Why are comics and poems alike: Sequence p2
WHAT’S A SEQUENCE? MUSIC EXPERIENCE BY THE WIKI
«In music, a sequence is the restatement (fancy word for repetition) of a motif or longer melodic (or harmonic) passage at a higher or lower pitch in the same voice…>>1
AHA…WHAT ABOUT COMICS?!
If you mix all that together and think my word is worth something; then:
A sequence is a succession of images in regard to the actions taking place in the different scenes of a story, which are implicitly related one to each other.
Puff, I sweated to get that. Yes, I know. But I’m only your average Jane trying hard using her brain.
REGULARITY AND PREDICTABILITY
Such a definition takes us back to graphic communication features: regularity and predictability.
I know. It’s almost as if I could see your confused face. “I don’t get it”, is what the gears in your brain go turning as you are for sure thinking: “Are you talking nonsense?” Nonsense is my second name so I won’t discuss that.
Regularity means to favor the elements in an equal scale or shape to create an order or a correspondence. That’s how you create a bunch of vignettes in the same size and create patterns in the same way music does2. 1, 2, 3… 1, 2, 3…4.
Predictabilityis to use such a pattern, order or correspondence for the reader to find what they is waiting to find. Example; if in the first vignette Bat… The bat chap, raises his fist to hit the villain, we expect the next vignette to be such fist connecting against the villain’s jaw as the following vignette is splattered in blood. This is a sequence.
We see an image, we expect for something, make a correspondence and imagine the next.
Is that how order matters?
TO BE CONTINUED
