Digital Graphic Narrative

Development

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Shape Task

EvaluationWhat did you like about your image?I liked how you can use multiple shapes to create something. I liked the fact it was easy to make even with me not knowing how to use Photoshop. I liked the multiple colours that I used within the image. I liked the custom shape tool to make the triangle. What would you improve if you did it again?If I was to do this again I would try to add more detail and add a background image to it like the outside of the house or add some detail to the house, more than I have. If I was to do it again I would implement more skills that i have learnt other the time using Photoshop to improve it.

Rotoscope

EvaluationWhat did you like about your image?I liked that I was able to rotor scope it to make the image easier to do. I like the multiple colours within the hair even though it could be improved. I like the detail of the face and the features on the face. I like the cartoon aspect to the image. I like that you can tell from the image who the person is even with the cartoon feel. What would you improve if you did it again?If I was to do it again I would take more time on the hair trying to get every strand correct because different parts of the hair where different colours. I would also improve the face features like the nose as it looks like the nose has been stuck on. I would also like to improve the light and dark parts and make them stand out more so that if a part of the picture is lighter than another I would like to show that clearly. I would try and do the entire body as well as the face.

Narrative Environment

EvaluationWhat did you like about your image?I like the fact of instead of doing loads of hills I implemented skills or already knew and just made it similar by adding lines which in my opinion still gave the same effect. I like the detail that I added within the cactus, meaning the lines on it. I like the fact it is a basic image but gets of what I am trying to show. I like the fact you can tell it is a desert from the simple colours and feature within the image. What would you improve if you did it again?If I could improve this image I would add more detail and fill up more of the gaps within the image. I would like to even just have more than one cactus to fill the gaps. Try to make it less basic than before. I could add I person to the image and a oasis in the background and show the person heading towards the oasis. I could add an animal like a donkey and somebody riding the donkey in the desert. If i was to do this again i could add some palm trees into the background and make them over hanging the the sign and cactus within the image.

Text Based

EvaluationWhat did you like about your image?I liked how it went from a just my name into turning my name into something weird. I liked getting use the different tools and changing the text in new ways. I liked that you could input images into the text and have a type of camo to go other the words. I liked the fact you could put the words really close or really far away. What I also liked about my text based image was you could make it clear for somebody to read or you could cram it all together and make it not readable. What would you improve if you did it again?I would use other aspects of the new tools that I didn’t get to use when doing the text type. I would try to make the text so that it was so that you couldn't read it and so the letters are so far apart that it takes up a whole page. If I was to do it again I would like to try out a different colour scheme then the one I went with.

Comic Book

EvaluationWhat did you like about your image?The thing I like about my image is that you can make an image into a cartoon version. I like that you can make the image really noticeable or you could make it so you couldn't tell how the person is. I like the feature that we got to use for the image. I like the detail in the image. I like the simplistic of the image. What would you improve if you did it again?The thing I could improve is that there was so many options that I didn't try out when doing this image and I would to go back and try some. Would like to be able to see the eyes I believe this is because I didn't make it light enough but i would like try to see different features.

Photo Story

EvaluationWhat did you like about your image?What I enjoyed about my image is that it was simplistic to do. I think that the images show clearly what is happening in the story and you can tell at each stage what is going on. I also liked the facial expressions on the face of the person in the images it captured exactly what I wanted. I also liked the detail within the image it captures every aspect of what I wanted. I also liked hat the image shows what I wanted it to show. I also liked the image with the black background as it shows he is falling to nowhere which is what I wanted. What would you improve if you did it again?I would improve the pictures that were taking for the photo story. I would try to take the photo from different angles to get a better image, Also take a mixture of short and long photo to mix it up as images at the same distance can get boring. Make sure all the images are at the best quality they can be because one of the images came out really blurry. I would plan what I want the final product to be better. I would add more to the images and make a background for each of the images. I would also try and add some prompts so that I do not have to get images off the internet and add them in.

Illustration

EvaluationWhat did you like about your image?The thing I liked about my image is the colour scheme I used on the characters. I also like that the image even know it isn't great you can tell what is going on and what it is trying to represent. Another thing I liked was how the drawing is so simple but gets it point across.

What would you improve if you did it again?The thing I would like to improve if I had time would be to add more detail and add more onto the picture then the main parts. I would also like to improve the actual picture but because I am not very good at drawing it would be difficult to improve the quality of the image. Also I would like to improve the detail on the characters, for example there face features. I would like to spend more time on all aspects of the image and make sure that it looks better than it is.

