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Digital Graphic Narrative

Development

Courtney Whittaker

• Pig image my pig image

Shape Task

EvaluationTo practice my skills in in Print I created different animals in Photoshop using different shapes. My first animal I created was a pig to do this I searched on google images for a JPEG image of a pig, then I copied and pasted it into adobe Photoshop. I then used the circle fro the shape tools and created a circle similar size to pigs head. I then changed the colour of the circle by double clicking the layer and going to colour overlay and using the transfer pen to get a similar colour to the original image. It wont be exact as no pig has a perfectly circular head so then I clicked on the layer I had just created, went to edit and went to transform and warp. This feature allowed me to align the circle with the pigs head exactly. I did this for the rest of the pigs body, then I added inner shading to give the pig a more 3dimentianal realistic look. I found the pigs feet the hardest to produce as they are quite an unusual shape and it took me a few times to warp my created image.I also created a panda to try and improve m skills using shapes in Photoshop I tried to make it look even more detailed.

What did you like about your image?What would you improve if you did it again?

Rotoscope

EvaluationI also created 2 images using Rotoscope in adobe Photoshop. 1 of the images was of Eddie Murphy and the other was of Rowan Atkinson I did these celebrities as I think they are easily recognisable. First I searched for Eddie Murphy on Google images then I copied and pasted the image into Photoshop ten I used the polygon lasso tool to draw around his head once it reached back to the start a dashed line appeared and I would click on my first layer and right clicked on the outlined image then I clicked layer vi copy. A new layer appeared so I changed its name to something appropriate head so that when I had done lots of facial features I can easily edit them as I know which layer is what. I also coloured the layer using the transfer tool to get a similar skin shade to the one in the image. After completing his whole face and hair I shaded bits in using both drop shadow and inner shadow to give my image a realistic 33 dimensional look and I also clicked on select and colour range to help me get the highlight and textures for his hair and moustache. I found his nose rather difficult to create but after lots f practice I managed to get it as close to the original image as I cold. Then I created Rowan Atkinson In the same way I found getting his frown lines t look as close to the image I could get really difficult as the colours didn't look right t first.

What did you like about your image?What would you improve if you did it again?

Narrative Environment

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Text Based

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Photo Story

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Comic Book

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Illustration

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Initial Ideas

Children's Story

Settings

Hansel and Gretel's house A wood

Characters

Goldilocks and the 3 bears: Goldilocks, Mummy bear, Daddy bear, Baby bear

Little red riding hood: Grandma’, little red ridding hood, Woodcutter, Wolf

The 3 little Pigs: Pig 1, Pig2, Pig3, Wolf Gingerbread man: little gingerbread man, fox, old lady Hansel and Gretel: Hansel, Gretel, Witch

Here are the main character from some classic stories. In my children's book I want to mash up a few different story’s so I will need a range of different characters from this list. The characters I have decided to use are goldilocks, the 3 bears, little red riding hood, Hansel and Gretel, and the wolf.

Classic Stories

Goldilocks and the 3 bears

Little red riding hood

3 little pigs Gingerbread man Hansel and Gretel

Because I cant choose a classic story to base my children's book on. I am going to mash up a few story's together and adapt their storyline slightly so that they fit nicely together.

Style/layout

Text

Big bold readable text with 0.5cm spacing between the line

Big first letter of a new scene

Images

I want my images to be colourful, so that the images attract to a young audience, as that is what my book is aimed towards

I might use darker colours to present more scary/sad parts of the story, such as when Hansel and Gretel find out the old lady at the house is a witch, I would use darker colours to represent their fear.

I want to make the images detailed so that the look more realistic and help the child to imagine the story more easier

I will create my images in Photoshop because it has many different features that can develop my pictures to the standard I want them such as using the polygon lasso.

Layout

Image of every page, Image on every

other page Image in the middle

are text around Picture on a double

page Small pictures dotted

about on the pageI decided to use a mixture of layouts so that my book has some variation and certain images want to make will work well with a certain layout style.

