This is the research i done for my Greek mythology graphic novel

1. Research
Cameron Duncan

2. Existing Product
The image is bright but
has a dark picture in the
middle to give it an
effect.
The title is just plain
black because it is quite
a boring cover.
The image is a Bat
because it is about
Batman and it is when
Bruce Wayne first
became Batman.
The background looks
like it has been smashed
like glass because it
looks like the bat has
smashed through a
window.
The bats face is dark
that means that the
light is coming from
above and the shadow
of its wings are covering
its face.

3. Existing Product
The image is hand
drawn but it has been
recolored on a
computer.
The lighting is
coming from below
Poseidon because
he is opening the
ground so the lava
underneath can be
seen
The minotaur and Cyclops in
the background look as if
they are Poseidon's body
guards.
The title bold and
colour full and it looks
like it is fading away
at the bottom of the
writing.The scene is
water seeing as
Poseidon is the
god of the sea.

4. Existing Product
The image has been hand
drawn and then has been
coloured on the computer
to show proper lighting
and dark difference.
The lighting is coming
from ahead of them
seeing as the sun is
reflecting off their
faces and the front of
their torsos.
The title is very distinct
from the rest of the
cover so people would
see it and would want to
buy it because of the
title.
There is a few places
where it is brightly
coloured like the guy
who is on fire and the
background, that makes
sure that every character
is showing and can be
seen even at the front
when it is dark.
All the costumes
are different
because they have
either different
powers or they are
another race and
they only have on
type of suit.

5. Existing Product
This is a computer
generated picture, but I
would have been hand
drawn before hand.
You can see the light
of the sun reflecting
off the arm of the guy
and off of the chariot
this shows that the
sun is either setting
or rising.
The Props are the
Chariot and the
trees in the
background.
The Scene is either in a
forest or a garden seeing
as there are trees in the
background and they are
not trees from a jungle.
The costumes are
like a gods clothes
because he is a god
but he is also a
human (Demigod)
The title is bold
and brightly
coloured and it
is all in Capital
Letters.
It is 95% of images and
5% writing, this is
showing that images are
more important than the
writing.
The audience
might want to
buy it because
it is bold and
bright.

6. Research Analysis
• What common features do the researched
products have?
– Bright pictures, Bold Titles and they all have their
own characters on the covers.
• What aspects of the research will you include
within your own work?
• I will include some of the characters on the first 2
covers.

7. Questionnaire Analysis
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/
332HZC2

8. Audience research
• Observation: This shows that more people like Athena, Goddess of
Wisdom over any other God/Goddess but some people like Ares,
God of war.
• What this says about my audience: That people like to think about
what they read and see.
• How will your product appeal to this audience: The product will
appeal to the audience only if I add some wisdom and war into my
book.

9. Audience research
• Observation: This shows that more males took the survey than females.
• What this says about my audience: 66% of my feedback were from
males, this shows that males are more dominant than females when it
comes to Graphic novels/Comic books.
• How will your product appeal to this audience: I would need to put
colours and language that males could understand but some that
females could understand.

10. Audience research
• Observation: This shows that more people that like comic books are
younger.
• What this says about my audience: 66% of my audience are of the of 16-
20 and the other 33% is 51 +.
• How will your product appeal to this audience: I would need to put in
language that the younger generation could understand but also some
language that older people could understand.

11. Audience research
• Observation: This shows that people are interested in numerous
Greek Mythical Creatures.
• What this says about my audience: My audience likes Minotaur’s
Nymph’s and Fury’s. They are all at 33%.
• How will your product appeal to this audience: This shows that they
would like to mostly see only 3/13 creatures in the book.

12. Audience research
• Observation: This shows that no one in my selected audience likes
either Comic books or Graphic novels.
• What this says about my audience: In my interviews I will pick
people that will suit my survey.
• How will your product appeal to this audience: This wouldn’t appeal
to my selected audience but I will to my interviewed audience.

13. Audience research
• Observation: This shows that people like different kinds of
genres.
• What this says about my audience: They all like Romance,
Adventure and War Books/Movies. They are all 33%.
• How will your product appeal to this audience: I will put in
a bit of Romance, Adventure and War in my Book.

14. Audience research
• Observation: This shows that people what different
amounts of strips in a comic.
• What this says about my audience: It says that I would
need to pick a number between all the results.
• How will your product appeal to this audience:

15. Audience research
• Observation: This shows that more people want more speech than
others in a comic book.
• What this says about my audience: This shows that people want to
have more speech in a comic book.
• How will your product appeal to this audience: I will do some but
not a lot of speech.

16. Audience research
• Observation: People want to have different amount of characters in
the comic book.
• What this says about my audience: This says that the audience
wants more than one character.
• How will your product appeal to this audience: I will put more than
6 characters in the comic book for more intensity.

17. Interviews

18. Interview 1
• Do you like comic books and or Graphic novels, Why?
• I do like Comics because, I like to read them and I like them sort of Comics.
• Do you like Greek Myths and legends, Which ones?
• Yes, I like Minotaur's and Saytr’s.
• Who is your favourite Greek god, Why?
• My favourite Greek God is Ares because, I like to watch wars and I like to play war
games.
• What is your favourite Greek Myth, Why?
• My favourite Greek Myth is when Perseus killed medusa because, the way he uses
his shield to turn her to stone.
• What is your favourite Greek Mythical Creature, Why?
• My favourite Mythical Creature is a Minotaur because, I like bulls and I like the way
the half bull, half human looks.

19. Interview 1
• Observation:
• What this says about my audience:
• How will your product appeal to this
audience:

20. Interview 2
• Do you like comic books and or Graphic novels, Why?
• I like graphic novels because, they are bigger than Comics and
I like to read a lot.
• Do you like Greek Myths and legends, Why?
• Who is your favourite Greek god, Why?
• What is your favourite Greek Myth, Why?
• What is your favourite Greek Mythical Creature, Why?

21. Interview 2
• Observation:
• What this says about my audience:
• How will your product appeal to this
audience:

22. Audience Profile
Category Demographic Content to appeal to this audience
Age Range
16-20 • Add War and Knowledge to my Graphic
Novel.
Gender
Male • Add Adventure and war to my graphic novel.
Psychographic
War, Romance,
Adventure,
Wisdom
• I will put all of these components into my
graphic novel.
Social Status
Young People • I will put in mature but a bit of slang.
• I will put some mature pictures in it (war
scenes, Blood and gor)

23. Research Evaluation

24. Research Evaluation
• Give an overview of how you conducted your research.
Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each method
– Product Research
• I had a bit of trouble with the product research because I didn’t have that much
information on what I had to do and there wasn’t that much detail on the covers.
– Questionnaires
– Interviews

25. Research Evaluation
– What sort of a response did you get?
– How did you distribute your survey? Give an advantage and a disadvantage