panel transitions
Today, I thought I had spent too little time trying out the literary features exclusive for graphic novels, so I tried to find the different types of panel transitions that Ms.Brownrigg taught us. I only had to skim through the end of the book to realize that it was literally everywhere. They were used in wide ranges to describe and emphasize unique moments in her life.
The first one I found was "moment-to-moment transition":
Pg. 304
These three consecutive panels (and gutters in between) show the growing number of students who wanted the freedom to draw people without veils or without having to "draw [a] man while looking at the door" (300). The gutters naturally weave the panels together to actually visualize the increasing crowd. Since it shows a subject's passage of time, I believe it is a moment to moment trannsition.
The next one is "action-to-action transition".
Pg. 307~309
The two pages have no narration or speech bubble, which is unique throughout the entire Persepolis. Since it only shows moving figures, it is an action-to-action transition, no doubt.
Following it is the"subject-to-subject transition".
Pg. 320
Again, the three consecutive panels. They each show a person's opinion on the Iraq attacking Kuwait. The passage of time is minute, or the panels might be depicting the same moment.
Finally, the "scene-to-scent transition".
Pg. 154
I immidiately found the blank page that Fion mentioned in one of her posts. If it is assumed as a gigantic gutter, then the last panel on page 153 and the first panel on page 155 can be seen as a scene-to-scene transition, because on the former panel, Marjane is in Iran; then suddenly she is living in Austria. Ms.Brownrigg described this transition as "transporting the reader across "significant distances of time and space." (16th slide of Comics-Vocab ppt.) I think the panels and the blank page fits into that definition nicely.
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