difficult to achieve
in books.
