Digital Graphic Narrative

Development

Emma Wells

Shape Task

EvaluationWhat did you like about your image?I like how you can easily tell what animal it is, even if you don’t think of the exact animal. This is due to small shapes being used to distinguish the animals features and make it easy to tell what animal it is. To make this image I took an image of my chosen animal, which was a Lioness, and pasted it into Photoshop. I then used small shapes to make the outer shape of the lioness so I could add features later. I changed the opacity of each shape and warped them into the shape of a feature of the lion and then coloured it close to the animals colour range. I like how the shapes came together with the colours as they look as close to the original as possible. I chose the colours I did because they were close to the colours of the lioness which helped make the image more realistic and for people to spot the animal better.

What would you improve if you did it again?If I could do this image again I would add more shapes to the image to make out more features of the animal. This can help children identify the animal. I would also change the background of the image so it would look more realistic for the animal which will make it even easier to distinguish the animal.

Shape Task 2

Evaluation

What did you like about your image?For this image, I liked how the shapes have been used to create the animal and it’s background as they look as

realistic as they can be and makes it obvious what animal it is and what his whereabouts are. To make this image I used small shapes to make the out line of the animal which was made by warping the shapes I put in to make it as close to the animal shape as possible.. Once I did that I colour overlayed the shapes to a similar colour to that part of that animal. I did that for every part of the animal I could see and colour overlayed them to a similar colour to the part I was overlaying. This completed the animal.

Once that was done I used shapes to create the background for the animal and make it look more realistic to my target audience. I like the background because it gives the image more colour and catches the eye of my audience.

What would you improve if you did it again?If I could do this again I would add more texture to the animal which will make it look like it had

fur which it does it real life.

Shape Task 3

Evaluation

What did you like about your image?For this image, I really like the cats eyes as I think they’re eye catching and stand out from the image,

making your eyes go straight to the eyes. I also like how the whiskers look as they look real and go well with the image. The nose also gains my interest as it’s very smoothly shaped and looks as real as it can be. The ears are also very perky, like a real cats ears, and gains the attention of your eyes. Finally, I think the background goes well with the image and makes the cat look at home and also makes the image more interesting.

What would you improve if you did it again?If I could do this again, I would spend more time on the body of the cat and put more detail into the fur on the

body and face. I would also make the claws more visible so you can actually tell that the cat has claws instead of just a paw.

RotoscopeAdam Lambert

EvaluationWhat did you like about your image?The first thing I like about this is the shading. I used colour to get these dark colours and faded them a bit to make it look

more realistic. I think the shading on the face makes it more realistic as it gives his face depth like his real face does. I also like his hair because although it looks blocky, the small slashes in his hair makes it look like real hair and makes the whole image look better. I also like the look of the lips because they look real and, with added shading, they are given more depth and shadows. To do this to my image I took an image from the internet of a celebrity and used the lasso tool to layer different parts of the person to colour overlay them. Some parts like the facial hair were hard to do with the lasso tool so I used Colour Range to layer different shades of the same colour to get little bits of the facial hair that I couldn’t get with the lasso tool. This really did help because it made the facial hair look more real and made it look like it would feel rough like facial hair does.

What would you improve if you did it again?For this image, I would make the black part of his hair lighter so you can see the lighter parts of the hair that make it

look more real. I would also add some more shade the the forehead and left side of his face to add more depth.

