Mcloud and Bernhardt

 Summary:

Mcloud's article was very interesting and different from the others. His main point

on the article was to prove the point that what we see usually is what guild us and 

that we use symbols and pictures to spark our imagination. He uses an example

such as a face and whether we put a great amount of detail or just dot eyes and a line

mouth, we recognize it as a face. Also we make faces out of anything, One example was

 a car and how the headlights are the eyes and the grill was the mouth. We have use our

eyes majority of the time to give meaning to a picture or word. The layout of the article

was a comic book layout which was ironic because of the point he was giving through out

his article.

Berhnardt also talks more on the visual aspect of reading. He has a hard time reading, in his words

the, "low visual identity" looking paragraphs. We all usually are writing the typical essay with five parapraphs

that have perfect structure and look very "formal."  Bernhardt talks about how companies and writers use

techniques to catch the eye of the readers, even if it is changing the colors of the paper and font. We all read

with our eyes so by making  it more appealing we will all want to read the article or story more. He gives many examples of how the passage was changed to catch the attention of the reader so they would receive more views, not just by the academic perspective.

 

Relating to the Article:

I do struggle with reading long, texts that are in paragraph form.

Now in days that is all you see and I want to call myself "lazy."

As much as I would love to read the article or passage I am

sometimes just simply too lazy to. When the text is in a different

way I am always more interested in reading it because it appeals 

to my eyes. I would say reading is like food. You eat with your eyes 

first because if the food does not look good you probably will not

eat it. This goes along with reading for me, if the text looks long and

in tons of paragraphs , I most likely will not read it.

Opinions:

I really liked the article that Mcloud wrote not only because the comic book style

made it way more interesting but because of the point he was giving. He talked about

something that is so true and it really made me think more about how we see things and the

meaning we give to an image just from what we see. I really liked how the articles were not about

how to write or read, but it was about the visual aspect of reading. I really liked reading both articles.

They both had great point being made about the visual concept of reading and writing.