The documentary was about the history of comics and what its been through since it first started. The program was called Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked.
I thought the documentary was actually really interesting and thats coming from someone who doesn't have an interest in comics.
I think the reason for this, is that I didn't realise how old comics actually are, and the history behind them over the last few years. Also I didn't realise how old superman is, and other super heroes like batman. In-fact superman was the very first superhero in a comic which I thought was pretty interesting, since these days, you don't really here much of him (in my opinion). He starred in a film not so long ago, but from what I heard it wasn't very good. I think batman is a lot better.
I thought that the documentary explained the history of comics really well and it was easy to understand. I was really quite surprised that comics were first formed by fairly poor people with no jobs, and now most of the people at the beginning of the comic history became millionaires. I think they were surprised how well comic books would actually do. That is why they have lasted so many years. Also I think the stories they wrote in there comics about world war two made a big influence on the public and the people in the army at the time, because it showed american people fighting hitler and winning the war, but also showed in a funny way. This could of made the people feel a lot better about the war.
I think when the rules came in for what comics were allowed in the stories was really wrong. I think the comics should be allowed whatever they want in them, but they should make there comic style based upon there readers and what age. Then this would determine the things they could write and put in it. Or maybe put on the front and age, or parental guidance like a DVD does.
I do think though, that comics on paper will eventually die out now that everything in becoming digital, of course you will get the odd collectors who will want the paper version. But it will become easier for people to read them on there computer. But the thing that wont die out is the characters that have been in the comics such as, Batman, Spiderman, Hulk, Superman. These characters will live on for years and they will continue to make films with these people. Maybe with the decreasing numbers in comic readers, people may eventually not know who these characters are, but they will still live on.
Wednesday, 14 December 2011
Wednesday, 2 November 2011
Representing other cultures in comic and video games
Idea's
I'm thinking of making a new assassin's creed character, but with a different setting, not in Rome, Venice or Acre like the last games. I'm thinking of making it set in the viking period of Norway and Denmark; or maybe around the tudor period set in england around london. It will follow the same story as other assassin's creed games, conflict between assassin's and templars and finding the pieces of eden, or, finding a new important artefact.
If i set it in the viking period, I could make one of the old viking kings a templar which you have to assassinate, or maybe a viking god in human form? (Odin). The tudor setting would be similar, I could make Henry the 8th a templar, bloody mary, or, I could make a point in the storyline where you meet guyfawks and assist him in trying to blow up the houses of parliament ( because they are templars, maybe?). But instead of making him get captured, change it around so that it actually does blow up. I could have the character meet famous people in history, jack the ripper? I could have the black plague involved maybe.
If i want to do the tudors and the time of Guy Fawkes I would have to have it set between 1570 and 1606 since this is when Guy Fawkes was born and died. So I could make King James 1st involved in the story because he was born in 1566 and died 1625. His reign was 1567 - 1625. Also some point in Guy Fawkes's life, he met someone who tried to kill King James 1st. So maybe I could make this all involved in the story and have my character try and assassinate King James, because he is a templar maybe.
I think as a background for my character he should of been quite good friends with Guy Fawkes and took part in the 'Eighty Years War' against Philip 2 of spain. Then he comes back to england with Guy Fawkes to assist with him trying to blow up the houses of parliament. But I'm not sure whether to have guy fawkes die during this, or to live and change history. Whether he lives or dies, my character wont die during this. I think if guy fawkes dies, that would mean that the houses of parliament wouldn't get blown up. so, maybe my character could continue to try and eliminate parliament.
Timeline - information from wikipedia
The pope in 1570 declared Elizabeth a heretic who was not the legitimate Queen and her subjects no longer owed her obedience. The pope sent Jesuits and seminarians to secretly evangelize and support Catholics. After several plots to overthrow her, Catholic clergy were mostly considered to be traitors, and were pursued aggressively in England. Often priests were tortured or executed after capture unless they cooperated with the English authorities. Persons who publicly supported Catholicism were excluded from the professions, sometimes fined or imprisoned.
The Gunpowder Plot, the third Catholic conspiracy against his person in three years, forced James to reconsider his tolerant policy towards English Catholics; and for a while he sanctioned stricter measures to control them. In May 1606, Parliament passed an act which could require any citizen to c ntake an Oath of Allegiance, entailing a denial of the pope's authority over the king.
From what I've read, guns changed the way of warfare in the 16th century. The early guns were lit by a slow match, which would then touch the gunpowder to ignite it. But in the 16th century a wheelock was invented. It was a metal wheel spun against a piece of iron pyrites generating sparks that ignited the gunpowder. Most cavalry stopped using lances, instead they carried two or three pistols each, ready to fire, and sabres.
apparently in england at the time, they were still using longbows more than guns, but handguns were increasingly used. Muskets took a long time to reload and during that time the infantry needed protection from cavalry, they were protected by men with pikes.