Rotoscope 2Natasha Romanoff, played by Scarlett Johansson, in Avengers

EvaluationWhat did you like about your image?What I do like about this image is the way the hair looks. I used the original hair to shape round the hair with

the lasso tool. I then coloured in that area a similar colour to her actual hair. I then used colour range to take parts of the original hair that was a different shade to the shape I made so I can get some texture for the hair to make it look more like hair. I also like the eyes as I think they stand out and make her look more real. To get the eyes, I used the lasso to go round the eye balls and coloured them in to a similar colour to the original eyes. I then used a shape tool to get the blacks circle of the eyes and duplicated the layer so the circles would be the same. For the eyelashes I used the lasso tool to create my own lashes based on her original ones. I think the lashes turned out really well as they look good and fit the eyes well. I lastly like the lips as I think they look real and go well with her face. To get the lips I used the lasso tool again to go round the outside of the lips and coloured the shape to a similar colour to her actual lips. I then made a darker oval in the middle of the shape to make it look like the inside of her mouth. I then did a rough outline of her teeth and made that shape a similar colour to her actual ones. Finally, I used colour range to add texture to the lips and make them look real. Overall I really like this rotoscope image and I can say I am quite proud of it.

What would you improve if you did it again?If I could improve something, I would make the background a bit better and add darker bits to her neck

and face to make her look more real and give her more depth.

Rotoscope 3Sebastian Stan

EvaluationWhat did you like about your image?This rotoscope isn’t one of my favorites, but I do like the eyes and also the hair. The hair on this

actor was harder than others as it is longer and it is swept up and round the top of the head, which made it harder for me to do the hair in simple way. With this in consideration, I think I did a good job of it. The eyes I like because they are bold and are looking straight at the audience which will grab their attention and feel more engaged with the image. I also like the eyebrows as the colour goes well with the face and they’re nice and bold and are easily seen by the audience.

What would you improve if you did it again?If I could do this again I would take more time with the main area of the face as don’t think

it looks god enough. I would also focus more on the shadowing to give him a more depth of field.

Rotoscope 4Tyler Oakley

EvaluationWhat did you like about your image?I really like this rotoscope as I think it looks like the original image but not too much that I

may need to do another one. I like how the hair looks, considering the mans hair is blue, which isn’t seen an awful lot. This makes the image looks different and create a more eye catching scene. I also like the suit as it looks smart but simple even as a rotoscope. For the glasses, I thought I wouldn’t do well with them, but I think I’ve done a good job of them. The lips also I thought I wasn’t going to do well on, but they look good in the image so I’m happy with them.

What would you improve if you did it again?If I could do this again I would not include the name of the person on the image as I think it makes the image

less eye catching as the audience would read the text first then look at the image. I want the full focus on the image. I would also change the background to make the person stand out more.

Text Based

Text Based

Evaluation

What did you like about your image?The first image I did was of my name made out of an image of a hobby I like. To do this I put my name in a big font bold font and chose the image I wanted. I then resized the image so it would fit the name fully. I then created a clipping mask so the image went to the shape of the font after rasterizing the layer. I really like how the letters are close together but are still readable. I also like how the image makes the word look as it has bright colours but you can still read the font.

The second image I put different shapes into the font by putting a shape on top of the rasterized font and using the magic wand to go around the shape. I then went onto the font layer and pressed backspace. The shape was now cut out of the font making the font look like it had a shape cut out of it. I really like this because I can choose images that I like and make them part of my name. I also like the gradient overlay of the font as it makes the font stand out and makes it more interesting. I like the shadow on the font as it makes it stand out from the white background and makes it easier to read.

What would you improve if you did it again?If I did the first font again I would choose a picture with different colours which would make the font brighter and bolder. I would also put a stroke on it to make the name even easier to read.For the second font I would choose different colours to make it more interesting and make it more personal to me.

Comic Book 1

Comic Book 2

Comic Book 3

EvaluationWhat did you like about your image?The first image I did was of the joker from The Dark Knight movie. For this image I like how the colours look together as I think they look good together and are interesting to look at. I also like how the shadows work in this image as they give the joker depth and makes him look more real. To get this image as it is, I duplicated the image to make two layers of the image above the background. I then went to layer 1 and went into filter gallery and chose the cutout filter. I changed the settings in cutout until I was happy with my image. I then clicked okay and went onto the copied image. When on the copied image I went to adjustments-threshold to get the darker shadows of the original image. Once done I went to blending mode and chose a blending option I liked.