Initial Ideas

Lazy jack is taking in the sun relaxing because he has nothing else to do with himself.

Jack get rewarded with cheese and is told by his mother that he should keep is reward on his head.

Jack being lazy with his mother telling him that he got to find a job or will have to buy in own porridge.

This is when jack get his final prize being a donkey and is walking past the house of a rich man and his daughter and his daughter sees jack and starts to burst into laughter.

Jack carrying the donkey home around his shoulders.

This is like the city/town that jack will be looking for his

jobs.

This is the rich father who jack passes his house with the donkey and makes his daughter laugh for the very first time.

The coin in which was jacks first reward for working.

The rich man daughter who ends up getting married to lazy jack.

The neighbor farmer that jack works for. This is the baker

that jack works for.

The butcher which jack works for.

This is going to be one of the backgrounds as one day it will be raining when jack is coming back with his reward.

He gets rewarded with a cat that he tries to carry home.

This shows the city street in which jack will have to travel through to get to his job and then get home.

This picture shows jack getting an reward for working The rich guys house

Jack telling his mother what had happened with the cat he got.

Black and white image of jack with the donkey on his shoulders

His peace of meat for working with the butcher. Dragging it to his house.

Mind Map

Source of the story

Fairy tale

Style The pages could be landscape because most books are landscape. But I might use portrait to be different.

I will be using standard font and will be making the font big and clear to read.

The style of the book will be set in small paragraphs. One per page on the other page there will be an image showing what is going on.

The colors of the book will be bright and the story will be colorful.

Characters

The main characters would be modern day people. There would be a teenager, mother, rich father and his daughter.

The characters will be happy with what they have. Jack will be lazy at the start and then later on in the story become active.

Jack will be lifeless and boring but his journey will change that and he will become full of life and enjoy his life.

They will be cartoonish characters

I could use a wood as a background setting because he could work for a woodchopper in the woods.

The background settings I could also use a desert and show him working towards a town to find his job.

The background setting is going to be in a city or a town. The town or city will be very modern. It will be set in modern time.

I am going to have different types of weather. Like one day it will be raining and the next it is sun shining.

Story

The story is going to be about a teenager called jack. He is very lazy and gets told by his parents that if he doesn’t get a job she will kick him out. So for seven days he goes out and does a job and gets a reward but he never brings it home as it breaks. The final day he gets a donkey and walks past a house where a girl laughs for the first time and her father ends up getting the pair married.

I could have dark colour when bad things happen and bright colors for when good things are happening. I could also change the story and have a darker feel to the story, which would be good for dark colors.

Maybe some bad things occur that don’t happen in the story. Like jack disappearing for example. And maybe jack will be sad even after he gets married to a rich man daughter.

Visual style Photographs

It’s going to look modern with a cartoon feel to it.

Illustrating Rotoscoping

Lazy jack Lazy jack has up to 32 pages The publisher was oxford university press The product dimensions where 20.4 x 15.4 x 0.4 cm It has bright colures with a cartoon feel and all the images were illustrated.The author of the book is Val Biro and he is also the illustrator.The text is well split up and is clear for kids to read It has a traditional style as one page is writing and the next is a picture ofwhat is going on. It has a simple feel to it It is very repetitive and shows that if you keep trying then eventually so good willcome out of it. The pages are portrait.The story is amusing and enjoyable. It is a fiction book.

The gruffalos child The gruffalos child book has 32 pages The publisher is Macmillan children’s book The product dimensions are 0.3 x 21 x 26 cmThe author was Julia Donaldson The illustrator was Axel Scheffler The text is clear and is put into spaces above and below the image on the page. The image is in the middle of the page. The images where hand drawn The images are cartoonThe image simple but shows what is going on?The image is quiet; there is not much going onThe page is portrait. This book is fiction

Dear zooIt has 18 pages The publisher was Macmillan children’s book Product dimensions 17.7 x 1.5 x 17.7 cmThe author of the book is Rod Campbell who was also the illustrator It has bright bold artwork It has thick card pages Chunky cased cover It is interactive The text is big, bold and clear to read. There is little text; the text is under the picture at the bottom of the page. The images are at the top of the page; they are interactive so you can move them. They were hand drawn. It is very simple There is text implemented on the image. There is not much on the page and there is just a simple plain colour background. The book is landscape and is in a rectangle shape.

