Body Biography Analysis Explanation
Once you have fully planned your Body Biography, you need to
write an individual analysis, explaining your choices for the visual character
analysis you have created. This should
be approximately one page typed and double-spaced. Please complete this in proper MLA
format. Your analysis should include
explanations of the following:
- Placement: Why did you place your text and artwork
where you chose to? This includes
objects, words, phrases, and pictures.
For example, the area where your character’s heart would be might
appropriate for illustrating the important relationships with his life.
- Spine: What is the most important goal for your
character? What drives his thoughts
and actions? This is your
character’s “spine.” How did you
illustrate it?
- Virtues
and Vices: What are your
character’s best qualities? What
are his/her worst qualities? How
did you make us visualize them?
- Colors: Colors are often symbolic. What color(s) do you most associate with
your characters? Why? How did you work these colors in your
project?
- Mirror,
Mirror: Consider both how your
character appears to others on the surface and what you know about the
character’s inner-self (what the character really thinks about
himself). Do these images clash or
are they the same? What does this
tell you about the character?
- Changes: How has your character changed within
the story? Explain how you were
able to show this in your artwork.
- Lines/Quotations: Be sure to include three or more
important lines of/about the character in regards to a discovery or
description of self. Explain why
you placed these where you did, as well as what each quote says about the
character. Please include the
quotation and a citation.
- Symbols: What objects can you associate/relate
with your character that illustrate his own importance with the story.