The second image I did was of Bilbo Baggins and a few dwarfs from the first Hobbit film. I did the same movies as I did on the first image but just changed the filter settings, threshold and the blending so I got a different kind of image from the first. I like how the people are brighter than their darker background as it makes them stand out and gives the image more depth making It more real. I also like how there’s bits of darker colour on the people as it gives them depth and makes them more 3D.

For my third and last image, I chose to do two main characters from the second Captain America movie. I did the same as I did for the second image but again changed the bits I wanted to. I really like third image because the main image is mainly black and white which helped the final image look darker and more comic book like. I also like the people’s faces as you can see different shades to their face which gives them depth and makes it more realistic.

What would you improve if you did it again?If I could do these images again, I would make the first one less clearer to make the image look interesting and different. I would change the second image by toning down the white on the image a bit and make it darker to look more realistic. For my third and final image, I would make the image black and white to make it look more like a comic book and to make it different from the other images.

Photography

EvaluationWhat did you like about your image?For my first image, I like the angle the image was taken as it shows the car at an angle where you can see most of the car and it creates a good depth of field for the image. I also like how the car is the main focus of the image and it clearer than it’s background, this will grab the attention of people. The second picture I like the patterns in the image and the repetition of chairs and tables as it makes the image more interesting and eye-grabbing. I also like how the background is light but the foreground is dark as it gives the image a better contrast and makes it look better. For the third image I like different colours of the image because they make it more eye grabbing and make you want to look at the picture. I also like the slight blur on the image as it makes it seem busy and makes it more interesting.

What would you improve if you did it again?If I could do the first image again I would make sure the lighting it better and take a picture of a brighter coloured car to stand out from the dark background. For the second image I would get closer to the chairs and get an angled image just on the chairs and no on the complicated background. For my third image again I would make sure the image doesn’t have a blur on it to make it a better quality.

Illustration

EvaluationWhat did you like about your image?I like the shading on the drawing because it gives it depth and gives a sense of where the light is coming through. This makes it look more natural and seem more realistic, bringing it to life. I also like the shadow because that also gives a sense of where the light is and a rough idea of how big the thing the drawing is of is.

What would you improve if you did it again?If I could dot his again I would draw a more complicated image that uses more shading and more difficult shaping to test my ability and see how well I can cope with harder drawings.

Initial Ideas

Mood board of inspiration- RapunzelCharacters

This mood board shows the characters I want to include in my story. For my story I chose Rapunzel, so I found pictures of people that relate to Rapunzel. This made me find images of different evil stepmothers to see how different people have shown her in different stories. I also searched an image of a horse so I could get a good idea of what I want the horse to look like.

Mood Board- Text

I choose these fonts because I thought they would all look good as either the title of the book or as the font inside book. I chose the first font because it was simple but a little different which I liked. You can still read the word and I think it would look good the book Title on the front page. I picked the second because I thought it was simple enough to put as the main font in the book. I like the third one because it’s simple enough for the text inside the book but could also be used for the title of the book as it’s easy to read. The third font is more interesting to me and is more likely to be used as the title of the book as it’s readable but not as readable as the others. I chose the fourth font because it’s simple and easy to read. But because of the gaps between the letters, I might use this font for the book title. The last font I like because it’s simple but yet different from the others making it stand out. I might use this font for the title of the book as I think it’s too different and not simple enough.

Idea Generation

Main Story Idea Generation

Mood board of chosen idea

These are the main parts of my mood board that I will be putting into my story. I really liked these images and fonts so I chose them to be part of the book.