Gingerbread man It has 24 pages The publisher is Usborne publishingThe product dimensions are 24.4 x 24.4 x 0.5It is a picture book The author of the book Is Lesley Sims and the illustrator is Elena TemporinIt is very colorful The simple and engaging text The images are very cartoonShort amount of text on the page, the text is in spaces on the image. It resides at the top of the page and the bottom. The text is in a big font and is clear to read. The image is bright and tells most of the story for you.The picture covers the entire page. There is plenty of detail of the page. The images are hand drawn There is lots going on within the images Gives a description of the characters at the start of the book which tells you who is going to be in it.

ProposalDimensionsThe number of pages I will use in my book is 8 pages. I will be using a A5 size for my children book.

Export FormatThe export format I am going to use is going to be a JPEG file.

Advantages: the advantages of using a JPEG file is high controlled degree of compression. The user independently selects the ratio quality file sizesmall file size.format is compatible and it is displayed correctly in any browsers, text and graphics programs, on all computers, tablets and mobile devices.suitable for full-color realistic images with a lot of color and contrast transitionspicture quality is high with small degree of compression.

Disadvantages: image may fall apart into individual squares – 8×8 pixel blocks when you squeeze it. This occurs because compression algorithm involves analysis of neighboring pixels, due to this smooth color – transitions may become harsh or just disappear.JPEG is less suitable for working with text or monochrome graphics with clear boundariesformat does not support transparency and In case of drawing templates, logos, buttons it’s necessary;every next step of compressing the image degrades its quality .

Story OverviewA outline of the story would be that lazy jack is a person how is very lazy and doesn’t plan on doing anything except siting in the sun. jack gets told by his mother that he needs to go and find work. So everyday of the next week he goes out and finds a job and gets rewarded everytime he does a new job. The rewards he gets he ends up not getting them home and his mother each time will tell him to try a different method of bringing it home. The last day of the week he gets a donkey and carries over his shoulders. He walks past a rich man house where his daughter sees jack and for the first time in her life she laughs. So the rich man decides that jack and his daughter are to get married and live in a big house with his mother.

Deadline

The deadline is going to be the 6th of November.

Audience

The target audience that will be aiming my children book at is going to be 5 to 8 year olds. The gender would be mostly aimed at males because the book is about a male character but females could also read the book for entertainment reasons and also there is a female character within the book. The location where the book will be released would probably the entire world as there are no problems with what the story tells and nobody should take it offensive. It could be aimed at people who lack motivation to try and motivate them to do something because they don’t know how there future is going to play out just like the main character in the book. The book will be aimed at middle class people. People how enjoy comedy may read this book as it has a comedy feel to it.

Production Methods

To produce the pages I am going to use Photoshop. I will use rotoscoping to create the images, I will do this because I find it easier to do than the other methods. Also using this makes it faster. But I might use photographs because it is simple to do and you can capture exactly what you want. I will use Photoshop because you can use it for every aspect that you need within a book. I would use rotoscoping because it is easy to access. There will be more pictures than text within the book because picture can say more words from just the image. The images are going to be bright colours and the text is going to be big and readable for the reader to read.

What are the strengths of the proposal? What areas of the proposal need further work?

A strength of this proposal is that the story is clear and easy to understand, also there are lots of reasoning behind the production techniques.

If it was to be improved it could a have more detail about he audience.

What are the strengths of the idea generation? What areas of idea generation could have been further developed?

A strength of the idea generation is that the mind map is very clear and shows that the ideas have been thought out and have considered lots of options

Something that could be improved could be the mood board, it could have more options of the illustration styles.

What are the strengths of the proposal? What areas of the proposal need further work?

Detailed points about the advantages and disadvantages of the export format.

In terms of the dimensions it doesn’t say how big the page sizes will be.

What are the strengths of the idea generation? What areas of idea generation could have been further developed?

Explained thoroughly for each point and also used picture annotations for each one. Used multiple points for each heading and again is explained in detail.

Be more clear for which line/arrow it is pointing at. Also possibly use less writing on the mood board.

What are the strengths of the proposal? What areas of the proposal need further work?

You explained the advantages and disadvantages in lots of detail, so the person knows why JPEG may be suitable/unsuitable for task.

You explained clearly why photoshop and photographs would be best for you. This shows your understanding of this story.

In the audience category, you explained the aim of the story which helps to show what the reader should gain from it.

Explain why middle class people.

What are the strengths of the idea generation? What areas of idea generation could have been further developed?

Feedback SummarySum up your feedback.The sum up of my feedback is that it is generally positive from the people that reviewed. My proposal got better feedback than the mood board and mind map. People say that I have put detailed descriptions of the story and the format type. There were some negatives to do with the mood board and the mind map.

