The Breughel Exercise
This week we'll be doing a version of the storyboarding exercise described in Begleiter on pages 122-23. Here's the image we'll be using; click to view at a larger size:
This is a painting by Pieter Breughel the Younger called "Netherlandish Proverbs." As you can see, it offers challenges not present in Begleiter's example. For starters, the painting is really a series of individual vignettes each one illustrating a proverb. In a way the painting has no (obvious) continuity, only contiguity.
This gives you the opportunity to build continuity on your own by reassembling various pieces of the painting as you see fit. For the exercise on October 11 you'll be given sixteen cutouts from an image of the painting. Working in a team you'll assemble these into a storyboard that comes as close as possible to a coherent visual narrative.
If you'd like to try this yourself at home, connect to Crow and download the file breughel_proverbs.jpg from the seqVizShare directory. Then follow Begleiter's suggestions using Photoshop or whatever tool you prefer.
I've cooked two versions of the assignment myself, accessible via the links below. (The links won't be live until after class on the 11th).