Proposal

DimensionsThe book will be made up of 8-10 pages, with the pages size being; 13.2 x 2.3 x 16.1

Story OverviewRapunzel is am orphan with only her evil step-mother as family. Rapunzel has been locked in a tower all her life with her only interaction with the outside world is her step-mother. One day her step-mother comes back to the tower and accuses Rapunzel of lying to her about seeing a certain prince. Rapunzel denies lying but her stepmother casts a spell on the tower so she can’t leave. After her step-mother has left she realizes she hasn’t lied and that the spell will not work on her. So, when her step-mother comes back, she tricks her into the tower and uses her long hair to slide down the tower and onto her step-mothers horse. Her step-mother is now trapped and Rapunzel can go find her prince, to live happily ever after with.

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Deadline

20th March 2015

Audience

My target audience are children aged 5-11. I chose this target audience because younger children can have it read to them by their parents and when they get older will be able to read it themselves. I also think if I targeted any lower on the age, then the children won’t understand the story as well. The gender would be female as I think young female children love stories of princesses and them getting a happy ending. I don’t think this book would appeal to male children as I decided not to put the prince in it much and boys will want to see the prince more and not the princess. Location would be English speaking countries like Great Britain and USA because they would be able to read it as it will be in English, other countries might not be able to read English so it would be best to aim for English speaking countries.

Production Methods

To make the Illustrations on my page, I will use rotoscoping to get good images of my characters and draw a few parts to make the Illustrations look realistic. I did think of doing it all in drawing but I can’t draw very detailed pictures so I chose to Rotoscope as it’s easy for me and will get me some good quality Illustrations. I will also be using simple but bold fonts so children to easily read the book and understand what the Illustrations are saying.

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

Some of the strengths of the proposal are there is a clear idea of the story as well as who is going to be in it

There is a clear plan of how the pictures will be crated

There is a clear idea of who the story will be aimed at

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

Very clearly shows the themes in the story

Mind map is very easy to understand and have a clear and simple layout

The mood bored could do with a few more images as will as info and wider range of pictures

Limited info on the mind map

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

There is a clear story base which is well thought out and with a lot of ideas

Clearly labelled target audience and who you’re aiming the book at

Explain why you chose these dimensions for this children’s book.

Talk about which social class that you aim your book for and why do chose this social class

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

Well detailed ideas why took many ideas and thoughts into thought

Well worked out story with ideas around that

One idea that could have been developed further is how there are lots of styles of page layouts and why you choose this certain one

Another idea that you could develop is why you choose this type of font and this amount of lines per page

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

Plenty of in depth information which really engrossed me and had me hooked from the word go.

Plot twist, how does Rapunzel slide down the tower on her own hair, that’s just physically impossible. Unless you are leaving out the fact that she’s actually a wizard and that’s why she was able to use magic. But in that case why did she have to slide down the tower on her hair, surely then she must have been able to fly away on a magic carpet or broom of some kind. Sort it out.

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

You used plenty of text to sum up why you would want to see these kinds of things within your story.

Mood board could have had some more in depth analogy to really keep the reader (of the mind map) wanting more. I would have liked to see more pictures based around the setting of the place it is supposed to be set. At this moment in time I don’t have a good image of where it is set, it could be set in a bungalow for all I know.

Feedback Summary

Sum up your feedback.All of my feedback says that the story is in good detail and that I know what my target audience. But it also says I need to add more to my mood boards and talk about the fonts more.

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

The third person pointed out that they wanted to see a mood board of the scenery ideas which I thought about doing but didn’t do for some reason. I agree with them that I should have done one to make picturing the setting easier.Most of the feedback said I had a good detailed story which I agree with because I thought about the story for while and thought about my final story a lot to see if it was suitable to be made into a story.

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

My third feedback said that it’s impossible for Rapunzel to slide down her own hair. I disagree with this as in the movie, Tangled, it shows she can slide down her hair is she wraps it round something above first to help support the hair.I also disagree that there is limited info on my mind maps as I think I explained my ideas in good detail on the mind maps very simply and that I don’t need to write a lot to get my point across.

