Page 8. panels 1/2/3
‘The darkness drops again’. More smaller panels again here, as the
despondency of the Bedouin is now visualised through introverted
segments (it should also be noted that I have made the decision to have
the Bedouin / Falconer now firmly ensconced as the first person narrator
of the poem but the perspective shifts from his point of view panel 1 - to
him in shot panels 2 and 3.)
Page 8. panel 4
The falcon has now been replaced by the large and imposing eagle of
Nazism. The ideology has begun to take over. The stone eagle here
making reference to the ‘twenty centuries of stony sleep’, as though
these horrors had been lying dormant waiting to rise.
Final page. final panel
This panel is another ghostlike vision as though this image also has been
formed from the sand storm. This is a final attempt at visual symmetry,
to compare with the last panel on the first page. This is the sinister
conclusion of the piece, the rough beast is Nazism, slouching towards
Bethlehem (an allegorical place of peace).
Conclusion
Even taking into account that this is a first attempt at a project of this
nature, I do not feel that I have done justice to some of the imagery
that I had in mind for this reworking. Although when younger I had a
propensity for art, I could never in any way describe it as any level of
technical ability. On reflection, though, I have put things exactly where
I intended them to go (perhaps with the exception of the skull and SS
hat – that short sequence is a little too loose and feels ‘thrown together’)
therefore the storyboard and summary should prove a faithful enough
rendering to the ideas and imagery that I had in mind. On looking back I
have some doubts about its graphic fluidity and am left a little unsure if it
actually works as a whole. The idea of jumping from some smaller panel
pages to larger doesn’t really come off and the pages aren’t expressive
enough with the lines of the poem coupled next to my imagery; it is as
though they require further explanation. Although the module has taught
us enough to present the ideas and read closely into them, if the finalised
work actually requires an analysis in order to make sense then it may
have missed the point.
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