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Digital Graphic Narrative

Development

Nick Aldous

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Shape Task

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Evaluation

What did you like about your image?What I liked the most about my image was its simplicity. Basing it around primary colours it both shows the fun side to the image and the pop art side of the design. A particular example of this is the colour of the chicken’s body. Even though a blue chicken does not exist, in pop art people often change the colour of things so that they don’t look real but you can very easily tell what it is meant to be.

What would you improve if you did it again?If I were to do it again, I would chose a different animal as the chicken is very hard to warp as it has a lot of bends and curves.

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Rotoscope

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Evaluation

What did you like about your image?In my opinion, the best part of my image is the colour scheme. I chose a pug to rotoscope and pugs are usually beige and black but I chose to use a range of dark blues and reds for my image, they still contrast but look more funky than beige and black.

What would you improve if you did it again?

If I were to do it again I’d chose an animal with more colours as this seemed to be repetitive when it came to choosing colours.

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Text Based

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Evaluation

What did you like about your image?

The thing I like the most about my text based image is the font. I like the font because parts of the letter are empty whilst others have parts of a picture in them so you can read the words and see the picture behind it clearly.

What would you improve if you did it again?

If I were to do it again I would choose a different image so you could easily tell what it was. I’d choose a sky as it’s a simple image compared to a crowd.

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Comic Book

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Evaluation

What did you like about your image?

I like the variety of colours the most. As it’s quite ironic that it’s a paintballing image that includes a lot of different colours.

What would you improve if you did it again?

If I were to do it again I would use another artistic effect as I feel another one might look better.

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Photography

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Photography

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Photography

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Evaluation

What did you like about your image?

It shows happiness in a very simple yet effective way. I like its simplicity and that just a dog can make someone smile.

What would you improve if you did it again?

If I did it again I’d try to dig deeper into photographing happiness, although I like the simplicity of the image, it’d be nice to try something different.

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Evaluation

What did you like about your image?

I like how small the person in the image is compared to the building and the floor. It effectively shows loneliness.

What would you improve if you did it again?

If I did it again I would choose a more secluded place to show mood and effect.

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What did you like about your image?I like how the image makes you think. This image is meant to show excitement and it does but you have to think about how the picture shows excitement and the challenge of the image is really effective.

What would you improve if you did it again?If I were to do it again I would use somebody’s facial expression to show excitement and not something that makes you think, although I am very happy with the chosen image.

Evaluation

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Illustration

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EvaluationWhat did you like about your image?

I like the difference between the character and the background. The background is a coloured 60’s/70’s style stripy background compared to the cartoon character.

What would you improve if you did it again?

If I were to do it again I would draw a different character as Ralph Wiggum was too easy and not challenging in the slightest.

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Initial Ideas

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Mood board of inspiration

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Idea Generation

Idea generation

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Mood board of chosen idea

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ProposalDimensions

210mm x 297mm. 8-12 pages.

Story Overview

(Provide an outline of your story)The story is about one hungry fox who bakes a gingerbread man for his lunch. But, the gingerbread man runs away and now the fox has to catch his lunch.My story’s target audience is the age group of 3-6 years old. It is suitable for either gender. This book will suit anybody’s interest as it isn’t pointed towards a particular hobby.

Export Format

PDF

Advantages: PDF’s are compact and easy to compress large files.

Disadvantages: PDF’s cannot open on most computers.

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Deadline

16/10/14

Audience

(Think about who you are targeting as your audience. Consider age, gender, class, location and other characteristics which could define your audience.) my target audience is children between the ages of 3-6. It can be suitable for any class or gender. The book will be written in british english so it is mainly for children who can read british text.

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)For my illustrations I will use coloured pencils and pens to draw the characters and various scenes. For my text, I will use various fonts for the actual book’s dialogue, the book’s front cover and the book’s blurb. The font for the book’s dialogue will be clear and easy to read yet, fun and quirky. The book’s front cover will have a more fun and lively font.