Forts and towns at the time had something called bastions. It was triangular sections of wall that jutted out from the rest of the wall. This provided flanking fire at soldiers approaching the sides.
Solid cannon balls, called shots, were useful for firing at walls during sieges and for firing at enemy ships. But to kill soldiers or sailers canister or case shot was used. That was a container filled with sharp stones or pieces of metal. When this fired the container burst and sprayed over the enemy.
I'm thinking of making a new assassin's creed character, but with a different setting, not in Rome, Venice or Acre like the last games. I'm thinking of making it set in the viking period of Norway and Denmark; or maybe around the tudor period set in england around london. It will follow the same story as other assassin's creed games, conflict between assassin's and templars and finding the pieces of eden, or, finding a new important artefact.
If i set it in the viking period, I could make one of the old viking kings a templar which you have to assassinate, or maybe a viking god in human form? (Odin). The tudor setting would be similar, I could make Henry the 8th a templar, bloody mary, or, I could make a point in the storyline where you meet guyfawks and assist him in trying to blow up the houses of parliament ( because they are templars, maybe?). But instead of making him get captured, change it around so that it actually does blow up. I could have the character meet famous people in history, jack the ripper? I could have the black plague involved maybe.
If i want to do the tudors and the time of Guy Fawkes I would have to have it set between 1570 and 1606 since this is when Guy Fawkes was born and died. So I could make King James 1st involved in the story because he was born in 1566 and died 1625. His reign was 1567 - 1625. Also some point in Guy Fawkes's life, he met someone who tried to kill King James 1st. So maybe I could make this all involved in the story and have my character try and assassinate King James, because he is a templar maybe.
I think as a background for my character he should of been quite good friends with Guy Fawkes and took part in the 'Eighty Years War' against Philip 2 of spain. Then he comes back to england with Guy Fawkes to assist with him trying to blow up the houses of parliament. But I'm not sure whether to have guy fawkes die during this, or to live and change history. Whether he lives or dies, my character wont die during this. I think if guy fawkes dies, that would mean that the houses of parliament wouldn't get blown up. so, maybe my character could continue to try and eliminate parliament.
Timeline - information from wikipedia
- 1600
- January - In Ireland, Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone renews the Nine Years' War against England with an invasion of Munster.[1]
- 31 December - East India Company granted a Royal Charter.[2]
- Publication of Ben Jonson's play Every Man Out of His Humour.[1]
- First publication of William Shakespeare's plays The Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night's Dream.[1]
- William Gilbert publishes De Magnete, discussing Earth's magnetic field, one of the first important scientific works to be published in England.
- 1601
- 7 January–8 January - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex stages a short-lived rebellion against Elizabeth I.[1]
- 25 February - Essex executed for treason.[1]
- Spring - Possible first performance of Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet.[2][3]
- 2 October–3 January 1602 - The Siege of Kinsale ends the rebellion in Ireland.[1]
- November - Elizabeth I addresses her final parliament with the Golden Speech.[1]
- An Act for the Relief of the Poor codifies the English Poor Laws.
- 1602
- 2 February (Candlemas night) - First recorded performance of Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night, in Middle Temple Hall, London.[4]
- 8 November - The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford is opened.[2]
- Publication of Shakespeare's comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor.
- Richard Carew publishes The Survey of Cornwall.[2]
- 1603
- 24 March - Queen Elizabeth I dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland, thus uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.[5]
- 30 March - In Ireland, the Earl of Tyrone surrenders to the English.[1]
- April - Thomas Cartwright delivers his Millenary Petition, demanding an end to ritualistic practices, and signed by 1,000 Puritan ministers, to the King.[2]
- 28 April - Funeral of Elizabeth I in Westminster Abbey.
- 17 July - Sir Walter Ralegh arrested for treason.[5]
- 21 July - Thomas Howard created the 1st Earl of Suffolk.[6]
- 25 July - Coronation of James I.[5]
- 17 November - Ralegh goes on trial for treason in the converted Great Hall of Winchester Castle.[5]
- 1604
- 14 January to 16 January - Hampton Court Conference with James I, the Anglican bishops and representatives of Puritans. Work begins on theAuthorized King James Version of the Bible.[2]
- 19 March - Parliament assembles and debates Robert Cecil's proposal for union with Scotland.[6]
- 20 June - The Form of Apology and Satisfaction is read out in the House of Commons to justify the conduct of Parliament following a dispute between King and Parliament over a contested election in Buckinghamshire.[6]
- 18 August - The Treaty of London brings an end to the Anglo–Spanish War, an intermittent conflict which has been going on since 1585.[7]
- 7 July - Parliament prorogued.[6]
- 20 October - King James assumes the style king of Great Britain.[8]
- November - Richard Bancroft enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
- 1 November (Hallowmas day) - First recorded performance of Shakespeare's tragedy Othello, at Whitehall Palace in London.
