Digital Graphic Narrative

Development

Will Morgan

Shape Task

Evaluation

What did you like about your image?One thing that I liked about my image was that there are a lot of important features which you can easily add which means the animal is easily identifiable as a elephant which helps young children understand. For example , tusks and big ears help children understand that the animal is an elephant because of its recognizable features. Another thing I like about this image is that it is very simple and has simple features but still still looks good.

What would you improve if you did it again? One thing I would improve if I did it again would be to focus on certain parts of the animal such as the legs and so the legs look more correct and not distort or oddly shaped. Legs are an important part of an animal and making them look right improves the overall look of the animal.

Shape Task

Evaluation

What did you like about your image?One thing that I liked about my image was that there are a lot of important features which you can easily add which means the animal is easily identifiable as a Gazelle which helps young children understand. Another thing I like about this image is that it is very simple and has simple features but still still looks good and is still recognizable as a Gazelle.

What would you improve if you did it again? One thing I would improve if I did it again would be to focus on certain details around the face areas so that it is easy to recognise the animal and its features such as eyes , nose etc.. Adding these details improve the look of the rotoscope but adding to much detail will remove its comical effect and it will be start to be less of a rotoscope and more of a highly detailed picture.

Shape Task

Evaluation

What did you like about your image?One thing that I liked about my image was that it was it was simple but gave off a good effect and represented what I was trying to produce very well. Panda’s have lots of simple shapes and by creating a small number of shapes , you can get the outline of the head and body. Another thing that I liked about my images was that I used the colour range tool so that I could add texture to the image. Adding texture allowed me to improve the look of the whole image and gave it more detail.

What would you improve if you did it again?One thing that I would try to improve if I did it again would be to spend more time on making the panda blend in and suit the background more so that everything looked a lot more natural and it was more detailed. For example the grass under the Panda needs to be darker because of the shadow which the panda’s body will cast over it.

Rotoscope

Evaluation

What did you like about your image?One thing that I liked about this image was the simple features that the face has and how the simplicity portrays the full facial features. For creating these simple features , I only took parts of the main features to give the impression that it was there and I didn’t have to draw the full thing on the Rotoscope. An example of this is the nose where I only drew the outlines to give the impression of it and not the full thing. This style of not drawing the full thing is very comical and makes more detailed things , more comical and simpler.

What would you improve if you did it again?One thing that I would improve if I did it again would be the skin. The skin colour that I choose was maybe abit pale for the person who I was Rotoscoping and it therefore may not have looked correct. Another thing that I would improve if I did it again is to focus on the Jersey. I would focus on this because there were a lot of creases and shadows in the jersey and I tried to replicate some but not all which made the jersey look abit odd. These some bits of extra detail help make the the rotoscope look better and improve its overall look.

Rotoscope

Evaluation

What did you like about your image?I like Rotoscoping because it allows me to make a photo of someone look very cartoony and unreal. For Rotoscoping , you just put the main facial features and assets which means the person or item you are Rotoscoping is easily identifiable as them. An example of this is the moustache which Ron burgundy has which allows him to be very recognizable. I made these features by cutting out the a outline of the real moustache and placing onto a cartoon face and then I overlaid it with a brown colour. Rotoscoping just involves putting simple features on and not putting any mass range of detail in the picture.

What would you improve if you did it again?One thing that I would improve if I did it again is to focus on the details around the eyes and in some other areas. Although these small details aren't necessary to the whole image , they can help a lot to improve the look of images in areas.

Rotoscope

Evaluation

What did you like about your image?One thing that I liked about the rotoscope that I did was that I could use different tools on Photoshop to give a really good effect and how the car properly looks. One thing that helped me make the car look properly was using the gradient overlay tool to get different lighting effects which means the car look better and would look in place more with sun and shadows on different parts of the car. Another thing that I liked about my image was that in rotoscoping , you only get the basic shapes and outlines and from the rotoscope I did , I feel like that I have only done the important outlines which makes the car recognizable.

