Digital Graphic Narrative

Development

Dan Bell

Shape Task

Evaluation

What did you like about your image?I think that the main qualities of the cartoon type chicken that I have produced are: the way I have managed to get the shadow to go around it, I also think that the colours that I have chosen for each section are suitable to what colour a chicken would really be. Another positive I can take from this is the gradient in the chicken’s eye to give it the shining light effect shown in the real picture. I particularly like the way I have managed to include a “stroke” to each layer. To start with the beak was very hard to make but in the end I think it turned out quite nicely.

What would you improve if you did it again?Despite the positives there are some negatives. If I could re-do this task I would have liked to make the chicken look more chicken like, in my honest opinion it looks a bit too much like an egg with a chicken’s facial features. I would also have liked to get the wattle on top of it’s head a bit neater. Some of the strokes are a little bit too dark as well.

Rotoscope

Evaluation

What did you like about your image?I think that the strongest aspects of my image are the way in that I have managed to get the fur to in a way overlap the colour overlay, the way I have successfully managed to get the monkey into the correct shape. To get the monkey into shape I had to get a photograph of a real monkey, and go around his full body with the ‘polygonal lasso’ tool. I then had to click the ‘layer via copy’ option in order to create a new layer which was just the monkey’s body without the leaves in the background. Another very strong feature of my production is the way in which I managed to notice the smaller features of it’s face, for example the colour of it’s gums and teeth. To find out whether my monkey was properly filled in (no white gaps) I had to turn the background off and I feel I have successfully managed to fill in all the gaps to make it look like a cartoon monkey you’d see in books or on the TV.

What would you improve if you did it again?Given the opportunity to repeat this work I would quite like to get some of the smaller features such as the monkey’s nose into a more accurate shape. I would also have liked to have made it more obvious where the darker features of it’s fur were. I think that I could have made the stripe that runs down the middle of his head look a lot more realistic, I am rather disappointed with that small feature of my work. I also believe that I could have made it more obvious where it’s top teeth and where it’s bottom teeth were.

Text Based

Text Based

Text Based

Evaluation

What did you like about your image?I think the main qualities of these images are the way in which I have managed to produce a different style of text for each copy of my name “Dan Bell”. The one I particularly like is the one on the second slide where the photo of the Gateshead players celebrating is. The reason why I like this one the most is because in order for this to occur I had to get the actual image off the internet, make it overlap the text with my name on then press the ‘clipping mask’ tool which put the photo inside of my name. I think that I also like the way in which my text becomes of a higher quality each time I typed it in and tried new techniques.

What would you improve if you did it again?Given the opportunity to re-do this task I would quite like to make the differences between the text on slide 6 a little more obvious. I think I would also have liked to have used a better font on slide 7 in order to make my name that bit easier to read.

Comic Book

Comic Book

Evaluation

What did you like about your image?I think the main qualities of these images are the way I have successfully manage to transform them from a real life image into a comic strip type, the one I am most impressed with is the top image of Big Dave From The Congo. I enjoyed editing the threshold to give it a more comic book like effect, then changing the blending mode to either screen, overlay or multiply. I also like the way I’ve made Adam Sandler have a different type of skin tone.

What would you improve if you did it again?If I could repeat this task I would like to add more effects to some of the images, make Jamie Chandler’s face and George Spurs’ head appear in image number 1 and also make image 2 more cartoon like. If I could have removed the Gateshead website loge that would have also made the image look a lot better.

Photography

Evaluation

What did you like about your image?I think the main strengths of these images are the way in that they demonstrate happy, sad, excited and lonely. I also think the photos are well taken.

What would you improve if you did it again?If we could repeat this I think I would quite like to take photos of more objects instead of people. I would also have liked to have taken all the happy ones at the same time and vice versa for sad, excited and lonely.

Illustration

Evaluation

What did you like about your image?What I like about my illustration is the way it replicates the North Stand (or Sir Alex Ferguson Stand) at Old Trafford. I think the colours I have chosen match the real thing. I think the way I have managed to do letter, stairs, letter like it is in real life also looks very good.

What would you improve if you did it again?if I could repeat this I think I would have taken more time to take in what it looks like, I think that I could also have included the foreground looking into the stand so things like backs of seats on the opposite side and the pitch.

Initial Ideas

Mood board of inspiration

Idea Generation

Mood board of chosen idea

ProposalDimensions

(number of pages and page size)

Story Overview

(Provide an outline of your story)

Export Format

Advantages:

Disadvantages:

Deadline

Audience

(Think about who you are targeting as your audience. Consider age, gender, class, location and other characteristics which could define your audience.)

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Feedback Summary

Sum up your feedback.

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

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

Storyboards

Storyboards

Storyboards

Original Script

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Original Script

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Final Script

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Digital Flat Plans