- Christopher Marlowe's play The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus published.
- Table Alphabeticall, the first known English dictionary to be organised by alphabetical ordering, is published.
- Peter Blundell founds Blundell's School in Tiverton, Devon.
- 1605
- 5 November - Gunpowder Plot: A plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament is foiled when Sir Thomas Knyvet, a justice of the peace, finds Guy Fawkes in a cellar below the Parliament building and orders a search of the area, finding 36 barrels of gunpowder. Fawkes is arrested for trying to kill King James I and the members who were scheduled to sit together in Parliament the next day. Guy Fawkes spoke the legendary words: "Remember, remember, the Fifth of November".[1][9]
- 8 November - Gunpowder Plot conspirator Robert Catesby shot while plotters are being arrested at Holbeche House in the west midlands.[2]
- Publication of Francis Bacon's treatise The Advancement of Learning.
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- 31 January - Fawkes and his co-plotters are executed by hanging, drawing and quartering.[1]
- 10 April - The London Company is granted a Royal Charter to encourage colonisation in Virginia.[2]
- 12 April - First version of the Union Flag created.[5]
- May - Severe penalties are imposed for Catholic recusancy, and for refusal to take an Oath of Allegiance to James to serve in public office, by An Act for the better discovering and repressing of popish recusants (proclaimed law 22 June).[2]
- 27 May - Second session of Parliament under King James prorogued.[6]
- August (approx.) - Possible first performance of Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth.[2][10]
- 18 November - Third session of Parliament begins.[6]
- 26 December (St. Stephen's night) - First recorded performance of Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear, before the King at Whitehall.[10
There is a few things I could take out of this timeline and involve it in my story like, I could have my character attend one of Shakespeare's plays to assassinate someone. Or when elizabeth addresses her final parliament with the golden speech, my character could attend this to get information or another assassination. Or when elizabeth dies, that could be caused by my character.
Clothing at the time
As you can se from these images everyone wears kind of big hats, the look like cowboy hats. They also wear capes and things around there necks. The guards carry swords and there is gunpowder involved so it gives me a rough idea of what weapons i can give my character. The men tend to all have facial hair so this is also given me an idea of what my character can look like. In the top image the men are all wearing some form of boots. Some of the people are wearing tights, and others are wearing baggy sort of trousers.
Religion-information from wikipedia
Battles between Protestant and catholic.
picture of london in the 16th century.
From what I've read, guns changed the way of warfare in the 16th century. The early guns were lit by a slow match, which would then touch the gunpowder to ignite it. But in the 16th century a wheelock was invented. It was a metal wheel spun against a piece of iron pyrites generating sparks that ignited the gunpowder. Most cavalry stopped using lances, instead they carried two or three pistols each, ready to fire, and sabres.
apparently in england at the time, they were still using longbows more than guns, but handguns were increasingly used. Muskets took a long time to reload and during that time the infantry needed protection from cavalry, they were protected by men with pikes.
Forts and towns at the time had something called bastions. It was triangular sections of wall that jutted out from the rest of the wall. This provided flanking fire at soldiers approaching the sides.
Solid cannon balls, called shots, were useful for firing at walls during sieges and for firing at enemy ships. But to kill soldiers or sailers canister or case shot was used. That was a container filled with sharp stones or pieces of metal. When this fired the container burst and sprayed over the enemy.
Wednesday, 12 October 2011
Comic
The comic book i have chosen is 'Assassins Creed The Fall' the reason I have chosen this is because I was a really big fan of the Assassins creed games and was interested that they have released a comic. Although the comic is not set at the same time. The comic follows the journey of the russian Assassin Nikolai Orelov during the 1810 and later the early 20th century Russia. Nikolai's genetic memories are being experienced by his descendant, Daniel Cross in 1998.
The series is written by and created by Cameron Stewart and Karl Kerschl, the new comic book series was initially going to be an expansion of the travels of Ezio Auditore da Firenze, from assassins creed 2 game, But was moved to an entirely new setting to provide greater freedom to the writers. However the stroy still follows the battle between Templars and Assassins.
The comic was released on November 10th 2010 a few days before the release of Assassins Creed Brotherhood.
