I have to admit, that when I was engaging with "These Waves of Girls" and "Red Ridinghood" I felt like I should be on acid in order to "get" them. They brought me back to a time in high school when the idea of watching Pink Floyd's The Wall without being stoned was unheard of and downright stupid. I realize that the content itself, the text, wasn't the point - the mediums were. You can use screeching music, seizure inducing flashes of colour and terrible graphics to convey your message, evoke emotions and challenge the traditional definition of literature and storytelling. I remember being in kindergarten and using pictures to tell a story, no words at all, just pictures. I could describe the cat in my story with one image that got my point across far easier and more accurate than with words. One thing I noticed is that by using images, movement and sound the author takes away the reader's imagination, I compare it to reading the book then watching the movie. When reading the book the characters will take on not only the author's description, but my biases and experiences. When I watch the movie I am told what that character looks like and it's very rarely what I have pictured.
I have to admit, that when I was engaging with "These Waves of Girls" and "Red Ridinghood" I felt like I should be on acid in order to "get" them. They brought me back to a time in high school when the idea of watching Pink Floyd's The Wall without being stoned was unheard of and downright stupid. I realize that the content itself, the text, wasn't the point - the mediums were. You can use screeching music, seizure inducing flashes of colour and terrible graphics to convey your message, evoke emotions and challenge the traditional definition of literature and storytelling. I remember being in kindergarten and using pictures to tell a story, no words at all, just pictures. I could describe the cat in my story with one image that got my point across far easier and more accurate than with words. One thing I noticed is that by using images, movement and sound the author takes away the reader's imagination, I compare it to reading the book then watching the movie. When reading the book the characters will take on not only the author's description, but my biases and experiences. When I watch the movie I am told what that character looks like and it's very rarely what I have pictured.
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