Narratives+and+Genres+BI


 * 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:**

In my "book cover", I used contrast, one, by making a story about best friends into a possible murder story. The second way I used contrast was by having the bright green grass against the pitch black sky. I used repetition by keeping the same font and font size, and by keeping the same elements that were needed to make sense. Such as, the elephant and the dog, because if I had a mouse and a rabbit, it wouldn't make sense and no one would no that I had changed the story because nothing would be related to or similar to the actual story. In my cover I used alignment to keep the words from touching any elements in the picture so that you could read it and not have it look messy. I also used alignment to make the elephant look like it was coming and to have the dog house on the ground and not even a little bit in mid-air which would have been kind of weird unless the do was alien, but that's not the case. I also used proximity by not having things squished together, having every element have its own place, and keeping it flowing, not cramped. The main colors in my cover are black, grays, and whites. The framing I used was having the elephant in the right and top thirds, the dogs and dog house on the bottom and left thirds, and the wording on the top third. This "cover" is talking about the mystery between the dogs and the elephant and if the elephant is going to kill them or do something silly like cut some grass. It is also asking the question if it is safe for the dogs to sleep because at this point we don't know since this is only a cover. The sizes are pretty realistic, a dog isn't bigger than an elephant, an elephant isn't smaller than the dog, the wording isn't too big or too minuscule to read, etc. This is a drawing not a shot, so I can't really explain what type of shot it is, but if I had to I would say it is a close up. The subject matter is the dogs and the elephant with the knife. The setting is at the dogs' house at night. There is about no lighting because it takes place at night, but the purples and greens, and light browns make it somewhat bright. There is not really a pose, other than the elephant is walking into the picture, and the dogs are asleep. The text is asking the question of whether or not it is safe to sleep. All of these things provide clues to the story because if you only had the setting you wouldn't know anything about the story other than where it takes place; and if you had none of these things, this whole illustration would just be a blank page.