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

The strengths of this proposal are that it directed at

the right age range for the story, it has the plenty of

detail to become a good book if the plan is

followed.

You could think more about the audience,

specifically whether adults would enjoy reading this

to children. Other than that it is a good proposal.

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

further developed?

There are a variety of different styles of ways in

which to draw the characters. This will make it

easier when it comes to actually drawing the

characters.

You could look at other books that have been

published and see what they used as their

characters. You could also focus on the background

more and get different pictures of each background

that you plan to use.

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

You have written clearly how you are going to

produce your book and what materials you will use

to do so. Your statements about the PDF files were

straight forward and easy to understand.

You need to write a better explanation for you're

story as it is to short an lacks detail. Try not to

repeat your self as you have done this with the

story over view and the audience.

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

further developed?

You have found pictures for all the main parts of

you're story such as the fox Gingerbread man and

the setting. This shows clearly that you have an

idea and you have come to a conclusion.

You could try looking at other possibilities for you

book before you come to one conclusion. Try

finding some more pictures as these may give you

some more ideas.

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

The first strength in Nicks proposal is that he has

thought clearly about how he will create his book

and gone into to detail about texts and images. I

also feel that Nick has a strong start to his story

overview and a basic idea of what the story will be

about.

Despite the strong idea for the story, I feel Nick

needs to go into more detail about his story and

have a set order of events that will happen in the

book.

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

further developed?

Nick has focuses a lot on what his ginger bread

character may look like in his ideas generation and

has a range of different images for the character.

Nick also has a good mind map which includes

some quotes that he could use in his story.

Nick can develop his ideas further by making a

mood board for his fox character and also making a

mood board for he backgrounds throughout his

story.

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Feedback Summary

Sum up your feedback.

I feel that my feedback was very accurate. Yep, I wasn’t finished and didn’t intend to leave some things that were left and some of them I did intend on leaving but I’ll have to go back and check. I was told to make a mood board for my scenes which I have but I didn’t have time to save it as a jpeg and put it in, which is a shame.

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

I agree with parts that say I am repeating myself. Yep, im definitely doing that and I need to change that.

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

I don’t really disagree with anything, if people feel things need improving, I will improve them. However, nobody made any rational statements like “nick needs to rethink his whole idea of this project” which is a relief.

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Storyboards

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Storyboards

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Storyboards

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Original Script

Once upon a time there was a little old woman and a little old man. The little old woman thought she'd make a gingerbread man. She rolled out the dough, and cut out the shape, and she put

raisins for his eyes, and peppermints for his teeth, and put icing on his head for the hair. Then she put him in the oven, and when it smelled good, she opened up the door to take a peek and ---Yooop!---out jumped the gingerbread man. "Stop! Stop, little gingerbread man!" said the little old lady. "I want to eat you!" "No!" said the little gingerbread man. "I can run away from you!" "Run, run, fast as you can! Can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man!" And away he ran! He ran till he got outside, where he saw the little old man. And the little old man said, "Stop! Stop little gingerbread man! I want to eat you!" And the little gingerbread man said: "NO! I ran away from the little old woman, and I can run away from you too! Run, run, fast as you can! Can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man!" and away he ran! He ran till he came to the pigsty. And the pig said "(Oink Oink)-- Stop! Stop little gingerbread man! I want to eat you!" But the gingerbread man said, "NO! I ran away from the little old woman, I ran away from the little old man, and I can run away from you too! Run, run, fast as you can! Can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man!" and away he ran! He ran till he came to a house. And in front of the house was a dog. And the dog said, "STOP! Stop stop stop stop stoooooooooop! Little gingerbread man! I want to eat you!" But the gingerbread man said, "NO! I ran away from the little old woman, and the little old man, and a pig, and I can run away from you too!" Run, run, fast as you can! Can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man!" and away he ran! He ran till he came to a field full of cows. And the cows said, "Mooooo! Stoooooooop! Stoooooooop little gingerbread man. We want to eat you!" But the gingerbread man said, "NO! I ran away from the little old woman, I ran away from the little old man, and a pig, and a dog, and I can run away from you too!

