The document provides details about a student's digital graphic narrative development project. It discusses various tasks the student completed, including creating images using shapes, rotoscoping, film quotes, and text-based designs. For each task, the student evaluates what they liked about their image and how they could improve if doing the task again. They provide specifics on techniques used and aspects they felt were effective or could be enhanced. The document shows the reflective process undertaken to develop the student's digital graphic skills and understanding of different design approaches.

1. Digital Graphic Narrative
Development
Demi Broadhead

2. Shape Task

3. Shape Task

4. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
I liked that my image included colours that were almost identical to the ones in which were
included on the original image. This helped my image to create a realistic feel and make the
shapes represent the animal more. In addition, I like that the shapes I have included in my
Image aren’t just standard shapes; the use of the warp tool helped me to change the shape of
some of my shapes to make them look more similar to the shape of the animals body parts.
The use of texture on my panda shape task is effective; it helps the ears to look like they have
fur on them rather than just using a solid colour. This use of texture can also be seen in my
second shape task of a Chihuahua on its paws; this shows the fur on them and makes the
animal have more realistic features apposed to just flat colour.
What would you improve if you did it again?
If I were to recreate my image I would choose a more difficult animal such as an insect;
particular these animals have a lot more body parts and details. Insects are also small meaning
that their would be a lot of intricate detail which would need to be carried out meaning it
would be more of a challenge to create. Additionally, I would add some more texture to certain
parts of the animals body to give it a more realistic feel and to add some more depth to the
image so It didn’t look as flat.

5. Rotoscope

6. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
In my rotoscope I particular like the amount of detail in which I included into the face a and
hair; I feel that by adding extra amounts of detail in different colours it has helped to sculpt
the image more. I feel like my image portrays the chosen celebrity of Matt Healy well; the
choice of colours is almost exact to the ones used In the original image. This use of colour
helps to give the image a more realistic feel; the colour overlay tool was helpful when making
this image as I could use the colour choosing tool to pick a colour from the original image and
it would match it up as best as possible. I was then able to amend this and change the tone
of the colour to make it slightly more light or dark until I felt it displayed the original image
better.
What would you improve if you did it again?
If I was to recreate a rotoscope then I would spend some more time on the facial features
especially the mouth and eyes; I feel like the shape of these features aren't’t very accurate. In
addition, I would add some texture to my image to make the image appear more realistic;
the use of more detail on the skin and hair would allow my image to have more depth and
not appear as flat to the page. The jacket and shirt of my rotoscope also lacks detail and
depth; it appears to look flat and it’s just one block of solid colour therefore, I would add
more detail to the clothing aspects of the image to be on par with the detail added to the
face.

7. Film Quotes

8. Film Quotes

9. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
I like the roto scope and comic effect that were combined and used in my first film quote
image; I feel that these two effects work well together to create a contrast. I also like the
font that was used for the quote; I used a warp tool and also the stroke tool to make the
font look more bold and eye catching. On my first image I like the use of the colours in the
comic effect; I feel like these stand out from the black background and give the image a
more appealing look as the colours give a more bright feel. In my second image I like the
use of comic book effect on this still image, I feel like it gives the image an abstract look.
The use of font also gives a good effect as it is alongside the arrow which gives the effect
that the text is moving with the arrow.
What would you improve if you did it again?
If I was to re-make a film quote image I would try a new approach on the comic effect; I
would add some colour to it specifically colours in which juxtapose each other such as
yellow and purple and I would also make the threshold levels higher to try and get a more
darker effect on the image. I would also try to create a film quote using just text; I could
have the font filled in with an image from the movie to give it a better effect.

10. Text Based

11. Text Based

12. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
I like the use of stoke on some of my font; I feel like this made the font look more bold and
stand out better. I like the use of the warp tool on this font also, I feel like it can help to give
the font more of an abstract look as you can move certain parts of the font. In addition,
using an image and putting it in the font can make your font more interesting and give it
more of a vibrant feel depending on what you want to place in the font. I like the use of
space in which you can add between the lettering in the font; this can give it more of an
abstract look and help to fill up space on a page, or help to fit the font into smaller places by
compressing the letters closer together.
What would you improve if you did it again?
If I was to create some more text based images again I would experiment using different
colours and a range of more techniques. Rather than just using the extremes of each effect
in which you can add to the font I would create some text based images in different sizes
and styles. . I would also choose various different fonts to see how these would work with
various effects such as paragraphing; in addition, I would type up some more text to see
how these effects worked when using more words rather than just a small amount.

