What to learn from backgrounds PART 2

This shot is a little weird at first, Clarence is cut out but then stoops down into frame, it forces us to focus on the parents and it also encourages you to look in the empty spot  in the frame, foreshadowing to something bad.

Jeff throws the dish of food onto the carpet, everything is pointing to where it will land, the patterns on the carpet are designed, and the door is designed, everything in the shot is making you look at one spot.

An amazing truck out shot, This works not because its fancy, it works because the entire scene has been building up to this point. The background itself is beautiful and the Truck out worked perfectly. It added a comedic sense of drama

We return to a similar shot as before but the angle is a little different, which is an entirely new drawing, this background also serves to lead the focus to Clarence sitting in the stew. It is Also the end of the scene.

Later on in the episode Clarence burst through the room to look for Jeff, He enters the room in almost the same way as before. This shot is really great, because it's wrong, everything in the room has been reorganized. If you compare it with the Truck out shot from earlier, it is an entirely different room. But you will never notice this when watching the cartoon, I have to think that this was a conscious decision.

1. No one will notice it, and if someone does notice it I don't think they will care.
2. It is composed well and allows for the action to take place.

Meaning that if they left the bed and furniture there, it probably would have been distracting.

Just as a treat, in case you missed this bit, when Clarence runs outside he is given a megaphone by a hairy man hand. (Possibly his dad), But its just the kind of gag that makes this cartoon great.

The backgrounds support all of the action, a well designed background will evoke instant emotions into a viewer and give a sense of what will happen before it happens, by letting the viewer guess what will happen next it allows them to feel more intimate with the show.

Thanks!
-Nick