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Activity
In your groups choose one of the four stasis and make a storyline / storyboard based on it.
You should construct a short and simple story (not more than one page) and with the terminology of McCloud talk about which moments you want to picture.
While doing this you should reflect on the question:
How can stasis help us in making a better comic?
Stasis
How can we use Stasis?
Chappaquiddick incident
Conjecture - can we agree on the facts?
"Little over one mile away, the car that I was driving on an unlit road went off a narrow bridge which had no guard rails and was built on a left angle to the road. The car overturned in a deep pond and immediately filled with water"
Definition - was it a crime or an accident?
"Today, as I mentioned, I felt morally obligated to plead guilty to the charge of leaving the scene of an accident. No words on my part can possibly express the terrible pain and suffering I feel over this tragic incident"
Conjecture
Quality -
How is Kennedy's ethos affected?
And did something inpropper happen in that car?
Policy - can Kennedy stay as governor?
Did it happen? Does it exist?
What is the cause?
Can we do something about it?
"If at any time the citizens of Massachusetts should lack confidence in their Senator's character, or his ability -- with or without justification -- he could not in my opinion adequately perform his duties and should not continue in office"
"There is no truth, no truth whatever, to the widely circulated suspicions of immoral conduct that have been leveled at my behavior and hers regarding that evening. There has never been a private relationship between us of any kind. I know of nothing in Mary Jo's conduct on that or any other occasion -- and the same is true of the other girls at that party -- that would lend any substance to such ugly speculation about their character"
Stasis
George Lakoff: "Don't think of an elephant"
Framing is the notion tha words convey ideals and values
Definition
A "giveaway" or
a "gift of life"
How can we describe what happened?
Which words can we use?
To what larger class of things does it belong?
questions of invention
1. Conjecture
2. Definition
3. Quality
4. Policy
Quality
Which values does the issue show?
Was it god or bad // right or wrong?
Comparative questions:
Is it more desirable than something else?
Actually the old rhetoricians called the fourth stases Translatio - and here the question was: Is this the right court for this issue?
Hermogones - "On issues"