Digital Graphic Narrative

Development

Ross Hardman

Shape Task

Evaluation

What did you like about your image?The gradient change on most of the spikes on the alligators back created a good texture and the colour of the alligators body as I felt it was very close to the actual colour of one, these are the only real positives that I take from this bit of work as ill explain below.

What would you improve if you did it again?Id use a simpler image for my work as I found this one very difficult to make recognisable, I would try to make the tail look more aesthetically pleasing to the eye, as well as the mouth and legs, I would've also liked to change the background but with the work on the spikes I did not have time too.

Shape Task

Rotoscope

Evaluation

What did you like about your image?I liked the look of my sharks body and fins as I though the colour scheme and proportions look aesthetically pleasing to the eye, I also like the background that I created for the work as it looks like the ocean is getting darker as the shark goes deeper into the water as well as the additions of the bubbles and seaweed.

What would you improve if you did it again?If I did it again I would aim to improve the mouth and gills of the shark and add texture to the sharks body, I would also add more too the background of the image such as fish or other forms of sea life, I feel like the background is too empty, also I would try to rotoscope the whole image as apposed to just the fins, gills , tail and mouth.

Rotoscope

Text Based

Text Based

Text Based

Text Based

Evaluation

What did you like about your image?I really like the CM Punk clipping mask effect used on the second image and the tracking and leading tool, the CM Punk clipping mask effect worked perfectly and I gained the desired effect that I was looking for, this is down to the tracking and leading tool making it possible to push the letters of my name closer together so I could get the image of CM Punk to look coherent.

What would you improve if you did it again?Id use less effects on my first set of names if I could do it again as the last one doesn’t look aesthetically pleasing on the eye.

Comic Book

Comic Book

Comic Book

Evaluation

What did you like about your image?I like the effect and process that I used to gain such effect because it is simple yet creates a very neat and abstract effect just like a comic book, my first image of Triple H is perfect for this very reason as it captures the image perfectly but the image also has the abstract feel as the water that is being spat out in my image looks almost like flames.

What would you improve if you did it again?If I did it again I would probably use more abstract and surreal imagery to create an even more interesting image effect but otherwise I think the effects work just how they were intended.

Photography

Photography

Photography

Photography

Evaluation

What did you like about your images?I liked the fact that with photography you can get good real life crisp images in almost no time to use in a project, these images took 30 minutes to gather and aim to capture the emotions of loneliness happiness sadness and excitement.

What would you improve if you did it again?Id change the sadness and excitement images in order to get a better look on the bullies face and less blur on the shot of me jumping.

Illustration

Evaluation

What did you like about your image?Not much as I don’t have good illustration skills but I think I did better than I expected, especially with the CM Punk logo on the shirt.

What would you improve if you did it again?Id add more detail to the T-shirt and add shading and textures to the shirt, beard and hair of my image.

Initial Ideas

Mood board of inspiration

Robin HoodTitle: Adventures of Robin HoodTraditional tale of Robin Hood.Characters:Robin HoodLittle JohnFriar TuckKing JohnSheriff of NottinghamGuy of GisbourneRichard

Robin Hood

Maid Marian

Little John

Friar Tuck

Sheriff of Nottingham

Guy of Gisbourne

Prince John

King Richard

ProposalDimensions

In my book il be aiming to make around 24-28 pages with text on the left hand page and my images on the right, I will aim to create a page size of around 1500cm by 900cm

Story OverviewPaul is captured whilst returning from ECW, so Vince takes his power which allows him to oppress the people of ECW , so Punk gathers together a gang to help stop Vinces oppression, he recruits the help of Bill and to help defeat Vinces henchmen Kane and HHH whilst trying to win back ECW.

Export FormatPDF

Advantages: Fast, easy and simple to produce.

Disadvantages: Sizing problems.

Deadline

18th December 2014

Audience

The age for my book will be aimed at 4-7 year olds so there will be focus on images but also a fair amount of text will be written for this book.

The gender audience for this piece would hopefully be either but I feel that this particular tale would attract blokes rather than women due to its action and themes of a man chasing a woman.

Production Methods

To produce my pages I am going too use images as my backgrounds and use rotoscoping as for my foreground details and characters so I can spend time on detail such as textures and facial expressions etc.

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

The proposal is detailed and explains clearly what digital graphic techniques will be used and how they will be used in the book.

Add more detail to the advantages/disadvantages on PDF section, more detail could also be added to the audience section such as where they might live and class etc.

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

It shows a mood board for each character and fonts which could be used for each one, the mind map shows how many words should be used on each page for each age group.

More annotation could be added to explain thought processes on each character and what graphics technique you will use for them, annotate fonts to explain why you will be using them or not using them and how they relate to your story.

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

Your proposal explains how you are going to structure your work quite well. It also explains it also tells the story of ‘Robin Hood quite well’

I think that you could explain things in a bit more detail. Say why you think what you have told us.

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

You have a very strong mood board, which is very well set out and easy to read. I also like the way in which you have made individual slides for each character. I also like how you have included a good range of fonts.

You could put some annotating to go with the images. Could also say why you have chosen them images.

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

You have talked about the methods you are going to use in detail which makes it clear.

You need to add in a deadline date and you could talk about whether parents would want to buy this book for their children and why.

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

There is a mood board for each character and the mind map shows lots of ideas.

You could have annotated the mind maps and talked about each of the characters and how you would illustrate them.

Feedback Summary

Sum up your feedback.

My feedback is all linked with me having more negatives than positives which I can agree with most of them.

Which parts of your feedback do you agree with and why?The fact I should annotate my image mood boards as they are just a collection of images with a title and no real reason behind it.

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

Having to annotate my mind maps…as I don’t think anyone has annotated their mind maps.

Storyboards

Original Script

There are too many tales of Robin Hood for there to be one definite script.

Final Script

Once upon a time in a land not so far from here, the evil Vince McMahon had taken over the WWE universe, along with his henchmen Triple H and Kane.

Vince’s competition Paul Heyman had been locked away in ECW Prison, leaving all the power to him.

Nobody could stand up to Vince as him and his men took all their stuff by force.

Except two men, CM Hood and Little Bill, friends of Paul, and Vince’s enemies!

Hood and Bill looked out over the universe treetops, they heard the noise of a car coming through the forest.

“Look Hood, that’s Kanes car”