Digital Graphic Narrative Planning

Use this booklet to help structure your planning and collate your planning documents.

Considerations:

There are lots of things to consider in this project. Fill out each section in detail to show you have thought about each one. You should imagine that this is a live project, so considerations like cost, quantity and codes of practice must be thought about in that context rather than just as a college project.

Costs:Due to us doing almost all of this work in lesson time and with almost no other props or equipment apart from the Macs and the software we use to do the editing side of things.If you were to go into detail with costs you could state what the cost of printing this book would cost. Or how many were sold. This is kind of hard with this book seen as though it has been published by many different publishers since the early 1800’sAvailable resources:The Macs we use as well as the software’s we will use throughout this project. Photoshop is one of the main ones we will use for producing our main characters and the illustrations for our children’s books.

Quantity:The quantity of how many of these books would be sold I would base on the amount of The three little pigs books sold. Due to this been a very old novel means that a lot of the audience will already have the book or would have heard the full story.You could make a limited edition version of the book with some extras in it to make the product more pleasing to the audience and stand out more from similar products.

Audience and Target Market:The product is aimed at people between the ages of 1-6 years of age due to this been the age they would start to develop their reading and start to be able to hold a story line from start to finish as well as it needing to be illustrated.It’s not specific to any curtain gender due to them not stating what genders the pigs or the wolf is. This has been done purposefully to make it relate to both genders that little bit more.I would see this book relating to most of the classes. This is because when you’re a child less than the ages of 6, the audience really starts to affect this less. This is because they start making products specific for babies and not their genders.Quality Factors:If you run out of time in your time frame then this can lead to a huge decrease in the quality due to your having to rush the last part of the project.Attending all the lessons which have been provided for productionThe equipment you have been provided with needs to be easy to use and efficient

Codes of Practice:The publisher should be aware of the author’s moral rights.This is put in here to make sure the publisher doesn’t take all recognition of the production of a book. The author has a right to be known as the author of product they produceThe only time this rule doesn’t apply is when it’s the author of an encyclopaedia or dictionaries

The publisher must not cancel a contract without good and proper reason.They have to have one of three reasons before they can do anything like this. “TIME’ is the first. If the author fails to deliver the full manuscript of the story before the dead line. The publisher then has the right to

decrease the amount they pay the author dependent on how much longer it has to take.‘STANDRAD OF QUALITY’ If the final product isn’t up the publishers standards they are allowed to take back any advances they gave to the author before hand.‘DEFAMATION and ILLEGALTY’ The publisher has under no right have the authority to publish something which is either seen as plageriesed illegalRegulation:If a book becomes very popular with its audience and other companies start wanting to produce merchandise for this product. They have to go by the Toy Safety Directive before any of them can come into production.The reason we do this is to make sure that any products which do get sold to the public are not harmful in anyway but at the same time there’s nothing which could me miss leading or inappropriate for the age it’s target audience is.

Copyright:When you copyright something, this is a legal document, which makes an idea legally yours. This only lasts for 70 years so that something isn’t constantly copyrighted even after the person has died.If you were going to use something, which someone else has produced, you would need to get permission from the person who has copyrighted it to use his or her idea as your own. Usually this would come with an upfront fee

Ethical Issues:You have to show that take other ethical issue and religious issue into account when producing the final product to make sure it’s not harmful to any cultures or anyone’s beliefs.Usually this is usually how the main characters look in the book. If not this then you need to make sure you don’t write anything which could offend anyone either.

Resources:A successful project relies on good planning. Considering all the resources you will need for a project and then assessing which you already have and which you need will help ensure you are ready to start your project.

If there is a resource you don’t currently have, then consider how you are going to get it before you go in to production.

Resource:Do you have it? What do you need to do to get it?

 Macs  Yes Come into college and attend lesson to have the most opportunity to use the equipment at college

 Internet  Yes  I can use this both at home as well as at college

 Photoshop  Yes

 This is something, which we use to produce our illustrations for our children’s novel. I only have access to this at the college computers

 Memory stick  Yes

 Fonts  No I would need to refer back to Dafont.com to get ideas on which fonts to use in my book

Production Schedule:Delivering your project on time is vital. In order to do this, you need a solid plan of action. This will help you divide up your work in to manageable chunks to be tackled one at a time. It will also allow you to plan which tasks need to be done in which order. It will also allow you to track your progress each day. If you are falling behind, you will need to modify the way you work. If you work faster than expected, you can clearly see what the next steps you need to take are.

Each session is a half day of college.

Session 1:

 I’m going to start producing my ‘three pigs’ and the ‘wolf’ characters from maybe two different angles

 I might try out different styles of making the characters in the first session just so I know which I prefer when making the rest

Session 2:

 Continue making the main characters because I feel I would need at least two half days to make this.

 By this point I will be decided on which style I will use as well.

Session 3:

 I will start to make the backgrounds for my scenes and all the objects I will use in my story

Session 4:

 I will still be adding more detail to the objects which I will be using in the illustrations

Session 5:

 I can start to think about producing the document which I will put the illustrations alongside the first complete section of the story.

 Once this has been done I will go on to produce the second page

 And then the third

Session 6:

 They way I would like to produce this is in order. If I start doing a part of the end and then go back to the beginning then something might get mixed or be missed out meaning the illustration won’t look right

Session 7:

 By this session I would like to have up to around 6 pages complete along side with the narratives split into the right sections so the story fits with the illustrations

Session 8:

 At this stage I would go over everything I have done so far to make sure nothing has been missed out

 If there are any extra details I can add to the illustrations then I can add these then

Session 9:

 I want to have all 8 pages of the book completed with the narratives correctly placed where they’re meant to

Session 10:

 Go through everything I have produced thoroughly to make sure there are no mistakes and that I have produced everything to my full potential

 Make sure I have employed all the skills I have learnt from the start of this projects in my final piece such as using the colour range tool to bring out more detail when rotoscoping.

Health and safety:Your health and safety and that of those around you is very important. Just like in industry, an accident could prevent you from working. Whilst we don’t work in a highly dangerous environment, there are still risks. Some are short term, such as trips and spillages whilst others, such as long term damage to eyesight or back problems, may affect you much later in life.

Consider the risks based on the activities you will be undertaking during the project. Explain how you could prevent them from happening.

Ensure you reference appropriate pieces of legislation, design to protect people at work.

Health and Safety Issue How can you prevent it?

 Eye Strain You can take regular breaks from the work so your eyes don’t get fatigued by the computer screen

 Back Pains

 Makes sure to have some movement every so often so that you don’t cramp up muscles been sat behind a computer all day

No drinks near computer Could be spilt and cause issues with your work ( Might break computer

Don’t leave cables hanging out  People might trip over on these