Writer: Cameron Stewart, Karl Kerschl
Artists: Cameron Stewart, Karl Kerschl
Colorist: Nadine Thomas
Editors: Studio Lounak's, serge Lapointe
Information about the artists
Cameron Stewart:
Stewart is a Canadian Writer and artist in comics, best known for his work on Catwoman and also Batman and robin, seaguy and seven soldiers: The manhattan guardian, and the other side.
Interview: http://mindlessones.com/2009/04/09/13-questions-with-cameron-stewart/
Karl Kerschl:
karl was born in Toronto and attended the Ontario College of Art for a year before deciding to practice by himself, discovering and improving his techniques on story telling and drawing styles.
ON June 20, 2007 Kerschl began the webcomic The Abominable Charles Christopher as part of the transmission X comics collective.
Link to interview: http://www.comicfoundry.com/index.php/wfsection/article.php?articleid=166
Inspiration
Inspiration for the comic came from the book The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon. The main character is brainwashed by the Communist party to act as their sleeper agent, acting on their orders whnever he sees the queen of diamonds playing card. In The fall, Abstergo programmed Daniel Cross to kill the mentor when in the opportune moment. The next installment, Assassins Creed: The Chain will continue the stories of Daniel Cross and Nikolai Orelev.
Pictures of the comic:
I think the work is very interesting and I really like how they have kept the style of the way the Assassin looks. It allows the reader to instantly know who the assassin is ( if they are familiar with Assassins Creed). I also like the fact that they have continued the story with assassins creed because, I really like the games and was a little sad that there slowly coming to an end. Maybe now that they have released another story line they may continue to make the games. Although I don't really like the fact its set in Russia, but you could tell it was an Assassins Creed comic just by looking at it.
I like the colours used in comic, like the original colours for the assassin, the image on the right almost makes it look a little japanese by the colours and the way they've drawn the image. I like on the front cover how they've kept the original colours from the games like red, black and white. I think these colours symbolise Assassins Creed. Again I like in the front cover that the assassin is shown on a rooftop, on what seems like a holy spot. It makes it look like the assassins creed games where you would ofton have to clim to 'view points' to get a clear surrounding of the area.
The series is written by and created by Cameron Stewart and Karl Kerschl, the new comic book series was initially going to be an expansion of the travels of Ezio Auditore da Firenze, from assassins creed 2 game, But was moved to an entirely new setting to provide greater freedom to the writers. However the stroy still follows the battle between Templars and Assassins.
The comic was released on November 10th 2010 a few days before the release of Assassins Creed Brotherhood.
Writer: Cameron Stewart, Karl Kerschl
Artists: Cameron Stewart, Karl Kerschl
Colorist: Nadine Thomas
Editors: Studio Lounak's, serge Lapointe
Information about the artists
Cameron Stewart:
Stewart is a Canadian Writer and artist in comics, best known for his work on Catwoman and also Batman and robin, seaguy and seven soldiers: The manhattan guardian, and the other side.
Interview: http://mindlessones.com/2009/04/09/13-questions-with-cameron-stewart/
Karl Kerschl:
karl was born in Toronto and attended the Ontario College of Art for a year before deciding to practice by himself, discovering and improving his techniques on story telling and drawing styles.
ON June 20, 2007 Kerschl began the webcomic The Abominable Charles Christopher as part of the transmission X comics collective.
Link to interview: http://www.comicfoundry.com/index.php/wfsection/article.php?articleid=166
Inspiration
Inspiration for the comic came from the book The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon. The main character is brainwashed by the Communist party to act as their sleeper agent, acting on their orders whnever he sees the queen of diamonds playing card. In The fall, Abstergo programmed Daniel Cross to kill the mentor when in the opportune moment. The next installment, Assassins Creed: The Chain will continue the stories of Daniel Cross and Nikolai Orelev.
Pictures of the comic:
I think the work is very interesting and I really like how they have kept the style of the way the Assassin looks. It allows the reader to instantly know who the assassin is ( if they are familiar with Assassins Creed). I also like the fact that they have continued the story with assassins creed because, I really like the games and was a little sad that there slowly coming to an end. Maybe now that they have released another story line they may continue to make the games. Although I don't really like the fact its set in Russia, but you could tell it was an Assassins Creed comic just by looking at it.
I like the colours used in comic, like the original colours for the assassin, the image on the right almost makes it look a little japanese by the colours and the way they've drawn the image. I like on the front cover how they've kept the original colours from the games like red, black and white. I think these colours symbolise Assassins Creed. Again I like in the front cover that the assassin is shown on a rooftop, on what seems like a holy spot. It makes it look like the assassins creed games where you would ofton have to clim to 'view points' to get a clear surrounding of the area.
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