TASK 2- EXPERIMENTS

Graphic Novel- Ideas

English Folktale- Jack and the beanstalk I have chose this tale as not only does it

have a lot of characters it is a very popular English folktale and I believe I can make a good graphic novel based on certain scenes from the story.

Tasks

Digital Photograph- I will take a variety of photographs to explain the folktale of jack and the beanstalk. The Photographs will include The Beanstalk, The Giant and Jack.

Illustration of Jack and the beanstalk- This will be a drawing of a scene from the story and done on paper and uploaded to the presentation.

Comic book version of the folktale. I will make a comic book version of a scene in the story and make it look professional. This will be done by manipulating an image of a picture taken off the internet of a farmer and making a comic book version for experimental purposes only.

Image manipulated by Rotoscope to relate to narrative.

Then the final task I will take part in will be the evaluation explaining what went well or bad for each method and ultimately deciding on the final technique to be used in the graphic novel.

This image is to be altered using the Comic Book method.

The manipulation into an comic book style image. This technique is used here to experiment if I will use this in

the graphic novel for the characters.

This is the manipulation process of Photoshop to experiment the basic steps on what the characters in the graphic novel

may look like should I choose this method.

Photographs in relation to Folktale chosen.

Illustration in relation to Folktale chosen.

Evaluation (on each technique)

Digital Photography: This method I found to be the most effective in quality compared to other techniques, this is because you can recreate the scene and have a sense of the story being real. Thus meaning the reader can enjoy it better and the audience who will be aged 8-15 can look at the quality of the Picture and not need text to explain what exactly is going on in the scene. The speed of the technique was relatively quick as the equipment is very advanced and should this be used for the final graphic novel then it would be a very fast approach. Similar products for this particular novel have used illustration and as far as I am aware this would be a unique way in telling the Folktale. The resources required for this technique to be used are that of the characters acting the parts, the camera to take the shots and the crops such as the beanstalk.

Photoshop comic book affects: This technique I found added a lot to the quality of the product and made the image look like it was meant for the novel chosen, this was used in a way to make the story look more cartoony and reach out to the target audience. This also added a professional edge to the image and stood out to the rest of the techniques. The speed of the process was quick however should it be chosen as the final design the adjustments to the tone and making the images look to a certain standard may take time. This is a commonly used effect in relation to the story and target audience as many novels include the style as a way in developing images and looking appropriate to the story. Using a more professional method would mean the target audience maybe adjusted to an slightly older age from 10-15 (both genders)Resources needed for this method would be the software in the computers and the images to alter. Should this method be used the images would be my own photographs and combine two methods together to make the final design.

Rotoscoping: This method was I found lacking in the quality the other methods had, this was because you did not get the sense of any characters relating to the target audience. And that the images lacked the attention to detail which the other techniques included. The speed of this process did take time and should it be used again, the quality of the work will be needed to be higher and will take a substantial amount of time for the images to look professional. Similar products do not use this method as much as they tend to focus on more illustration rather than adapting images. The Audience for this type of method in the novel would be similar to the other methods and children from aged 8-15 both genders as the Folktale is seen as an entertaining. The resources needed for Rotoscoping would be the software similar to the comic book method, the Image as well to Develop, and again should this method be used the image used will be from my own images taken and forming two methods together.

Illustration: This method I found lacked the quality needed for the graphic novel, this method did not grasp the attention to detail needed in such picture orientated book. The image needed to set the scene as well as show what was going on in each part of the story. Unlike methods like the Digital photography where you could refrain from using text as the image had a lot going on and kept the reader wanting to keep looking. The speed of this process can take time as when done properly it can look very effective on novels and as many similar existing products use the method you can see why. The audience when using this technique would be more younger than the other methods as it does not capture that sophisticated style. The resources needed for this method can be a pencil, rubber, pen, ruler and paper. Should it be used to a more technical stage then maybe the software on computers.