Wednesday, 6 August 2014

The Prisoner, An AMC Digital Graphic Novel (Usman Rashid)

In this blog post, I will be discussing an online digital graphic novel called The Prisoner, and what I thought about this graphic novel after reading it myself, as well as how this comic can broaden an individual awareness. Palm Pre, with AMC TV supporting this digital graphic novel on their show, created this graphic novel and to see this graphic novel, visit: http://www.amctv.com/the-prisoner-graphic-novel/
 Summary. This graphic novel talks about Rebecca Meadows, who is searching for her missing sister and her investigation leads her to The Village-- a shared experience in the unconscious minds of the people living there, developed by scientists who work for a corporation called Summakor, in order to treat patients with severe psychological illnesses. (AMC-The Prisoner Online).
            Opinion. After reading this graphic novel, I think that the digital artists who made this graphic novel as a digital comic, helped broaden both the visual and literary styles as well as the way graphic novels can be written. Graphic novels, in my opinion, help when building literary awareness to further better our comprehension of the English language, and to better understand what other kinds of literary styles are being implemented by other authors.
            Literary and Visual Devices. Some of the literary and visual devices that were being used were that, in terms of the artwork, the images were shown as clear and bold on the color and the way the characters were designed, to show what kind of mood the graphic novel is showing. Some of the key transitions that are listed in Scott McCloud’s, Understanding Comics, transitions between the panels of each image, is mostly moment-to-moment and scene-to-scene, in which different backgrounds are being used to help describe where the story is taking place. The gutter space between is about 2 seconds time between and each chapter ranges from 10-15 pages per chapter in the story. What is different about this graphic novel is that the digital images are introduced and given transitional movement to help position the images in the panel, rather than just see the image as a still figure.
            Overall, I was very impressed with this graphic novel since it showed me a different perspective of how literary devices can be shown and what other kinds of authors use different literary styles to portray their work on paper. I believe graphic novels can also expand our reading circles, depending on what kind of graphic novel it can be.



4 August 2014 <http://www.amctv.com/the-prisoner-graphic-novel/>.


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