This document contains evaluations of different digital graphic narrative development tasks completed by Ross Hardman, including drawing an alligator, rotoscoping a shark, creating text-based images, and initial plans for an original graphic narrative project. For each task, Hardman provides feedback on what he liked about the image and what he would improve. In the initial plans, he includes mood boards, story outlines, production methods, intended audience and other proposal details, but notes some areas of the proposal need further work.

1. Digital Graphic Narrative
Development
Ross Hardman

2. Shape Task

3. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
The gradient change on most of the spikes on the alligators back created a good texture and the
colour of the alligators body as I felt it was very close to the actual colour of one, these are the
only real positives that I take from this bit of work as ill explain below.
What would you improve if you did it again?
Id use a simpler image for my work as I found this one very difficult to make recognisable, I would
try to make the tail look more aesthetically pleasing to the eye, as well as the mouth and legs, I
would've also liked to change the background but with the work on the spikes I did not have time
too.

4. Shape Task

5. Rotoscope

6. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
I liked the look of my sharks body and fins as I though the colour scheme and proportions look
aesthetically pleasing to the eye, I also like the background that I created for the work as it looks
like the ocean is getting darker as the shark goes deeper into the water as well as the additions of
the bubbles and seaweed.
What would you improve if you did it again?
If I did it again I would aim to improve the mouth and gills of the shark and add texture to the
sharks body, I would also add more too the background of the image such as fish or other forms
of sea life, I feel like the background is too empty, also I would try to rotoscope the whole image
as apposed to just the fins, gills , tail and mouth.

7. Rotoscope

8. Text Based

9. Text Based

10. Text Based

11. Text Based

12. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
I really like the CM Punk clipping mask effect used on the second image and the tracking and
leading tool, the CM Punk clipping mask effect worked perfectly and I gained the desired effect
that I was looking for, this is down to the tracking and leading tool making it possible to push the
letters of my name closer together so I could get the image of CM Punk to look coherent.
What would you improve if you did it again?
Id use less effects on my first set of names if I could do it again as the last one doesn’t look
aesthetically pleasing on the eye.

13. Comic Book

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

15. Photography

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

17. Illustration

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

19. Initial Ideas

20. Mood board of inspiration

21. Idea Generation

22. Mood board of chosen idea

23. Proposal
Dimensions
(number of pages and page size)
Export Format
Advantages:
Disadvantages:
Story Overview
(Provide an outline of your story)

24. Production Methods
(Explain the methods you are going to use to produce your pages. Show us the
thinking behind your decisions for a more detail response)
Audience
(Think about who you are targeting as your audience. Consider age, gender, class,
location and other characteristics which could define your audience.)
Deadline

25. 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?

26. 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?

27. 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?

28. 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?

29. Storyboards

30. Storyboards

31. Storyboards

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

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

34. Final Script
Final script goes here.

35. Digital Flat Plans