Storyboards

Original Script- Rapunzel

There were once a man and a woman who had long in vain wished for a child. At length the woman hoped that God was about to grant her desire. These people had a little window at the back of their house from which a splendid garden could be seen, which was full of the most beautiful flowers and herbs. It was, however, surrounded by a high wall, and no one dared to go into it because it belonged to an enchantress, who had great power and was dreaded by all the world. One day the woman was standing by this window and looking down into the garden, when she saw a bed which was planted with the most beautiful rampion (rapunzel), and it looked so fresh and green that she longed for it, and had the greatest desire to eat some. This desire increased every day, and as she knew that she could not get any of it, she quite pined away, and looked pale and miserable. Then her husband was alarmed, and asked, "What aileth thee, dear wife?" "Ah," she replied, "if I can't get some of the rampion, which is in the garden behind our house, to eat, I shall die." The man, who loved her, thought, "Sooner than let thy wife die, bring her some of the rampion thyself, let it cost thee what it will." In the twilight of evening, he clambered down over the wall into the garden of the enchantress, hastily clutched a handful of rampion, and took it to his wife. She at once made herself a salad of it, and ate it with much relish. She, however, liked it so much so very much, that the next day she longed for it three times as much as before. If he was to have any rest, her husband must once more descend into the garden. In the gloom of evening, therefore, he let himself down again; but when he had clambered down the wall he was terribly afraid, for he saw the enchantress standing before him. "How canst thou dare," said she with angry look, "to descend into my garden and steal my rampion like a thief? Thou shalt suffer for it!" "Ah," answered he, "let mercy take the place of justice, I only made up my mind to do it out of necessity

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Original Script

My wife saw your rampion from the window, and felt such a longing for it that she would have died if she had not got some to eat." Then the enchantress allowed her anger to be softened, and said to him, "If the case be as thou sayest, I will allow thee to take away with thee as much rampion as thou wilt, only I make one condition, thou must give me the child which thy wife will bring into the world; it shall be well treated, and I will care for it like a mother." The man in his terror consented to everything, and when the woman was brought to bed, the enchantress appeared at once, gave the child the name of Rapunzel, and took it away with her.

Rapunzel grew into the most beautiful child beneath the sun. When she was twelve years old, the enchantress shut her into a tower, which lay in a forest, and had neither stairs nor door, but quite at the top was a little window. When the enchantress wanted to go in, she placed herself beneath this, and cried,

"Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let down thy hair to me."

Rapunzel had magnificent long hair, fine as spun gold, and when she heard the voice of the enchantress she unfastened her braided tresses, wound them round one of the hooks of the window above, and then the hair fell twenty ells down, and the enchantress climbed up by it.

After a year or two, it came to pass that the King's son rode through the forest and went by the tower. Then he heard a song, which was so charming that he stood still and listened. This was Rapunzel, who in her solitude passed her time in letting her sweet voice resound. The King's son wanted to climb up to her, and looked for the door of the tower, but none was to be found. He rode home, but the singing had so deeply touched his heart, that every day he went out into the forest and listened to it. Once when he was thus standing behind a tree, he saw that an enchantress came there, and he heard how she cried,

"Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let down thy hair."

Then Rapunzel let down the braids of her hair, and the enchantress climbed up to her. "If that is the ladder by which one mounts, I will for once try my fortune," said he, and the next day when it began to grow dark, he went to the tower and cried,

"Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let down thy hair."

Immediately the hair fell down and the King's son climbed up.

