finished graphic narrative evaluation

1. Graphic Narrative
Evaluation

2. Use this template to help you evaluate your project.
You should give specific details about your work.
You should provide both written and visual examples to explain your project.
You should find areas to praise in your work. Be specific about why you think they are
good or why you are proud of them.
You should also find areas that could be improved. Look for areas that you could make
better if you went back to them. Be specific about what you would improve.
Add additional slides as you need to. Don’t be restricted by what is here.
Any blank slides should be deleted before submission.

3. Does your final product reflect your
original intentions?
• My final product reflects my original intentions in a lot
of ways for e.g. I planned on creating a style of images
that were very basic and I believe that I have
completed that with my rotoscoping technique this
means that there was very little detail so that the
young audience I was aiming for could easily see and
understand the images. (example on next page). In
some ways my final product does not reflect my
original intentions for example I had originally intended
to make all the words in my book rhyme but this
ended up being to difficult and I had to scrap the idea
as it was making me get behind with the rest of my
work.

5. How well have you constructed your
images?
• I purposely made my images very basic this
was because I had targeted my book at ages
between 4-6 who will have only just learned
to read and was trying to keep everything as
basic as possible to help them understand it. I
did add some detail within the picture for
example I slightly used the colour range tool
to show some fur on the wolf but apart from
that I wanted to keep everything as basic as
possible

7. How well have you used text to anchor
your images
• My text in some slides helped anchor my images
for e.g. I gave the words he blew the house down
a slide by themselves allowing for a slide to show
exactly what was happening with ought writing to
much and not being able to show everything that
was written on that one slide. On other sides I
have written more than that one slide is able to
show for example in one page I have written that
wolf screamed and so the pigs ran out side but I
have t shown that in the slide itself.

8. The two pages have very different types of writing with one having lots of writing which I
was unable to show the whole of through the picture and the other having little writing
making it easy to show just what was happening with the text being there only to support
the image.

9. Is your product suitable for your
audience?
• In my proposal I have put that my target audience are males
between the age of 4-6 this lead me to make my images very basic
and easy to see and understand for smaller children. Also I used the
font style sans this is easier for the smaller children who have only
just learned to read to be able to read the words. My text size
changes throughout the book this would not be good for children as
it may confuse them and make them find it harder to read.
• My audience of 4-6 meant that everything I did I did to help with
the smaller children being able to read and understand the book for
e.g. the types of used words were small and easy to understand. I
changed the ending to the story to make it more suitable for the
younger audience I was marketing I changed the wolfs death to the
wolf having his tail on fire and running away.

11. What do you like/dislike about the
techniques you have used?
• I like the rotoscoping technique that I used as
it made the shapes and animals very basic so
it will be easy for children to see and
understand it. I also like the gradient overlay
that I used for the background of some of my
images as it is better for showing the colour of
the sky than just the solid colour overlay. I also
liked the rain effect that I used I did this by
using the paint tool with the Gaussian blur
filter.

13. What do you like/dislike about how
your final product looks?
• I like how basic my images look I did this by
using the rotoscope technique this will help
children to understand the images that they
are seeing. I do not like the inconsistencies in
my work for e.g. the font size continues to
change through ought the book. Also the
character sizes change through ought the
book creating more confusing inconsistencies
that I wish I would have changed.

15. Why did you include the content you
used?
• I decided use rotoscoping to make my images look basic so
they were easier to understand for the younger audiences.
I also made the wolfs body more jagged as the pigs as this
made the wolf seem more like the villain and dangerous. I
used the sans font to help my younger audience be able to
read the book easier. I used the Gaussian blur effect to
show rain and I believe I did this quite. Also I used the cut
out effect for some objects that would have been
impossible to rotoscope and still get the detail that was
needed to show what it was. I also like the gradient overlay
technique that I have used as it really helped to create the
right colours for the sky. I decided to keep my colours bright
in relation to this being a children's book.

17. What signs, symbols or codes have
your used in your work?
Because the pigs are piglets (child pigs) it connects with the
child audience as they themselves are children.
Wolf jagged sharp danger older evil picking on someone
smaller than him I also made the wolf more jagged than the
pigs this was a sign that the wolf was evil and dangerous
I used rain to show how hard it was for the last pig to carry on
and how hard he was finding it I did this by using the
Gaussian blur tool.
Also the fact that the mother is the distributor is used as a
scare tactic as a mother is usually a simple of something
warm and loving and as she is the one telling the pigs to
leave may be scary for the children.

19. What representations can be found in
your work?
• All of my characters (apart from the distributor) are
male I did this with ought really knowing I just
imagined that they were most likely because in most
fairy tales it is the men that go adventuring and the
women that need saving even in littered riding hood
where the main character is a girl a man (woodcutter)
has to save her.
• The fact that the piglets are so young it could represent
the small children that are reading the book allowing
them to connect with the book more even if they don’t
realise it this happens with a lot of representations
they are there but you only subconsciously realise
them.

21. What style have you employed in your
products?
• I took a lot of influence from Father Christmas on
the Naughty Step book for example the font size
• I copied the exact size of the book from father
Christmas on the naughty step as I liked the
shape and how much you could fit on one page.
• I used rotoscoping because I wanted a basic style
of work

23. What were the strengths and weaknesses
of the pre-production and planning
• The planning and research helped by giving me a timetable
for what to work on on which days this helped by keeping
me on time and stopped me from getting behind on my
work
• I think I managed my time quite well even though there
were a few hiccups
• During the designing of the book I decided on 12 pages but
when creating the book it became obvious that this was not
going to be enough as I could not show everything in the
images that was in the text. This led me to change my prior
amount of pages from 12 to 14 which allowed me to quite
comfortably show everything I wanted to

25. Historical and cultural context
• my book is similar to a lot of other examples of
the three little pigs as it follows the basic tale of
the story, although I did change a few things for
e.g. I changed the ending slightly so that instead
of the wolf being killed it simply gets its tail burnt
and runs away this was to make it more child
friendly. I looked at The Three Little Pigs
(Fairytale Boards) book written in 2014 and took
a lot of ideas for the graphics of my book from
that. I also looked at the story of the three little
pigs What other similar products have existed in
the past? What current products exist?