Framing
The concept of framing in this textbook was much more broad than I expected. It brought up different ideas that I never thought of. The overall idea, I understood about frames, however, was that "Whether emphasized or erased, frames affect how we perceive information". I took the liberty of creating a framed image that I noticed the book didn't seem to discuss:
Comics and graphic novels are a large user of frames considering their formation relies entirely on it. In comics, I see that frames are used to tell a story through images alone (and the use of a bit of dialogue), but the images are what's important. Every frame is a new "line" to the story and each image is meant to show what's important. With comics, there is also a large use of cropping and hierarchy based on certain images that chose to omit certain things and which frames are larger than others. This sketch doesn't display much hierarchy, but you can see the use of cropping. Now our minds can tell that these two men are facing each other, yet they lie cropped into separate frames. "The way an image is cropped can change its meaning completely": Rather than simply seeing a standoff between the two, the frames highlight both characters individually so as to not observe them together.
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