At first Rapunzel was terribly frightened when a man such as her eyes had never yet beheld, came to her; but the King's son began to talk to her quite like a friend, and told her that his heart had been so stirred that it had let him have no rest, and he had been forced to see her. Then Rapunzel lost her fear, and when he asked her if she would take him for her husband, and she saw that he was young and handsome, she thought, "He will love me more than old Dame Gothel does;" and she said yes, and laid her hand in his. She said, "I will willingly go away with thee, but I do not know how to get down. Bring with thee a skein of silk every time that thou comest, and I will weave a ladder with it, and when that is ready I will descend, and thou wilt take me on thy horse." They agreed that until that time he should come to her every evening, for the old woman came by day. The enchantress remarked nothing of this, until once Rapunzel said to her, "Tell me, Dame Gothel, how it happens that you are so much heavier for me to draw up than the young King's son he is with me in a moment." "Ah! thou wicked child," cried the enchantress, "What do I hear thee say! I thought I had separated thee from all the world, and yet thou hast deceived me!" In her anger she clutched Rapunzel's beautiful tresses, wrapped them twice round her left hand, seized a pair of scissors with the right, and snip, snap, they were cut off, and the lovely braids lay on the ground. And she was so pitiless that she took poor Rapunzel into a desert where she had to live in great grief and misery.

On the same day, however, that she cast out Rapunzel, the enchantress in the evening fastened the braids of hair which she had cut off to the hook of the window, and when the King's son came and cried,

"Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let down thy hair,"

She let the hair down. The King's son ascended, but he did not find his dearest Rapunzel above, but the enchantress, who gazed at him with wicked and venomous looks. "Aha!" she cried mockingly, "Thou wouldst fetch thy dearest, but the beautiful bird sits no longer singing in the nest; the cat has got it, and will scratch out thy eyes as well. Rapunzel is lost to thee; thou wilt never see her more." The King's son was beside himself with pain, and in his despair he leapt down from the tower. He escaped with his life, but the thorns into which he fell, pierced his eyes. Then he wandered quite blind about the forest, ate nothing but roots and berries, and did nothing but lament and weep over the loss of his dearest wife. Thus he roamed about in misery for some years, and at length came to the desert where Rapunzel, with the twins to which she had given birth, a boy and a girl, lived in wretchedness. He heard a voice, and it seemed so familiar to him that he went towards it, and when he approached, Rapunzel knew him and fell on his neck and wept. Two of her tears wetted his eyes and they grew clear again, and he could see with them as before. He led her to his kingdom where he was joyfully received, and they lived for a long time afterwards, happy and contented.

Final ScriptRapunzel-My Story Page 1: In a land far far away, A King and a Queen have a baby named Rapunzel. The King must give Rapunzel to a witch in exchange for medicine for the Queen.

Page 2: Years later, Rapunzel has been living in a tower with no doors or stairs, just a window. The witch uses Rapunzel’s hair to climb up the tower.

Page 3: Noticing horse tracks that weren’t hers, the witch asks Rapunzel if there has been a boy there. Rapunzel says no. Page 4: The witch thinks Rapunzel is lying so climbs back down Rapunzel’s hair and casts a spell on the tower to never release its prisoner with a lying heart.

Page 5: Rapunzel knows she didn’t lie, and realised the spell won’t work on her. So she thinks up a plan.

Page 6: The next day when the witch returns to the tower, Rapunzel tricks the witch into thinking there is someone trying to attack her. The witch rushes in.

Page 7: Once inside, she sees no one but Rapunzel. “What is the meaning of this?’ She asks Rapunzel, who slowly makes her way to the window.

Page 8: “ I didn’t lie to you, but you have lied to me many times.” Rapunzel said before she wrapped her hair around a bar above the window. Rapunzel slides down her hair to drop onto the witch’s horse.

Page 9: “Rapunzel, get back here!” The witch screamed as she tried to go to the window, but she couldn’t get past the spell! She was trapped! “What is this?” The witch screamed!

Page 10: “Your spell” Rapunzel answered. “It won’t release anyone with a lying heart. I didn’t lie, but you have!” Rapunzel said gathering her hair. “This cannot be!” The witch screamed trying to find a way out, but there was no way out.

Page 11: “Have fun in there” Rapunzel shouted before kicking the horse into a sprint. The witch called for Rapunzel, but she kept on going until she reached a kingdom where her beloved was waiting for her.

Page 12: And they lived happily ever after, THE END.

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