http://www.folktale.net/GBman.html

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Original ScriptRun, run, fast as you can! Can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man!" and away he ran! He ran till he came to a field full of cows. And the cows said, "Mooooo! Stoooooooop! Stoooooooop little gingerbread man. We want to eat you!" But the gingerbread man said, "NO! I ran away from the little old woman, I ran away from the little old man, and a pig, and a dog, and I can run away from you too! Run, run, fast as you can! Can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man!" and away he ran! He ran till he came to a river. And next to the river was a fox. The fox said, "Hello little gingerbread man." The gingerbread man said, "HELLO! I ran away from the little old woman, I ran away from the little old man, and a pig, and some cows, and I can run away from you too! Run, run, fast as you can! Can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man!" "But," said the fox, "I never run. And I don't want to eat you!" The gingerbread man said Run, run, fast as you can! Can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man!" The fox said, "Run all you want, I'm not going to chase you. But-- I would like to ask you a question." The gingerbread man said, "What?" The fox said, "How do figure you're going to get across that stream without getting wet? I mean, if you get wet, you'll get soggy, right?" The gingerbread man didn't say anything, but he looked very thoughtful. The fox said, "I've got an idea." The gingerbread man said, "What?" The fox said, "I'm going to swim across, right now. If you want, you can hitch a ride on my tail." The gingerbread man said, "OK," and grabbed the fox's tail. The fox started to wade into the water. After a few steps, the fox said, "Oh, little gingerbread man. The water is getting kind of deep. I'm afraid you might get wet. Why don't you climb up onto my back?" The gingerbread man looked, and said, "Gee, the water is getting kind of deep, ok," and he climbed up onto the fox's back. After a few more steps, the fox said, "Oh, little gingerbread man, the water is getting even deeper, I'm afraid you might get wet. Why don't you climb up onto my-- neck?" The gingerbread man looked, and said, "Gee the water is getting kind of deep, ok," and he climbed up onto the fox's neck. After a few more steps, the fox said, "Oh, little gingerbread man, the water is getting even deeper, I'm afraid you might get wet. Why don't you climb up onto my-- head?" The gingerbread man looked, and said, "Gee the water is getting kind of deep, ok," and he climbed up onto the fox's head. After a few more steps, the fox said, "Oh, little gingerbread man, the water is getting even deeper, I'm afraid you might get wet. Why don't you climb up onto my-- nose?" The gingerbread man looked, and said, "Gee the water is getting kind of deep, ok," and he climbed up onto the fox's nose. And the fox went--SHLLLURP!-- and that was the end of the gingerbread man.

http://www.folktale.net/GBman.html

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Final Script

PAGE 1 One, morning a fox came out of bed, his name was Freddy but his

friends call him Fred. The sun was yellow and his fur was red, But he only

had one thought in his head… Lunch. After he’d wake, he began to bake.

Something sweet, something you cant beat, something fun and so nice it

would want to run. A gingerbread man.

PAGE 2 So as time progressed, Freddy tried his best and the result was

just what he wanted to eat, he began to look at the head and down to the

feet. So Freddy just went to pick up his food until the gingerbread man was

incredibly rude and split milk all over the floor on his way out of the door!

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Freddy was nowhere near ready, it was such a shock and a scare, the

gingerbread man ran from bottom to top and here to there!

Freddy chased the gingerbread man through the forest….

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PAGE 4- Freddy chased the gingerbread man through the village.

PAGE 5- Freddy chased the gingerbread man through the rain

PAGE 6- Freddy chased the gingerbread man through boiling hot sunshine

Page 7- Freddy chased the gingerbread man from London to Tokyo.

Page 8- But wait?! The gingerbread man seems to have fallen over! At this point, Freddy is very tired, hungry and angry at the gingerbread man. But by the goodness of his heart, Freddy helps the gingerbread man up, dusts him off and….

Page 9 – EATS THE GINGERBREAD MAN IN ONE BIG BITE.

Final Script

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Digital Flat Plans

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