What would you improve if you did it again?One thing that I would improve if I did it again is to improve the wheels on the car. The car’s wheels had lots of spokes and quite complicated and the original image was dark and wasn’t a very high quality which means I did not have lots of options on how to do the wheels. I think if I did it again , I would spend a lot more time on the project and spend time thinking about every single way of doing something.

Text Based

Evaluation

What did you like about your image?One thing that I liked about Text based is the amount of range and styles you can get by using different tools and features. For example , spacing text apart , making it closer together etc.. One technique which I particularly liked was picture clipping. This involved taking a picture and putting it into the text. This technique can drastically improve the look of the text and anything around it. Due to the diversity of this technique , it can be used in or on almost anything and is very simple to do.

What would you improve if you did it again?One that I would improve if I did it again would be to explore the colour gradients more. This feature I used but not to its full extent and I think I could of got a lot more out of this feature. Another thing I would do if I did it again would be for the picture clipping is to choose a more suitable image. I would do this because due to the nature of the technique , you have to stretch some images and then they look distort and wrong.

Comic Book

EvaluationWhat did you like about your image?I used the cut-out filter from the filter gallery in Photoshop which allowed me to make my images look very cartoony. I also liked that I could change and vary my images so that I could distinguish my images apart by changing the settings. To distinguish my images apart I used the threshold tool and blending options to make the image look different and to change them about. I used the blending options to lighten or darken the image which creates shadows in places which gives a good effect. The threshold tool also means that I am able to create shadows in areas of the image. For the three images that I did , I changed my effects for each one so that the image would look different.

What would you improve if you did it again?One thing that I would improve if I did it again would be to utilise the blending options more so I could give my images a more distinct look. Another thing that I would do if I did it again would also be also to maybe use a high threshold. This , depending on the image could have created a very good effect which I might have missed. Something else that I would improve if I did it again is image choice. I could of chosen

Photography

Evaluation

What did you like about your image?One thing that I liked about my images was they all displayed very child like things/emotions. For example , a bike , happy emotions and a goal post. I chose these things because football and biking are very big for children and they put happy emotions onto children so I think these pictures I took can display children’s emotions and feelings. One of photo I took was of a person smiling and I think it is very child-like when there is a big grin on a face of someone. This is a photo which displayed happy emotions similar to that of a child. I have tried in all of my photos to get a secret meaning to the photo so they worked effectively to display children’s emotions.

What would you improve if you did it again?One thing that I would improve if I did it again would be to plan on where to take the photos more. I think this because I spent about 10 mins looking and thinking of places to take photos which wasted time and I think I could have had a little time to think more which means I spent less time outside taking and searching for photos.

Illustration

Evaluation

What did you like about your image?One thing that I liked about my image was that I could easily add and take away parts and detail from my image which allowed me to adapt my image into anyway I wanted it to. Another thing that I liked about my image is that it allowed me to draw a range of things which broadens its use quite significant because almost anyone could use this style.

What would you improve if you did it again?One thing I would do if I did it again is to focus on some aspects of the detail more. Having lots of detail in a illustration improves the overall look of it. Another thing that I could of done to improve it is to add colour. Colours can improve the look of the image but in certain cases they can also make the illustration look wrong. I chose not to put colour on for this reason.

Illustration

Evaluation

What did you like about your image?One thing that I liked about my image was that it was simple and didn’t have masses of detail. Although lots of detail is good and makes the overall image look better , more simple illustrations can in some in situations have a lot better effect and suit different styles a lot more. Another thing that I liked about my image was that there wasn’t any proper restrictions in terms of file size etc so I could add whatever and as much detail as I needed.