13. Comic Book

14. Comic Book

15. Comic Book

16. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
In my first image I like that you can still see the original colours from the original image as
well as the threshold and darker tones in which were added. This helped to give a more
realistic look to the character in the comic book effect and allows you to define the facial
features well. In the second image I like the use of colour; I feel that these colours all work
well together and give the comic image a more artistic and abstract look apposed to a
normal comic image. I also like the use of the speech bubble as it helps to add to the comic
effect by adding more comic book stereotypical features. In the last image I like that the
darker tones fit the mood of the shot; these darker tones still give you enough detail to
identify the character but at the same time the darkened tones gives a more mysterious and
abstract look.
What would you improve if you did it again?
If I were to create one of these images again I would use the extremes of the threshold tool
by making it really high and then really low; this would allow me to work with very abstract
images by having a lot of detail and then hardly any detail at all. I would also experiment
with various other colour overlays by using colours in which juxtapose each other such as
very bright colours for a dark image and darker colours for a brighter image.

17. Photo Story

18. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
What would you improve if you did it again?

19. Illustration

20. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
What would you improve if you did it again?

21. Narrative Environment

22. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
What would you improve if you did it again?

23. Initial Ideas

24. Idea Generation

27. Mood board summary
• Cat / Xander : I decided to have my character of Domingo’s cat black; I feel like this color
will help represent his personality. As the cat murders the giant I feel that black helps to
reflect death and darkness. I wanted to have a thin black cat as these are more like
shadows and darkness opposed to a fluffy black kitten.
• Domingo : I decided to have Domingo as a homeless man, in the story it tells us that he
isn’t wealthy and he has nothing left apart from his cat. Therefore, I feel like the images
which I picked of a homeless man looking dirty and wearing brown reflects someone
with no wealth and someone struggling.
• King : I wanted to have a stereotypical fairy tale king therefore, I have collected images
of a large king wearing reds and purples which are typical colors that represent wealth.
I have made the king look happy and jolly as in the story he is getting diamonds and
gold delivered to him therefore he is a happy character.
• Giant : I collected images of big green giants; I want my giant to be reflective of those
from a normal fairytale, the colors of green and brown which I will include symbolize
greed, jealousy and cowardice.
• Kings daughter : These images show a princess wearing pink, as the princess is to get
married in the story I feel that pink helps to symbolize the love. I have included a
princess with blonde hair as this is a bright glowing color to show the importance of this
character.

28. Proposal
Dimensions
8 pages, landscape format; “10x”10 large square.
Story Overview
1; Domingo is homeless and he tells his cat that even though he is the last thing left he has he will
never sell him.
2; Xander the cat is going to go and make money so he goes to a cave and digs up the ground.
3; Xander digs up some silver, he goes and gives it to Domingo and some of the silver to the king.
4; Xander does the same again and digs up some gold and some diamond he gives this to the king
and the king is very grateful.
5; The king then organises a wedding for Domingo and his daughter.
6; Xander goes and asks the king for a suit for Domingo as the ‘suit store burned down’.
7; Xander goes and eats the giant so he can use his castle for the wedding venue.
8; Xander goes off to help another poor person.
Export Format
JPEG
Advantages: when exporting it has full colour information which means that the images in the
book will be of good quality colour wise. In addition, this file format has a large compression ratio
which means that it won’t take long to compress the file.
Disadvantages: a disadvantage of using JPEG as the file export format is that there can be a loss of
image quality which means when exporting the images may become blurred or pixelated.

29. Deadline
15th of June 2016.
Audience
My book will be aimed towards any gender; as this story isn’t a stereotypical story for any
gender and it includes characters in which both genders would like. The age range for my book
would be children around the age of 4/5 years old as the story is quite simple however there is
some context such as the vat eating the giant which is quite violent. The target audience is also
adults who have children at this age as they would need to read the story to the children due
to them not being able to read. The book would be aimed at children and adults living in the
UK as the story is written in English and follows an English folk tale.
Production Methods
To make my children's book I will use a variety of methods on Photoshop to create the images
for the book; I will use rotoscoping to create the pictures. I will also take some pictures of some
of my subjects and then rotoscope on top of the images. I will also use some shapes on
Photoshop to make certain characters and subjects for the photos. I will use some font on
Photoshop to type up the text for the story; I will use the warp tool to make the front appear
more appealing and also add a stroke effect to make It bold and stand out more.

30. What are the strengths of the proposal? What areas of the proposal need further work?
What are the strengths of the idea generation? What areas of idea generation could have been
further developed?

31. What are the strengths of the proposal? What areas of the proposal need further work?
What are the strengths of the idea generation? What areas of idea generation could have been
further developed?

32. What are the strengths of the proposal? What areas of the proposal need further work?
What are the strengths of the idea generation? What areas of idea generation could have been
further developed?

33. Feedback Summary
Sum up your feedback.
Which parts of your feedback do you agree with and why?
Which parts of your feedback do you disagree with and why?

34. Original Script
Original Script goes here with link to where it came from

35. Original Script
Original Script goes here with link to where it came from

36. Story Breakdown
Final script goes here.

37. Draft Script
Final script goes here.

38. Final Script
Final script goes here.

39. Digital Flat Plans