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lmst340-In Class One "Rooster"

In this first slide, we can see a man slumped up by the stairs, presumably injured, while a woman in a black dress does some sort of pose in the foreground, maybe having hurt the man? In the next slide, we see a giant, almost anthropomorphized chicken or rooster looking over a woman that is lying on a cot. The third slide shows two anthropomorphized rooster/chicken standing over what seems to be a grave, with a woman in it. The fourth slide seems similar to the third, two anthropomorphized rooster/chicken are shown nealing over a woman in a chamber The Fifth, the rooster man is leaving a room where there is a dead body The Sixth, two women dancing while the rooster man sneaks thru a secret door The Seventh, roosters-man eating inside a tent, while two women look on in disgust The Last, Scary looking rooster-man seems to hunt two young ladies thru a hall.

lmst340-Assignment One "The Arrival"

The Arrival by Shaun Tan is a mesmerizing journey into a foreign land by a man trying to help his family survive. The whole time he is faced with having to understand and trying to be understood in this land, trying to make it as close to a home as he can, all the while making money for his loved ones back at his actual home. This story is told only using illustrations, no text is ever visible to guide us. This works extremely well because of the detail that is packed into every frame, and the sequences from one panel to another are extremely short where we see everything being played out in front of us, like an analog animation, or a strip of film. When it is not doing this "strip of film" effect it is doing something as powerful and as important, it is showing us panel after panel of detail that will then be pieced together in the next "strip" to finish telling the story where those details are pertinent. One of the "scenes" from this graphic novel t