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:The only thing I could think of that I would have to pay for is if I wanted to add something that the college could not give me, could be if I wanted to add materials like something furry or prickly for the reader to touch. For making the book there would be no cost college gives me access to computer/macs and the drawing equipment.

Available resources:The resources that I have available to me are macs, drawing equipment, pens, paper, drawing pads for the mac and the teacher who if I need anything else he will point me in the right direction to get it, and also if am finding it hard to work with the resources I can ask my teacher to show me how to use it.

Quantity:The quantity of my product is all on how I choose to make it I could want to make a very beautiful looking book with detailed drawings and detailed backgrounds. I could also choose to do a less detailed book that is more aimed at younger kids and are just looking for colourful drawings and funny picture and don’t care for detailed drawings. But to make sure that my work is well made I will be using macs and drawing pads for the detailed parts.

Audience and Target Market:The audience I am looking to sell to is kids aged 3 to 6 who are young and just learning the ways of English and how the world works, my work is not made for a gender because I would like to believe that how my story is written and drawn that both male and female will like it. For class, my book is looking to teach kids about how it is bad to cheat so this can be for any class and can teach them a life lesson but also have a good time reading it. So my target market would be kids age 3 to 6, male or female and any class that would like to teach they kids about why it is bad to cheat.

Quality Factors:The quality of my works can be change by just simply being what day it is for example Tuesday I only have two lessons in the morning so I could of not woken up by the second lesson this could effect how quick I work and how much I get done, but for Wednesday I have lessons all day with little breaks and one big breaks this gives me the chance to work up and also stops me from over working myself. What’s most imported is following a plan and sticking to it, because a plan will keep you in track and tell you what you need to work on.

Codes of Practice:Code of practice is how you should act in legal or financial issues like, clear ownership of the copyright, are you protecting your and making it clear that it is your work and if someone would like to use it they have to ask you if they can and you can work out a deal with them. Also that your publisher does not cancel your contract without good and proper reason, a good reason would be if they have giving you a time and date to finish your work and if you have not competed by that point they have fair reason to cancel the contract, also if they feel like the standard and quality of your work does not meet what they were looking for they may cancel the contract. But above all the publisher must know what the importance of co-operation with the author, this can be seen if the authors is giving the fullest possible credit for their work and their achievements their have made, so the publisher should have confidence in the author to deliver a great story.

Regulation:Any books falling under the definition of toy will have to be compliant with the new toy safety directive 2009/48/EC if sold on the European market. A toy in your book could be simply as something the reading can hold or touch like martials or cardboard glasses all this must be fall under this act. The obscene publication act 1959 and equality act 2010 may also apply depending on the content of your work.

Copyright:If your working with a story that someone else has already created you need to think about copyright laws. It does not mean you cannot produce your work, which is derived from the work of other, but you would have to get permission and share the profits. If your work is using a very old story or the story’s copyright has gone out of date, therefore you can use it without having to share the profits.

Ethical Issues:My book may have ethical issues, which could be, decency, representation and cultural sensitivity if this applies to my work I will have to rewrite my story or change the story completely so that I do not offered anyone.

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?

 Computers [Macs]  YesCome in to college for lessons and ask if I may use them outside of lesson.

 Drawing pads Yes Ask the teacher if I may have one.

 Photoshop  YesCome in to college for lessons and ask if I may use them outside of lesson.

 Pen/pencil  Yes Ask the teacher if I may have one, or bring it in yourself.

 Scanner  Yes Ask the teacher if I may use it.

 Memory stick  NoBorrow one, buy one, or look to see if you have one at home to bring in.

 Paper  Yes  Ask the teacher if I may have some, bring some in yourself.

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: week one Tuesday morning

Background (page one and two)

Finishing off backgrounds and moving on to characters (page one and two)

Finishing characters and moving them on to the background and fixing anything that is off (page one and two)

Adding the writing (page one and two)Session 2:week one Wednesday morning

Background (page three and four)

 Finishing off backgrounds and moving on to characters (page three and four)

 Finishing characters and moving them on to the background and fixing anything that is off (page three and four)

 Adding the writing (page three and four)

Session 3:week one Wednesday afternoon

  Background (page five)

  Finishing off backgrounds and moving on to characters (page five)

 Finishing characters and moving them on to the background and fixing anything that is off (page five)

  Adding the writing (page five)Session 4:week one Thursday afternoon

   Background (page six)

 Finishing off backgrounds and moving on to characters (page six)

  Finishing characters and moving them on to the background and fixing anything that is off (page six)

 Adding the writing (page six)

Session 5: week one Friday morning

Background (page seven)

Finishing off backgrounds and moving on to characters (page seven)

Finishing characters and moving them on to the background and fixing anything that is off (page seven)

Adding the writing (page seven)Session 6: week two Tuesday morning

 Background (page eight)

 Finishing off backgrounds and moving on to characters (page eight)

 Finishing characters and moving them on to the background and fixing anything that is off (page eight)

 Adding the writing (page eight)

Session 7: week two Wednesday morning

 Background ( page nine)

  Finishing off backgrounds and moving on to characters (page nine)

  Finishing characters and moving them on to the background and fixing anything that is off (page nine)

  Adding the writing (page nine)Session 8: week two Wednesday afternoon

 Background (page ten)

 Finishing off backgrounds and moving on to characters (page ten)

 Finishing characters and moving them on to the background and fixing anything that is off (page ten)

 Adding the writing (page ten)

Session 9: week two Thursdays afternoon

 Background (page cover)

 Finishing off backgrounds and moving on to characters (page cover)

 Finishing characters and moving them on to the background and fixing anything that is off (page cover)

 Adding the writing (page cover)Session 10: week two Fridays morning

 Adding finishing torching

 Adding finishing torching

 Checking spelling

 Checking art work

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?

Tripping over wires, leads and bags

Make sure that the wires and leads are coved or are not in people’s way, put bags under table and not in peoples way.

Straining your eyesHave regular breaks and to look away from computer screens from time to time.

 Sitting in a chair for to longHave regular breaks and to stand up and stretch your legs from time to time.

 Chairs not be pushed in  Push your chair after your done with it.

 Leaning forward for to long  Sit back in your chair or stand up