The document summarizes Dan Bell's work on various digital graphic narrative development tasks. It provides evaluations of assignments where he created images including a cartoon chicken, a monkey portrait using the rotocope tool, different text designs with his name, transforming photos into comic book styles, capturing different emotions in photos, and illustrating a soccer stadium stand. The evaluations note what aspects he liked from each image as well as areas he could improve if doing the assignments again, such as making images more accurate or distinctive.

1. Digital Graphic Narrative
Development
Dan Bell

2. Shape Task

3. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
I think that the main qualities of the cartoon type chicken that I have produced are: the way I have managed to get the shadow to
go around it, I also think that the colours that I have chosen for each section are suitable to what colour a chicken would really be.
Another positive I can take from this is the gradient in the chicken’s eye to give it the shining light effect shown in the real picture.
I particularly like the way I have managed to include a “stroke” to each layer. To start with the beak was very hard to make but in
the end I think it turned out quite nicely.
What would you improve if you did it again?
Despite the positives there are some negatives. If I could re-do this task I would have liked to make the chicken look more chicken
like, in my honest opinion it looks a bit too much like an egg with a chicken’s facial features. I would also have liked to get the
wattle on top of it’s head a bit neater. Some of the strokes are a little bit too dark as well.

4. Rotoscope

5. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
I think that the strongest aspects of my image are the way in that I have managed to get the fur to in a way overlap the colour
overlay, the way I have successfully managed to get the monkey into the correct shape. To get the monkey into shape I had to get
a photograph of a real monkey, and go around his full body with the ‘polygonal lasso’ tool. I then had to click the ‘layer via copy’
option in order to create a new layer which was just the monkey’s body without the leaves in the background. Another very
strong feature of my production is the way in which I managed to notice the smaller features of it’s face, for example the colour of
it’s gums and teeth. To find out whether my monkey was properly filled in (no white gaps) I had to turn the background off and I
feel I have successfully managed to fill in all the gaps to make it look like a cartoon monkey you’d see in books or on the TV.
What would you improve if you did it again?
Given the opportunity to repeat this work I would quite like to get some of the smaller features such as the monkey’s nose into a
more accurate shape. I would also have liked to have made it more obvious where the darker features of it’s fur were. I think that I
could have made the stripe that runs down the middle of his head look a lot more realistic, I am rather disappointed with that
small feature of my work. I also believe that I could have made it more obvious where it’s top teeth and where it’s bottom teeth
were.

6. Text Based

7. Text Based

8. Text Based

9. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
I think the main qualities of these images are the way in which I have managed to produce a different style of text for each copy of
my name “Dan Bell”. The one I particularly like is the one on the second slide where the photo of the Gateshead players
celebrating is. The reason why I like this one the most is because in order for this to occur I had to get the actual image off the
internet, make it overlap the text with my name on then press the ‘clipping mask’ tool which put the photo inside of my name. I
think that I also like the way in which my text becomes of a higher quality each time I typed it in and tried new techniques.
What would you improve if you did it again?
Given the opportunity to re-do this task I would quite like to make the differences between the text on slide 6 a little more
obvious. I think I would also have liked to have used a better font on slide 7 in order to make my name that bit easier to read.

10. Comic Book

11. Comic Book

13. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
I think the main qualities of these images are the way I have successfully manage to transform them from a real life image into a
comic strip type, the one I am most impressed with is the top image of Big Dave From The Congo. I enjoyed editing the threshold
to give it a more comic book like effect, then changing the blending mode to either screen, overlay or multiply. I also like the way
I’ve made Adam Sandler have a different type of skin tone.
What would you improve if you did it again?
If I could repeat this task I would like to add more effects to some of the images, make Jamie Chandler’s face and
George Spurs’ head appear in image number 1 and also make image 2 more cartoon like. If I could have removed the
Gateshead website loge that would have also made the image look a lot better.

14. Photography

18. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
I think the main strengths of these images are the way in
that they demonstrate happy, sad, excited and lonely. I
also think the photos are well taken.
What would you improve if you did it again?
If we could repeat this I think I would quite like to take
photos of more objects instead of people. I would also
have liked to have taken all the happy ones at the same
time and vice versa for sad, excited and lonely.

19. Illustration

20. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
What I like about my illustration is the way it replicates the
North Stand (or Sir Alex Ferguson Stand) at Old Trafford. I
think the colours I have chosen match the real thing. I think
the way I have managed to do letter, stairs, letter like it is in
real life also looks very good.
What would you improve if you did it again?
if I could repeat this I think I would have taken more time to
take in what it looks like, I think that I could also have included
the foreground looking into the stand so things like backs of
seats on the opposite side and the pitch.

21. Initial Ideas

22. Mood board of inspiration

23. Idea Generation

24. Mood board of chosen idea

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

26. 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

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. 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?

29. 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?

30. 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?

31. Storyboards

32. Storyboards

33. Storyboards

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. Final Script
Final script goes here.

37. Digital Flat Plans