What would you improve if you did it again?One thing that I would improve if I did it again is to spend a lot more time on certain areas of the project so that the overall image would look better. One area which I think I could of spent more time on is the body and wheel arches. With more time , I could of improved the look of the overall illustration and made it look better. Another thing that I could of done to improve the illustration if I did it again would be to add shading in areas so you could see where the light is and where the shadows and darker patches will be.

Initial Ideas

Mood board of inspiration

Mood board of chosen idea

Characters-Little red riding hoodThere are many different styles and formats in which you can draw the illustrations , from the very detailed to the very cartoon like effect. For my children’s book , I have decided to go for very cartoony illustrations as I think it would be better suited to a children’s book.For my story , I have based it off Little red riding hood but I have changed it slightly so that it is not a direct copy. I plan to include a different version of Little red riding hood into my story.

Character-GrandmotherFor my story , I also plan to still include the grandmother from the original. I think this is good because it makes sure my story doesn’t go to far from the original but still has its differences.

There are many art types and styles that I could illustrate the grandmother in but I have gone for a cartoon-like effect which I think will be more suitable for kids.

Character-otherFor my version of little red riding hood , I plan to add a few more characters so that my story is not the same as the original. One extra character I add is a fox which will replace the position of the wolf which eats the and then dresses like the grandmother. Another example of a extra character I have added is a cow which helps little red riding hood along the way when she gets lost.

Setting/sceneFor my story , I plan to set it in the countryside and in deep forests and a farm where the grandmother lives. This setting is very similar to the original which I have tried to do but I have added a twist on it because it is the modern day and the grandmother lives on a farm.

I will also draw the setting in a cartoon-like effect because it will work well with the characters and I think it is more suitable for a children's book.

Text types fontsLittle Red riding hoodLittle Red riding hood

Little Red riding hood

Little Red riding hood

Little Red riding hood

Little Red riding hood

Little Red riding hood

Little Red riding hood

Little Red riding hood

For my children’s story , I plan to use a sans-serif font because in my opinion , children will find a sans-serif font easier to read and understand and in a children’s book where a large majority of the readers haven't been properly reading for that long , making sure every word is clear is very important. For the examples of text on the left , I have included both serif fonts and sans-serif font for idea generation and ideas.

ProposalDimensionsFor my story I plan to do around 10-12 pages because then the story isn't too long and there is enough pages to tell a good story. Having a too long book may mean that the children reading it may get bored. The panned dimensions of my book are 25.1 x 0.1.5 x 18cm. I think these dimensions are big enough so that the child can easily read the book.

Story Overview

My story is a modern day version of Little red riding hood. The story is that Little Red riding hood leaves her parents house to go to her grandmothers in the country to drop off some food. Little red riding hood leaves her parents house in her land rover and drives through a deep forest to get to her grandmothers house. Along the way there is a road junction and she doesn’t know the way to go. A friendly cow speaks to her and tells her the way to go. As she carries on down the road a Fox jumps out in front of the vehicle and challenges saying why is she coming down the fox’s stretch of land. After an argument , the fox reluctantly leaves and then little red riding hood carries on. The fox has ran to her grandmothers house and hides her in the cupboard when the fox steals all the food from the house. Little red riding hood knocks on the door and gets no-reply so she goes in she hears the fox saying “hello dear”. ‘you sound odd” says little red riding hood as the fox jumps out under the bed and runs unto little red riding hood while she screams. A nearby farmer hears the screams and starts running towards the house. The farmer runs in and protects little red riding hood and the fox gets scared due to the famer pointing a gun at the fox. The famer and little red riding hood let her grandmother out and the fox never returns.

Export FormatI plan to export my story in the PDF file type. PDF stands for ‘’Portable document file”.

Advantages: Almost anyone can open that file type which means more people will be able to view and read the story. Another advantage of PDF files is that they can contain and compress larger files so they take up less space.Disadvantages: One disadvantage of PDF files is that they have limited support on Linux and UNIX operating system which means people using that operating system cannot open the story. Another disadvantage of PDF files is that sometimes they are not built in with web pages and requires the user to download extra applications which may be hard if there is no internet for example.

