Description
The social media platform TikTok has experienced a very dynamic, rapid development and has brought about many interesting medium-related trends, among them the much discussed #BookTok, where users discuss and recommend books. A somewhat similar trend is #ComicTok, where comic book fans discuss stories and trends in and of the comic world in lively short videos making use of the platform’s many different affordances. A specific subgenre of #Comictok is currently evolving in videos that show originally static comic material, i.e. pages and panels from comic books and graphic novels, which users then “dynamize” by adding motion and movement in the form of dynamic filters, animations, stickers as well as voice overs, sound, and music. The results are audio-visually complex artefacts that are in their material very different to the original comics, but often tell the same or a similar story.In this talk we want to discuss and analyze the similarities and differences between the original comic material and the newly evolving 'ComicToks'. For this, we apply both a multimodal-analytical as well as narratological perspective in order to examine how movement is (or is not) represented in these artefacts. A particular focus will lie on the medium-specific materiality and multimodal composition of the individual artefacts, i.e. comic pages on the one hand and short videos on the other. A second focus will be put on the narrative structures that are resulting from this materiality both in the artefacts and in their reception. We will discuss how these two aspects influence each other and give insight into recent trends of transmedia storytelling and media convergence more particularly. By combining perspectives from several subfields of comics studies (among others narratology, film studies, and multimodality research), we also want to elaborate on the field’s interdisciplinary potential and its future development.
| Periode | 5-sep.-2024 |
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| Evenementstitel | Thinking (in) Motion: Comics and Film. |
| Evenementstype | Conference |
| Locatie | Berlin, GermanyToon op kaart |
| Mate van erkenning | International |