JONATHAN SEARY DEVELOPMENT


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4.11.2011

THE MODERN GENTLEMAN PROFILE

At the moment I am formulating ideas for the second part of the modern gentleman work. I am basically looking at the flip-side of the notion of a gentleman, and how the term gentleman can be used for things like gentleman's clubs (strip clubs) and other such things that are not the typical gentlemanly things to be doing. It is however an interesting point that is being made with the men that partake in the gentleman club culture, because it is another setting in which these men compete. Coming back to things like the true lad website and generally yob behaviour within britain at the moment. However I guess the accolade of being called a gentleman has to be earnt, as I have pointed out in the first part of the work, and this is also relevant to the flip-side, with men competing for each others respect, for being either a gentleman or a lad.

At the moment I am thinking of different ways to bring the newspaper together with a single narrative that runs all the way through the twelve pages. I have been thinking about making an imaginary person or people that exist in a fake world, all based on things I have read that are related to the subject. I would make each a profile and at the end of it a conclusion is made by the reader to who is the most 'gentlemanly' or 'ladish' or whatever term the reader see fit.

I feel that making this imaginary person or people would be work better than actually going out and finding someone who fits the description, due to the fact that you can pull sources of different information and build this character up. Which means the information is concentrated and a more interesting picture is built up of that person.

I am also taking into consideration what Mr Crumb said in the conversation series book about making a comic/magazine/newspaper interesting enough to read and to keep the reader attention.