Deadline

20 March

Audience

The target audience of my book will be about 5-7 years because there is a small amount of writing but not enough for a chapter book which is designed for older people. There is no specific gender which I try to aim my story at because I think it is very unisex. I will try and aim my story at as many people as possible so there is not a social class which is specific to my book. This makes the book appeal to a wider audience. Due to the origins of my story and it’s base , the majority of people interested in my book will be in the UK but there may be others in other English speaking countries such as the USA and Canada.

Production Methods

For producing the pages and content for my story , I will use Adobe Photoshop and other adobe products. In Photoshop , I will be rotoscoping objects , putting cartoon effects on different things , and making backgrounds etc.. I may draw out the content before trying to replicate it on Photoshop because that way I can get a better way of looking (Explain the methods you are going to use to produce your pages. Show us the thinking behind your decisions for a more detail response)

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

I like that you went into a lot of depth with what your story will be about it give you a clear understanding of the twist you are going to put on your story. For most of your proposal you have gone into a lot of depth which will help you when it comes to you creating the children's book.

Overall the proposal is very good but I think that it could be beneficial to add some more detail in why you are going to use certain methods because this could be useful when you start designing your book and can look at what you want to use the methods for and why.

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

The mind map you created is really well done because you went into depth for each section and this can be helpful later on in this project and its good you had a good explanations on your mood boards that you created because it really shows why you picked them images.

A good way to develop the mood boards could be to add a few more images which could give you some more inspiration for the design and illustrations for your children's book.

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

There is a lot of description and information regarding the clear storyline of the book, and why the particular file types strengths and weaknesses. There is also in depth explanation of how you will proceed to create the book and illustrations using Photoshop.

Maybe mention the class of the people that will be purchasing the book that you are making and why this is the chosen group. Maybe explain the knock on effect of a bigger book, such as larger text that’s easier to read, or larger more detailed illustrations.

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

Lots of description for each idea related to the book, allowing for much more depth when you refer back to them during production.

Maybe split the large chunks of description into smaller sub sections as it might be easier to navigate to certain ideas. Possibly mention the educational purposes (if any) of the book, such as improving reading skills.

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

Lots of infoClear ideas for the storylineGood idea of the pros as well as the cons to using a PDF file Good idea of a easy to handle page size

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

Clear layoutLots of sides for each of the main people in the story with info for whyAdding a twist to the story Lots of info on the mind map gives a good covering of the story ideas for the start of planning

No text or info for why you picked the text you have as well as no final text idea

Feedback Summary

Sum up your feedback.

To sum up my feedback I would say I need to add more detail and images to parts of my proposal and idea. One example where I need to add more detail is when mentioning who my target audience is and which people im aiming my book at , I need to add what social class my book is being aimed at and why. Another place where I can add detail is on my ideas generation , I need to add more images which help illustrate the characters im going to make. Which parts of your feedback do you agree with and why?One piece of feedback which I agree with is to spilt the large chunks of description up so that the text is more identifiable. Another piece of feedback which I would agree with is that I have not correctly explained what text font and style I will be using and why. I agree with this because the text is an important part of the story.

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

One part of feedback which I disagree with is on the explanation of the larger effect of the book , I feel like this is not a overly important part of the book.

Storyboards

Storyboards

Storyboards

Original Script

Once upon a time there was a dear little girl who was loved by everyone who looked at her, but most of all by her grandmother, and there was nothing that she would not have given to the child. Once she gave her a little riding hood of red velvet, which suited her so well that she would never wear anything else; so she was always called 'Little Red Riding Hood.' One day her mother said to her: 'Come, Little Red Riding Hood, here is a piece of cake and a bottle of wine; take them to your grandmother, she is ill and weak, and they will do her good. Set out before it gets hot, and when you are going, walk nicely and quietly and do not run off the path, or you may fall and break the bottle, and then your grandmother will get

nothing; and when you go into her room, don't forget to say, "Good morning", and don't peep into every corner before you do it.'