I decided to use curly font for my title as goldilocks is one of my main characters and she has curly hair

I might use this as my font because its easier to see then the previous font as its much more bolder and bigger

I looked at different styles of the 3 bears in goldilocks on google images I looked at more realistic looking bears on the left and more simple long bears on the right

I looked at some pictures on google images of goldilocks to give me an idea of how to design my goldilocks character, from these pictures I can see most people interpretation of her is blonde hair with a small bow and a blue dress

Here I have collected different styles of the cottage made of sweets in the story Hansel and Gretel. I have looked at cottages made of sweets from both films and cartoons to give me ideas for what my cottage will include. I want my cottage to have a lollypop trees, with a white iced roof. I also want to include candy canes and gingerbread men.

I looked at all the interpretations of the wolf from little red ridding hood to give me an idea of what my wolf should look like. From these images I can see that that the wolf in all pictures looks mildly scary with big, sharp teeth and large paws.

ProposalDimensions

9 pages and page size

Export FormatI am going to use Jpeg for my export format

Advantages:

• JPEG’s compress after you save them so that the file is smaller. A larger file size takes up a lot of space on a computer and it’s slower to open up.

JPEG has become the most popular universal format, because of its small file size and Internet compatibility.

Small file size so it’s easy to print

Disadvantages:

• The level of JPEG file compression can be increased or decreased. However, image quality is sacrificed for file size.

• While JPEG images can contain colourful, high-resolution image data, it is a lossy format, which means some quality is lost when the image is compressed. If the image is compressed too much, the graphics become noticeably "blocky" and some of the detail is lost

Deadline

6th November

Deadline

6th November

Audience. Consider age, gender, class, location and other characteristics which could define your audience.)My children's book include some grizzly moments so this books is aimed towards children 6-8 years of age so that they aren't effected badly.I think my book might appeal to no specific gender as I feel it would interest both gender as it’s a slight twist on a very popular fairy tales read to both males and females

Production Methods

(Explain the methods you are going to use to produce your pages. Show us the thinking behind your decisions for a more detail response)I will use adobe Photoshop software to help me create my images. I will create the images by using

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

The proposal contains an in-depth description of what your story entails, this is good because we get a brief, yet detailed look at what to expect from your children’s book.

The advantages and disadvantages need completing, also, the production method needs completing.

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

A lot of ideas have been looked at and a lot of different examples have been used.

A lot more information can be added too the idea generation, a more in-depth analysis of different techniques and ideas can be added.


A good outline of the story, the twist throughout the book is captivating and intriguing for readers children and adults to enjoy thoroughly. Clear outline of the audience the book is aimed at.

Look into what production methods would be used to create your book such as rotoscoping, real life photographs, the shape one.


A lot of ideas and creativity has gone into this and that is clearly shown through the narrative that has been created. The depth into text and aesthetics is good too.

Look deeper into the styles you could uses to create your book, and how these could change the way its read.

P.S. that was a proper morbid ending and was not expecting it ahaha.


Good idea, and strong pitch with your plot and outline of what you will do.

(Very nice twist ending)

You should explain your production methods and how/why you will use them. As well when talking about your audience say what you can do to reach your targeted demographic to make it clear how you will reach the audience. You should also explain about why you chose to use JPEG and what’s good and bad about that file format. You could go a lot more in-depth with your information to make things much more clearer in your proposal.


The strengths of the idea generation is that you have annotated it well and made it clear what gave you, your inspiration to create your chosen story. You also have a very detailed mindmap which shows us where you first got your ideas from.

I would perhaps go into more detail with your mood boards, doing things such as colour pallets to show what colours you could use throughout your book and when and why you could use them. As well as perhaps gathering more interpretations of characters to get a better idea of how you would be able to present them within your story. As well I would explain about the choice of font more as “because it is curly like her hair” is a good idea however I believe that you should go into more detail about it and perhaps explain how fonts like that are used in older stories. E.c.t

Feedback SummarySum up your feedback.I had lots of good feedback, from this I have learned that I have written a detailed overview of my children's book which people have found rather creative and enjoy my plot twist ending.

Which parts of your feedback do you agree with and why?I am very pleased with my feedback overall. I have been given constructive feedback to finish some parts of my proposal such as the production methods and why I am going to use a JPEG. I also agree I need to add more detail in my annotations for my mood board

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

Storyboards

Original Script

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