This document contains summaries of assignments completed as part of a digital graphic narrative development course. For an alligator image, the student liked the gradient texture on the spikes but felt the image was too difficult. They would simplify the image and improve the tail, mouth, and legs. For a shark image, the student liked the body, fins, and background but would improve the mouth, gills, and add more detail. The student also provided summaries of assignments creating text-based images, a comic book effect, photographs exploring emotions, and an illustration of themselves.

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. Comic Book

15. Comic Book

16. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
I like the effect and process that I used to gain such effect because it is simple yet creates a very
neat and abstract effect just like a comic book, my first image of Triple H is perfect for this very
reason as it captures the image perfectly but the image also has the abstract feel as the water
that is being spat out in my image looks almost like flames.
What would you improve if you did it again?
If I did it again I would probably use more abstract and surreal imagery to create an even more
interesting image effect but otherwise I think the effects work just how they were intended.

17. Photography

18. Photography

19. Photography

20. Photography

21. Evaluation
What did you like about your images?
I liked the fact that with photography you can get good real life crisp images in almost no time to
use in a project, these images took 30 minutes to gather and aim to capture the emotions of
loneliness happiness sadness and excitement.
What would you improve if you did it again?
Id change the sadness and excitement images in order to get a better look on the bullies face and
less blur on the shot of me jumping.

22. Illustration

23. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
Not much as I don’t have good illustration skills but I think I did better than I expected, especially
with the CM Punk logo on the shirt.
What would you improve if you did it again?
Id add more detail to the T-shirt and add shading and textures to the shirt, beard and hair of my
image.

24. Initial Ideas

25. Mood board of inspiration

26. Idea Generation

27. Mood board of chosen idea

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

29. 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

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. Storyboards

35. Storyboards

36. Storyboards

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

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

39. Final Script
Final script goes here.

40. Digital Flat Plans