'I will take great care,' said Little Red Riding Hood to her mother, and gave her hand on it. The grandmother lived out in the wood, half a league from the village, and just as Little Red Riding Hood entered the wood,

a wolf met her. Red Riding Hood did not know what a wicked creature he was, and was not at all afraid of him. 'Good day, Little Red Riding Hood,' said he.

'Thank you kindly, wolf.' 'Whither away so early, Little Red Riding Hood?'

'To my grandmother's.' 'What have you got in your apron?'

'Cake and wine; yesterday was baking-day, so poor sick grandmother is to have something good, to make her stronger.' 'Where does your grandmother live, Little Red Riding Hood?'

'A good quarter of a league farther on in the wood; her house stands under the three large oak-trees, the nut-trees are just below; you surely must know it,' replied Little Red Riding Hood.

< 2 > The wolf thought to himself: 'What a tender young creature! what a nice plump mouthful - she will be better to eat than

the old woman. I must act craftily, so as to catch both.' So he walked for a short time by the side of Little Red Riding Hood, and then he said: 'See, Little Red Riding Hood, how

pretty the flowers are about here - why do you not look round? I believe, too, that you do not hear how sweetly the little birds are singing; you walk gravely along as if you were going to school, while everything else out here in the wood is merry.'

Little Red Riding Hood raised her eyes, and when she saw the sunbeams dancing here and there through the trees, and pretty flowers growing everywhere, she thought: 'Suppose I take grandmother a fresh nosegay; that would please her too. It is

so early in the day that I shall still get there in good time.' So she ran from the path into the wood to look for flowers. And whenever she had

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picked one, she fancied that she saw a still prettier one farther on, and ran after it, and so got deeper and deeper into the wood.

Meanwhile the wolf ran straight to the grandmother's house and knocked at the door. 'Who is there?'

'Little Red Riding Hood,' replied the wolf. 'She is bringing cake and wine; open the door.' 'Lift the latch,' called out the grandmother, 'I am too weak, and cannot get up.'

The wolf lifted the latch, the door sprang open, and without saying a word he went straight to the grandmother's bed, and devoured her. Then he put on her clothes, dressed himself in her cap, laid himself in bed and drew the curtains.

Little Red Riding Hood, however, had been running about picking flowers, and when she had gathered so many that she could carry no more, she remembered her grandmother, and set out on the way to her.

< 3 > She was surprised to find the cottage-door standing open, and when she went into the room, she had such a strange

feeling that she said to herself: 'Oh dear! how uneasy I feel today, and at other times I like being with grandmother so much.' She called out: 'Good morning,' but received no answer; so she went to the bed and drew back the curtains. There lay her

grandmother with her cap pulled far over her face, and looking very strange. 'Oh! grandmother,' she said, 'what big ears you have!'

'All the better to hear you with, my child,' was the reply. 'But, grandmother, what big eyes you have!' she said.

'All the better to see you with, my dear.' 'But, grandmother, what large hands you have!'

'All the better to hug you with.' 'Oh! but, grandmother, what a terrible big mouth you have!'

'All the better to eat you with!' And scarcely had the wolf said this, than with one bound he was out of bed and swallowed up Red Riding Hood.

When the wolf had appeased his appetite, he lay down again in the bed, fell asleep and began to snore very loud. The huntsman was just passing the house, and thought to himself: 'How the old woman is snoring! I must just see if she

wants anything.' So he went into the room, and when he came to the bed, he saw that the wolf was lying in it. 'Do I find you here, you old sinner!' said he. 'I have long sought you!' But just as he was going to fire at him, it occurred to

him that the wolf might have devoured the

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grandmother, and that she might still be saved, so he did not fire, but took a pair of scissors, and began to cut open the stomach of the sleeping wolf.

