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| Subject: | Vignette vs. Diorama - the war wages on |  |
| Date: | Apr 7, 2006 |
| From: | Glenn Gerson | |
Paul, let's continue with the discussion of the difference between a dio and a vignette - I never meant to end the thread. Sometimes these things just get blown WAY out of proportion and people get real defensive of what is and what isn't.
As you can see that Mike Siggins and the AMPS folks have generalized the category to make judging easier and in my view one less hassle to contend with at entry time. No offense with the term "generalize" Mike, actually I applaud you and your group for doing this especially for open judging.
I liked Ian's definition for a vignette. To me it's SMALL, eloquent and simple. Back to that idea of a snapshot in time. Perhaps it's the old Shep Paine thing ingrained in my building repetoire too. Even too, the action is stated and doesn't require a title or text of any kind although most of us feel that whatever we build needs a title - "M48 on a base" for example.
My most prized vignette is titled "Faithful to the end". It depicts a dead German soldier, on the ground, covered with a tarp. His faithful German Sherpard is laying right next to him. Simple, eloquent and powerful. Is this a dio? There is no action, no movement, no nothing. To the historically intuitive it's emotionally moving. To the naive it's "is the guy sleeping under a blanket? What's the dog doing? What's that thing that looks like a little pyramid behind them" Ah cr*p here we go again with a lengthy explanation - I should made this a dio with 12 pages of historical accompanying text. Actually it was based on an AP photo with the title "Faithful to the end" of a dead south African farmer with his small Jack Russel terrier curled up next to him. The picture moved me to replicate it. It worked.
Dio/vignette, whatever you want to call it the basics are the same but moreso with a vignette because I feel that you need to work with LESS to achieve more.
First you need to drawer in your viewer with a visceral shot and then let the story unfold as their eyes scan the scene. None of this "Coffee break, Soldier reading map, man fixing track, people scanning the sky for imaginary enemy, tank on a rock" stuff.
It's a difficult thing to accomplish. Not everyone can pull it off but it's worth a try. I'd like to go to a show where the dio entries DIDN'T have titles on the bases just to see it I could see the same story as the builder. Wow, what a concept! |
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 | Difference between a Vignette and a Diorama - Paul A. Owen - Apr 7, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Difference between a Vignette and a Diorama - Jason Burch - Apr 7, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Difference between a Vignette and a Diorama - ian sadler - Apr 7, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Vignette vs. Diorama - the war is on - Glenn Gerson - Apr 7, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Vignette vs. Diorama - the war is on - Paul A. Owen - Apr 7, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Vignette vs. Diorama - the war wages on - Glenn Gerson - Apr 7, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Vignette vs. Diorama - the war wages on - adam lehmann - Apr 9, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Vignette vs. Diorama - the war wages on - Paul A. Owen - Apr 9, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Difference between a Vignette and a Diorama - Mike Siggins - Apr 7, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Difference between a Vignette and a Diorama - Mike Bedard - Apr 8, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Difference between a Vignette and a Diorama - Rick Bennett - Apr 8, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: Difference between a Vignette and a Diorama - Dwayne - Apr 8, 2006 |
| . . . . . . better art school - Mike Bedard - Apr 8, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Difference between a Vignette and a Diorama - Tim Streeter - Apr 8, 2006 |
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