Hamlet: The Five Conventions Of Graphic Novels

When making my Bitstrip I had to keep in mind the five conventions of graphic novels. The five conventions are: inference, time, space, lines and colour. In my comic I used three out of the five conventions of graphic novels. The three conventions I used in my bitstrip was time, lines and inference. I addressed time in my bitstrip by making some squares lager then others because more time had gone by till the next square. In my comic, lines were used to show that Hamlet was mad when he had saw Laertes jump into the grave with Ophelia. Hamlet is portrayed as mad in the comic because he loved Orphelia more then Laertes ever would. Inference was used throughout the entire comic stirp. From one square to another the reader has to infer what they think happened till the next square. For example, in one square Hamlet, Horatio and the first gravedigger are talking about a skull that hamlet picked up and the next square Hamlet and Horatio are hiding behind a bush because the funeral started. For those who read the comic, they would infer that while Horatio, Hamlet and the gravedigger are talking, the funeral procession started for Orphelia which left Hamlet and Horatio needing to hide behind a bush; which is seen in the next square. In my comic I used a few camera shots and angles. One camera shot that I used was a medium- up close shot of Hamlet, by doing this it represents …show more content…
I selected these quotations because I believed that they were key parts in the scene. These quotations were powerful and brought out the emotion and the drama of the scene. If I had not included these quotations, the reader would not understand the entire feeling and seriousness of the scene. I reinforced their significance by adding them into a comic while summarizing and using my own words on what everyone else was saying. By doing so, the quotations flowed nicely and made sense in each