This document provides planning details for a digital graphic narrative project. It includes considerations for costs, available resources, production quantity, target audience, quality factors, regulations, copyright, ethics, and a production schedule. Health and safety risks like eye strain and back strain are addressed, along with how to prevent them by adhering to relevant legislation like taking regular breaks and lifting with the knees.

1. 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:
There is nothing that I need to purchase for the production of my book. As a result, I will not have to spend a
single penny.
Available resources:
The resources I have include: a mac to work on, Photoshop to create and edit the pages of the book, a mouse
and keyboard to select things and to type the text of my book or access shortcuts to features on Photoshop,
and images on the internet of animals/ objects in my book that I can use as inspiration when designing my
book.

2. Quantity:
I would expect around 100-200 copies of my book are made/ sold. I think this because it is an obscure
Japanese folk tale which no one is likely to have heard of. However, despite being a Japanese folk tale, it has
almost no influences from Japanese culture so it should be able to resonate with any audience.
Audience and Target Market:
My target audience is around 3-6 year olds. I’m not aiming for any specific class or gender; it is a book about
animals which any child could enjoy so it wouldn’t make sense to limit the audience arbitrarily. The book could
be more successful with higher class families as lower class families might prefer a more popular story that
they know instead of something that they know nothing about.
Quality Factors:
To ensure that I maintain a high-quality factor I will make sure to be punctual so that I have as much time to
work on the book as possible. If I miss a day due to illness, I will make sure to make the time up in my time so
that the work gets done.
Codes of Practice:
I will ensure that I complete work in the allotted time to meet my end of the deal with a publisher and follow the
other regulations of the codes of practice where applicable.

3. Regulation:
My book will follow the regulations of other children’s media in the UK by featuring child friendly content. My
book will not be a pop-up book or have any removable parts which would force me to follow children’s toys
regulations.
Copyright:
I will not infringe other people’s copyright in my book. This can be guaranteed by creating my own assets and
making them different to the images I used as inspiration to my work.
Ethical Issues:
There will be no ethical issues while making my book because even though my story is from a Japanese folk
tale, it features only animals so there will not be any concerns of portraying people in an inoffensive way.

4. 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?
MAC’s yes
Photoshop yes
Mouse and keyboard yes
Images to use as inspiration no
I need to search for appropriate images to base to inspire my
designs.

5. 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:
Search for images of similar locations to my backgrounds so that I can use the as inspiration. Also,
search for textures to use in the background to add more detail to them. Start making the backgrounds
after this.
Session 2:
Start or continue working on the backgrounds of the pages depending on how fast I work. There are 8
separate locations in the book so if I get those done first, all I have to worry about is drawing the
characters and putting the text in.
The first location in my book I will make is the sunset at the start of the book. I will use the images I
have found to model what I want it to look like and then work from there, rotoscoping or using the comic
book effect. I also plan on doing the scene where the crab tries to climb the tree, this should not take as
long as the sunset scene because it is a lot simpler and doesn’t need to be as heavily rotoscoped as
elements in the first image.
Session 3:
I plan on making the forest scene in this session, this scene requires a lot of rotoscoping and texturing
to get it how I want it but it is also one of the few scenes in my book that is used more than once. This
means all I have to do is change some positioning of objects and text and I will have two almost
complete pages. I also plan on doing the background for the scene where the monkey throws unripe fruit

6. at the crab, this is another scene that is used twice which puts me over halfway done for the
backgrounds if I follow the schedule.
Session 4:
In this session, I plan on making the scene where the monkey spies on the crabs, which I think might
take me the most time out of any scene. If I follow the schedule, then this should not put me in a bad
position for time as I am already halfway through the backgrounds on only session four. If I get the
spying scene done, I plan on working on the scene with the monkey looking at the feast, this will be an
annoying scene to make due to the angle of the shot I want to make, but it should not take too long to
make.
Session 5:
In this session, I plan on making the crab’s house interior and the scene where the monkey cowers on
the floor. The latter will not take very long as the background is just a sand floor. The house interior
should also be easy to make as it is not too complex. By the end of this session, all of the backgrounds
will be completed.
Session 6:
In this session, I will start making the poses for both the crab and his son as they have very few in the
entire book. This should not take me more than a session to do properly and I plan on putting the into
the backgrounds when they are don this session.
Session 7:
I will start working on the monkey’s poses in this session. I will work on the main pose of the monkey,
where he looks like he is sitting, because it will probably be the easiest to make and it will allow me to
have most of the pages in a near complete stage.
Session 8:

7. In this session, I will work on the monkey’s other poses. This shouldn’t be too hard as I will use the
same head on each of the ones that face the camera, eliminating the hardest part to make for them. I
will then insert them into the pages so that they are all almost finished.
Session 9:
Make assets like the unripe fruit on pages four and five as well as put the text on each page. I will also
adjust the text to look appropriate and readable on each page while also fitting in the space I have
allocated for it.
Session 10:
This session is contingency time to finish anything that I haven’t been able to do in the planned
timeframe. I will also use this time to add any necessary finishing touches on my work if needed and to
make sure the spelling and grammar of the text is correct.
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?

8. Strained eyes from staring at a screen for too long. The
Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment)
Regulations 1992 protects me from doing this.
Taking regular breaks. The act recommends taking a
five-minute break every 30 minutes but I will be taking 10-
20 minutes for every hour and 10 minutes, not including
my lunch break.
Getting electrocuted by faulty wiring or tripping on a wire.
The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 protects me from
this.
Have all of the wires out of the way and sorted sensibly so
that there is no risk of coming into contact with them.
Getting neck strain from having to look up or down for a
prolonged period of time. The Workplace (Health, Safety
and Welfare) Regulations 1992 protect me from this.
Use chairs that have adjustable heights and use monitors
that can be adjusted so that it is comfortable to use at all
times.
Getting hand strain/ carpel tunnel. The Health and Safety at
Work Act 1974 protects me from this. Take regular breaks and do wrist exercises.
Straining my back from carrying a heavy object. The
Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 protects me from this.
Always lift properly with my knees and ask for assistance
if something is too heavy for one person.