Commentary

During the third unit of media studies i have been learning about the different types of comic genres. By the end of the summer we had to have completed the following

Commentary

Front page of a comic

Double page comic stretch.

I struggled with the first part of the courswork because i was'nt sure what i had to do. I asked pupils that are in the same class as me if they could explain to me what we had to do. The first step was to complete the front page of the comic which i completed during a three week period. The second part of the coursework was to complete a basic comic and the third part of the whole coursework was to complete the commentary.The whole reason we do a commentariesis are so that we can look back on everything we have learnt on a particular area of media. We have been learning a variety of things from learning about superhero's to learning about characters that work in the comic industry.We have also learnt alot of new things such as the difference between marvel and dc.

During this unit we have learnt alot of new things about comic's and have gone into alot of deatail about marvel comics. We learnt about these so that when it came to doing the coursework we new exactly what was expected. The front page of the comic was made by myself, we had to create a superhero which wasnt hard at all.

Marvel comics was first notcied in 1939 but then was very well known by the year of 1950. It became known as Atlas comics. An artist named Bob Kane created a well known superhero named Batman it was written by Bill Finger.Bat became extreamly popular over the world that a film was made.Batman has no super powers which reflects his human side this is what separtes him from other superhero's.Batman's orgin was crime, he is a very intelligent when it came down to detectivy stuff. Batman lost alot of fans when people lost interst in it as it became a tv show. Batman makers targetted the young ones and ealry adults as their audience.In the 1950's Dr Frederic Wertham wrote a book erging parents not to allow there children to read comic books as he believed children devloped illnesses because they were staying home and not playing in the fresh air.

Manga comics started after the 2nd world war.Manga comics were very much influenced by american comics, manga comes under every age group and subject from fashion to excercise. Osamu Tezuk better known as the godfarther of manga. He wrote the famous comic book Astroboy which is a robot. There are two main styles in manga known as Moe and Sienen.Moe in manga comics have huge eyes and have pointy noses they normally have long spiked up hair and play innocent characters. Moe often targets a younger audience. Seinen are mainly aimed at young boys and men because of the violent behaviour of the characters. The characters in Seinen have spiked up hair smaller eyes compared to Moe.