< 4 > When he had made two snips, he saw the little red riding hood shining, and then he made two snips more, and the little girl sprang out,

crying: 'Ah, how frightened I have been! How dark it was inside the wolf.' After that the aged grandmother came out alive also, but scarcely able to breathe. Red Riding Hood, however, quickly fetched great stones with which they filled the wolf's belly, and when he awoke, he wanted to run away, but the stones were so heavy that he collapsed at once,

and fell dead. Then all three were delighted. The huntsman drew off the wolf's skin and went home with it; the grandmother ate the cake and drank the wine which Red Riding Hood had brought, and revived. But Red Riding Hood thought to herself: 'As long as I live, I will never leave the path

by myself to run into the wood, when my mother has forbidden me to do so.'

It is also related that once, when Red Riding Hood was again taking cakes to the old grandmother, another wolf spoke to her, and tried to entice her from the path. Red Riding Hood, however, was on her guard, and went straight forward on her way, and told her grandmother that

she had met the wolf, and that he had said 'good morning' to her, but with such a wicked look in his eyes, that if they had not been on the public road she was certain he would have eaten her up.

'Well,' said the grandmother, 'we will shut the door, so that he can not come in.' Soon afterwards the wolf knocked, and cried: 'Open the door, grandmother, I am Little Red Riding Hood, and am bringing you some cakes.'

But they did not speak, or open the door, so the grey-beard stole twice or thrice round the house, and at last jumped on the roof, intending to wait until Red Riding Hood went home in the evening, and then to steal after her and devour her in the darkness. But the

grandmother saw what was in his thoughts.< 5 >

In front of the house was a great stone trough, so she said to the child: 'Take the pail, Red Riding Hood; I made some sausages yesterday, so carry the water in which I boiled them to the trough.'

Red Riding Hood carried until the great trough was quite full. Then the smell of the sausages reached the wolf, and he sniffed and peeped down, and at last stretched out his neck so far that he could no longer keep his footing and began to slip, and slipped down from the roof

straight into the great trough, and was drowned. But Red Riding Hood went joyously home, and no one ever did anything to harm her again.

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/LittRed.shtml

Final Script

Final scriptPage 1 In a peaceful village next to a wood, there lived a mother and daughter.

Page 2 One day the mother told her daughter that her grandmother was ill and that she needed food and water taken to her house

in the forest.

Page 3 The daughter had never been into the forest and had heard bad stories about it. She set off because she knew that her grandmother needed her help. She got into her truck and set off into the forest.

Page 4 As she drove down a small narrow path, a large fox ran out in front of the car and blocks her path. The fox looks into the eyes

of the daughter and asks “Going somewhere?’…

Page 5 The daughter turns white with fear and tells the fox “I’m going to see my sick grandmother”. The fox smirks and slowly walks off into the trees. She carries on driving through the wood…

Page 6 She arrives at the clearing where her grandmother’s house is. The daughter gets out the car, grabs the food and slowly walks

over to the door.While walking over to the door, she hears loud knocking coming from the house…

Page 7 She walks up to the door and knocks on it. “Come in” says a crooked, creaky voice. She thought to herself, “That’s doesn’t

sound like grandmother”. She replies “Grandmother, is that you?” as she opens the door to find a pitch black room…

Page 8 She quickly turns on the light to see a fox staring straight at her. “Evening” the fox, says. “Where’s grandmother?” she says worryingly. “Locked in the cupboard” the fox says, while laughing to himself…

Page 9 The fox started to approach the daughter.” I’m going to eat you up!” he said. She dropped the food and started screaming

loudly while moving back towards the door…

Page 10 A nearby farmer heard the screams and starts running over towards the house. The farmer pointed his pitchfork at the fox and shouted loudly; the fox quickly gets scared and runs away for it never to be seen again. The daughter released her grandmother

from the cupboard and everyone lived happily ever after…

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