Narrative+and+Genre+PK


 * Assignment**:
 * Go back to MyON to view the cover of **Feliz dia de Gracias, Gus!. T**hen go back to view the first scene in **Assignment America.**
 * Think about what the cover of a book or CD might be if each was recreated as another genre. **Guiding Questions:** What color background would you use? What text? What style font and what color for the text would you use? Where would the text be placed? What would be the subject matter of any pictures and what style pictures would you need to use? What would be the setting for the picture? What size would the picture be compared to the text? You might want to go to Amazon.com to look at book covers and CD covers for ideas.
 * Genre Examples**:
 * = **Gus** ||= **America** ||
 * = television news story ... ||= children's story book ... ||
 * = situation comedy ... ||= situation comedy ... ||
 * = detective/mystery drama ... ||= detective/mystery drama ... ||
 * = martial arts film ... ||= martial arts film ... ||
 * 1) Use pixlr.com or Open office Draw of Tux Paint to **create a cover** **for one of the stories** retold as a different genre:
 * 2) Use images from Flickr commons or from search.creativecommons.org
 * 3) Use the same title and a picture representing at least one of the characters from the original story.
 * 4) Create a new wiki page called **Genres //yourinitials//**.
 * 5) Save the graphic document as a j**peg and upload it to the new wiki page**.
 * 6) **Write a paragraph** explaining the design for the cover. Describe how you used the graphic elements: contrast, alignment, repetition and proximity to create the cover. Also, explain how you used the following to provide clues to the story.
 * color
 * framing
 * composition
 * size
 * type of shot
 * subject matter, including people
 * setting
 * lighting
 * pose
 * text
 * Cover Paragraph Design Description Here :** For contrast, the thing that stood out the most was the elephant. I used alignment in this assignment by not having everything in random placed. I made sure that the pictures would be organized. for repetition, I used the color black and white throughout the whole picture. The only thing that wasn't black and white was the text, which was yellow. For proximity, I grouped the elephant and the dog and made a title out of that. I used a picture of an elephant that was in black and white. After that I looked for a picture of a dog that was also in black and white to match the elephant. I added the dog on the image of the elephant to make it look like he was there originally. I made the genre of this as a mystery. The color is obviously black and white. The framing is that the dog is in the right third, while the elephant is in top third, part of right third, and left third. The size is more focused on the elephant than the dog. I would have to say that the type of shot is close-up. The subject matter is about an elephant and a dog. The setting is in front of some trees, a road, and under a roof. The pose of the elephant is that you see the right side of him and he is facing the dog. In contrast, you see the left side of the dog and he is facing the dog. Lastly, for text, I combined what was in the picture and made a title. The black and white made me think of something from the past where they made shows/movies in black and white. The genre that came to me was mystery because that is the only genre I thought of when it came to black and white.