Comments on: Rethinking Transitions Part One

By: DerikB

DerikB — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 17:57:52 +0000

That’s part of a different post I’ve in draft, Grant, but I believe that’s what film studies calls parallel editing.

By: grant

grant — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 17:21:18 +0000

What I have been trying to do in the past month on my own comic is to go back and forth between two-three stories by showing them as fluid flashbacks that go in and out of each other. I’m sure if I’m pulling this off. A few have said its hard to follow. Hopefully the final panels of the story will make thing clearer. (Though I think things might be really small this Friday and too hard to read. I’m working on that too.)

I’ve found that this type of storytelling doesn’t fit into the six categories either yet it is a technique used in film quite a bit.

By: DerikB

DerikB — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 12:27:37 +0000

I’ve read Neil’s writing on the matter (probably will reread this week), but I think he’s coming from a different point of view than I am. There is more to understanding comics than this, but this is an important part of how narratives are created in comics, which is more what I am interested in.

Or maybe it’s not different and this will be a pointless issue. We’ll see.

By: Tim Godek

Tim Godek — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 03:35:10 +0000

I like how you began this post - basically a complaint on the bias toward linearity in panel transition discussions - with a disclaimer on the linearity of the post itself.

Neil Cohn expanded on McCloud’s list of panel transitions early on in his studies, much as you suggest here, but abandoned the line of thought as too limiting (i.e. there’s much more to understanding comics than strings of single panel-to-panel transitions [paraphrase mine])