The document summarizes different techniques for creating graphic narratives including comic book effects in Photoshop, illustrations, digital photography, and rotoscopework. It evaluates each technique in terms of quality, time requirements, suitability for target audiences, and necessary resources. While the author feels illustration skills need improvement, comic book effects and digital photography could work well within time constraints and produce quality suitable for a graphic novel for children under 12 years old. Rotoscopework is deemed too complex and time-consuming.

1. Graphic Narrative
Evidence Template
Jake Sellers
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2. Comic book Effect
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3. Comic book Effect
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4. Comic book Effect
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5. Evaluation
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The finished quality of the work is not as high as I would have liked it to be. Although
it is a quick job on Photoshop, it also take a lot of work before Photoshop, such as
taking the actual photos.
Although the quality is acceptable, it is not amazing. The edges are fairly rough,
even when you change the edge smoothness. It also makes certain parts of the
image hard to see. This can be seen in the third image on the badge, which I had to
rotoscope due to the fact when I used the filter effects it made the badge just fade in
to a solid circle of orange.
The resources required include a camera, which some people may not have, and
Photoshop, which many people cannot access easily, meaning this technique is
fairly specialist.
The technique is similar to other graphic novels which have been published, but not
to children’s novels. This means that if a child is used to reading graphic novels it
will appeal to the target audience of children up to the age of 12, but if they are used
to children's novels, then this effect will not be suitable for the target audience.

6. Illustration
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7. Evaluation
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I believe the quality of the illustration is very much dependant on the person who is
drawing. This means that the quality varies. In my case, it is a very low quality due
to the fact that I cannot draw very well, but if a professional did it, it would look a lot
better then mine does.
Drawing each individual frame for a graphic novel is also very time consuming,
meaning that it will take a very long time to make each frame to a good standard.
This method is used in both graphic novels and children's novels due to the fact it
can either be incredibly simple, or very complex.
It suits the target audience because the style can be very varied meaning it can be
suited to children as well as older people.
The resources required are also very simple, they are as simple as paper and pens.

8. Digital Photography
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9. Evaluation
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The quality of the image is usually very good if the camera is modern and good
quality which makes it easy to make high quality photographs.
It is usually a fairly quick process, but can take a while to get a perfect photograph.
The style is often used for children's novels instead of graphic novels due to the fact
that the image can be used to fill a large space such as a hole page in a children's
novel. It can also be used for a large range of age ranges, due to the fact
photographs can be used to take simple still images of literally anything which is
visible, so any photo can be taken to match which ever age it needs to suit.
The resources require a digital camera, or even a mobile phone camera, meaning
that many people will be able to take a photograph. It also requires a computer to
upload the photo to.

10. Rotoscopework
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11. Evaluation
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The quality of rotoscoping is very high but is very time consuming. It can make a
very unique and realistic comic book style photograph. It does take a long time to do
and can be fairly hard.
This would usually be used in graphic novels as well as children’s novels due to its
cartoon like style, it can look childish, or complex.
Its audience can be both young or old, but it can be very useful for the age range we
are working with which is under 12 due to the simplicity of it.
The resources required are fairly specialist due to the fact that Photoshop is needed
to do this technique.

12. Overall Evaluation
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I feel that the experiment went fairly well, and I have decided that I might use Comic
Book Styled images in my graphic novel. I feel that illustration would not be a good
idea due to the fact that I am not very good at drawing which means my graphic
novel would not be done to the standard I would want it to be done, so I will
definitely not be using this.
I feel if I practised illustration a bit more I could improve the quality of them. I could
watch tutorials on how to draw to improve the quality of my drawing, and practise a
lot more to improve on the technique.
I also feel that rotoscoping would be too complicated for a graphic novel due to the
fact it takes a very long time to do, and I would have to do an awful lot of it to get
through around 40 slides. I think that I would not be able to do this amount of work
in the short space of time, and even if I could, it would not be as high a quality as I
would like it to be. Therefore I will not be using this.