Which parts of your feedback do you agree with and why?The parts of the feedback I agree with is that I put a detailed description of the format and that I put plenty of detail for each point. I agree with parts of my mind map not be very clear as there is a lack of arrows pointing to the information. I agree with the explanation I did on the Photoshop and the photographs. I could have more variations of pictures on my mood board.

Which parts of your feedback do you disagree with and why?

The parts on which I disagree on are the detail in which was put in the audience section I feel like I covered all aspects of the audience.

Lazy Jack is a boy who lives at home with his mother. He enjoys sitting in the sun and doing nothing all day long. while he is not having to do any work his mother does all the work for him. Jack and his mother are very poor and struggle to have the money to do any think so his mother decides it is time for Jack to get a job and start earning for the family. Jacks mother tells Jack “you have to find a job tomorrow or I will kick you out”. So Jack decided that he would get a job to help his mother out. The next day Jack goes out to find a job. Jack hired himself to a neighbour farmer. The farmer would offer a coin for his work. But he loses the coin as he drop the coin. When he gets home he tells his mother that he dropped it and so she calls him a silly boy and “that he should carry it in his pocket”. The next day Jack hired himself to a cow keeper. The cattle-keeper offer him a jar of milk for his work. Jack put the jar of milk in his pocket but by the time he got home the jar of milk had spilled in his pocket. When he got home his mother told him “he should of carried it on your head”. The next day Jack hired himself to a farmer. The farmer would offer him some cream cheese for his work. So on the way back he carried the cream cheese on his head. By the time he got home the cheese was spoilt and some got stuck in his hair. His mother told him “that he should of carried it in his hands” The next day Jack hired himself to a baker. The baker would offer jack a large cat for his work. So jack took the cat and carried it in his arms. The cat scratched jack until jack could not hold on any longer. When jack gets home his mother tells him “he should of tied a lead around the cat and dragged it home”. The next day Jack hired himself to a butcher. The butcher would offer him a piece of meat for his work. So jack took the meat and put a lead around the meat and dragged it home. When he got home the meat was completely spoilt. His mother told him “he should of carried it on his shoulders”. The next day Jack hired himself to another farmer. The farmer would offer him a donkey for his work. Jack found it hard to carry the donkey on his shoulders, but he managed to do it. On his journey back to his house he went past the house of a rich man. The rich man and his daughter were looking at jack carrying the donkey. The daughter of the rich man started to laugh for the first time in her life. Her father was so delighted that she laughs for the first time that he married his daughter to lazy Jack. Who because of this became a rich man and would live in a big house with his mother.

Lazy Jack was a boy who lives at home with his mother. Jack enjoyed sitting in the sun and doing nothing allday long. while he was not having to do any work his mother would do all the work for him. Jack and his mother were very poor and struggle to have the money to do any think so his mother decides it is time for Jack to get a job and start earning for the family. The next day Jack went out to find a job. Jack got himself a job with the neighbour farmer. The farmer would give Jack a coin for his work. But Jack loses the coin as he dropped the coin. When he got home he told his mother “I dropped the coin I got given” so she calls him a “silly boy” and that “he should carry it in his pocket”. The next day Jack got himself a job with the cattle-keeper. The cattle-keeper would offer him a jar of milk for his work. Jack put the jar of milk in his pocket but by the time he got home the jar of milk had spilled in his pocket. When he got home his mother told him “he should of carried it on your head”.The next day Jack got himself a job with the farmer. The farmer would offer him some cream cheese for his work. So on the way back he carried the cream cheese on his head. By the time he got home the cheese was spoilt and some got stuck in his hair. His mother told him that “he should carry it in his hands”.The next day Jack got himself a job with the baker. The baker would offer jack a large cat for his work. So jack took the cat and carried it in his arms. The cat scratched jack until jack could not hold on any longer. When jack gets home his mother tells him “he should of tied a lead around the cat and dragged it home”.The next day Jack got himself a job with the butcher. The butcher would offer him a piece of meat for his work. So jack took the meat and put a lead around the meat and dragged it home. When he got home the meat was completely spoilt. His mother told him “he should of carried it on his shoulders”.The next day Jack got himself a job with another farmer. The farmer would offer him a donkey for his work. Jack found it hard to carry the donkey on his shoulders, but he managed to do it. On his journey back to his house he went past the house of a rich man. The rich man and his daughter were looking at jack carrying the donkey. The daughter of the rich man started to laugh for the first time in her life.Her father was so delighted that she laughs for the first time that he married his daughter to lazy Jack. Who because of this became a rich man and would live in a big house with his mother.

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