The document contains evaluations from a student of various digital graphic narrative development tasks they completed in Photoshop, including shaping images, rotoscoping, working with text, comic book illustrations, photography to convey emotions, and illustrations. For most tasks, the student liked the simplicity or ability to manipulate elements, but felt they could improve by adding more detail or refining certain aspects if they did the tasks again.

1. Digital Graphic Narrative
Development
Will Wheatley

2. Shape Task

3. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
I liked the simplicity of it. And the fact that it was relatively easy to create
with the Photoshop software and looks more or less as it’s supposed to. I like
the fact that whilst the design is very rounded and curvy, only core basic
shapes were used. I used shape merging which is combining multiple layers of
shapes together into one layer so they wouldn’t separate and ruin the image.
I also used the line tool to add in extra detail such as creases in the skin. I also
used the outline tool to give my animal a defining edge around it. Although
my image seems jagged, I have used the warp tool to round and bend some
of the image.
What would you improve if you did it again?
I’d like to improve the amount of detail in my animal. As only the basic
features have been added to it such as using the colour range tool to add in
the fur and fuzziness on the animal. I would like to do this to give the cartoon
a slight more realistic look about it. I would also like to clean it up a bit,
making sure the image is smooth, sharp and rounded.

4. Rotoscope

5. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
I used the colour range
What would you improve if you did it again?
I would like to add in a lot more detail and more
of my own effects as it doesn’t look much
different to the original image.

6. Text Based

7. Text Based

8. Text Based

9. Text Based

10. Evaluation
What did you like about your images?
I liked being able to manipulate text because Photoshop gives you
much more freedom to create unlike the likes of Microsoft Word. I
liked being able to add a background to the text and personalize it with
a picture of your choice. I also liked being able to freely warp and bend
text to create shapes with it. I liked putting the “stroke” borders
around my text to give it a defining edge. I also like the part on the
quote where the “dying” part is large to emphasize the word.
What would you improve if you did it again?
I would like to improve my picture on the text so it is more clear as to
what the picture is. I would also like to improve the appearance of the
bottom text on my first page, adding a different gradient and style to
my text for a nicer, neater look.

11. Comic Book

12. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
I liked how I succeeded in making it simulate a comic book
illustration. I liked the detail of the shadows and highlights in
my image. I also liked the grain in my image to make it seem
old. I also liked how I have used highlights to shine on his face
to make it distinguished.
What would you improve if you did it again?
I would like to give my image some colour as comic books are
usually in colour to convey emotion into the image. I also
would like to draw with a brush tool around the edge of the
face to separate Quentin’s face with the background of the
image. I would also improve on the overall look of the image
as it looks more like a painting than a sketch/drawing.

13. Photography - Sadness

14. Photography - Excitement

15. Photography - loneliness

16. Photography - happiness

17. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
I liked the usage of black and white effect to present a
negative emotion, in this case loneliness. Sadness was
presented in the image by looking away from the camera. The
people are also darkened to create a negative emotion. I also
like that on the happiness image that the sky is lit up around
his face. I also like that in the loneliness image she is the only
person in the image which furthers the feeling of loneliness.
What would you improve if you did it again?
My face on the excitement image doesn’t look as exciting as
the image is supposed to present. Similar with the happiness
image it doesn’t present a look of happiness.

18. Illustration

19. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
I like how it looks relatively like the source image. I like
how I have drawn him stood in a pose, rather than stood
in one place. I also liked how I have outlined the image to
bring out the edges of the image.
What would you improve if you did it again?
I would like to improve the neatness of my drawing as it is
very crudely drawn and rough. I would also like to
improve, specifically the hands as the thumb is a way too
long. I would like to improve upon them.

20. Initial Ideas

21. Mood board of inspiration

22. Idea Generation

23. Mood board of chosen idea

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

25. 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

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. 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. 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?

30. Storyboards

31. Storyboards

32. Storyboards

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

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

35. Final Script
Final script goes here.

36. Digital Flat Plans