2.4 Creating Tone & Mood
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Assignment
Assignment
A graphic novel has both visuals and written text. Both can be manipulated to generate a certain mood and a certain tone.
The visual elements,
such as composition, texture, colour, and text, are all planned purposefully. Each detail has been considered as necessary to support the main idea or the main message of the visual.
- An image could use a low angle to demonstrate one character's power over another.
- An image could use warm colours to demonstrate a feeling of peace and contentment.
Shaun Tan and John
Marsden's graphic novel The Rabbits makes effective use of visual techniques in portraying the desperation of the Others and the determination of the Rabbits.
For 2.4, you will enhance the visual for one page of The Rabbits by writing a creative paragraph which evokes the tone and mood suggested through the visual elements and techniques. This
paragraph will not analyse the tone and mood but will instead be more creative, telling the story behind the image and bringing the tone and mood to the forefront. In other words, become a character in the land the rabbits invade and speak for that character, maintaining the tone and mood. Review the definitions of tone and mood before you write your paragraph. Try, in one word, to label the tone and the mood so that you can maintain them, so that your paragraph fits the story and seems like it was written by Tan or Marsden.
| Step 1 | Choose an image from The Rabbits which evokes a strong tone and mood.
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| Step 2 | Consider the visual elements and how they impact the tone and mood. Jot notes/ideas about how you can convey the visual details which evoke tone and mood into the "voice" of your written response. |
| Step 3 | Compose a paragraph. Assume the voice of any character illustrated on that page and make sure that your character's voice fits the whole text's tone, mood, events, and message. Make it obvious which character you are early in the paragraph. Don't make your reader guess or wait until the end to know which animal on the page is speaking. |
| Step 4 | Online students: Take a screenshot of your panel(s). Print students: Scan your panel(s). |
| Step 5 | Submit your polished paragraph and panel(s) as a PDF or MS Word file. |