Narrative+and+Genre+RJ13


 * Students will be able to:**
 * 1) search for and use appropriate images to support the genre for each.
 * 2) select fonts and colors to support the meaning of the story depending on the genre.
 * 3) apply the following elements of graphic design: contrast, alignment, repetition and proximity, to create both final graphic documents. (see About Me assignment to review the elements)

Background Information
A **genre** is a type or category. Some of the classic genres of literature are Television and movies have genre also. Some of these are:
 * drama
 * romance
 * satire
 * tragedy
 * comedy
 * television news
 * sitcoms
 * talk shows
 * talent shows
 * documentaries
 * science fiction drama


 * Imagine the following situation:**
 * Boy arranges to meet girl outside the movie the theater at 7:30 PM.
 * Girl arrives early and waits.
 * Boy is walking through the park to the theater when he is abducted by alien life forms.
 * Girls gets tired of waiting and goes home.
 * Think about** how each of these stories would be told, and identify key features and styles if the story were told as
 * 1) a television news story
 * 2) a sitcom
 * 3) a pop video
 * 4) talk-show

**Assignment**:
This book cover goes from a Thanksgiving kid story, to a picnic mystery. I took away the Thanksgiving part of the story and made it into a picnic. Instead of taking a picture a the thing your most thankful for, he tries to find the missing pie that he brought to the picnic. Instead of a cartoon, it's a real porcupine.
 * 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 for ideas.
 * **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 any two covers** (//one for each book//) from the following list. Use images from Flickr commons or from search.creativecommons.org
 * 2) Use the same title and a picture representing at least one of the characters from the original story.
 * 3) Save each graphic document as a **jpeg and attach each to a new wiki page** you create called **Genres //initials//**.
 * 4) **Write a paragraph** explaining the design for the cover or first scene. 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
 * 1st Cover Paragraph Here**

I put the food on the blanket so it doesn't get dirty on the grass. I put a "?" on the pie because the pie is missing. I put the magnifying glass in the porcupine's hands because he is the one trying to find the missing pie. I put the porcupine in the middle because he is that main idea. I put the title on the top because that's where the titles usually go.

I used **Contrast** on the book cover by putting almost everything around the porcupine. I used **Alignment** on the book cover by aligning the Title with the top part of the picnic blanket. I used **Repetition** on the background by having the same background over and over and over. I used **Proximity** by having everything (except the Title) on the blanket to make Gus look more organized.

I used color on the book cover by using the ** Green ** grass, and colors that would be in a picnic. The grass and the blanket looks like a frame on the background. The size corresponds with the important part of the image. Gus is the main character so his picture is the biggest. Gus is on a side pose so he looks like he is holding the magnifying glass. The setting is the background, a picnic. Lighting is good. The only text on the cover is the title. The title is ** orange ** because the pie is pumpkin pie. The title is also big enough to fit on the top of the cover.