Scale: Sophia Price

When looking at an image, the scale of the picture gives away many implications that the reader should have about the photo. How large the images are, how far away they are supposed to be perceived, and the reality of the image are a few of the things scale tells you. For example, when looking at Daniel Clowes’ novel David Boring, the scale tells in an objective way that the two women are different sizes. The relativeness of one girl to the other makes their dimensions  clear to the reader. One is larger, with more body mass. They other is smaller, more thinly perceived.

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David Boring by Daniel Clowes, page 43.

In the second frame, this is more obvious because they are standing next to each other. In the frame below this one, it is subjectively implied that the two women on the other side of the table are further away than the two “closer” to the other side. The subjective gives the 2-demensial image a depth that it does not actually have. The subjective depth makes the objection clear that they are all supposed to be sitting around the table together in the same room. The relativeness that the family is having a conversations added to it because of the way the bubble around the room work. It adds a familiarity, something the readers already know about, to the framing. Then by changing the scale of framing, the reader can see the movement between the bodies as the scene continues frame by frame.

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