This document contains summaries of assignments from a digital graphic narrative development course. It includes summaries of the student's evaluations of various image creation tasks using different digital tools, such as the shape tool, rotoscope tool, and text tools. The student provides feedback on what they liked about their images and how they could be improved. It also includes a summary of their proposal for a comic book project, which outlines the story, production methods, audience, and includes a feedback section.

1. Digital Graphic Narrative
Development
Hannah Woollaston

2. Shape Task

3. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
I liked the gradients in my image, especially on the ears I think this made the image look more realistic and as
if a light was shining on the panda. I also like the shape of the black parts around the eyes as this is a
distinctive part of the panda. I like the basic outline of the panda as I believe this makes it easily recognisable
as a panda, I also like the colours of the image, because I used a gray/white instead of a bright white, I think
this makes it look more realistic and natural.
What would you improve if you did it again?
I would improve the gaps in my image and make sure that the whole image was covered. I would also add
some more strokes into my image to see what the image would look like with them in, I think this would add
more depth to my image. I would add some circles to the eyes to make it look like it had a glint in its eye, this
would help to make the image look more natural. To make the panda look more realistic I would also try to
add more detail to the mouth. Finally, if I was to do this again I would try to add more texture to the panda as
I think this would make it look more realistic and add more depth to the panda itself.

4. Improved shape task

5. Evaluation
• What did you like about your image?
This is my improved panda, I prefer this image because I added texture onto the panda, using colour range. I also like this
image because I changed the colour of the eyes using colour overlay, this has made the panda look more realistic. Also to
improve my image I went back over the image and filled in any gaps I had that were showing through as that made the
image look un-professional.
• What would you improve if you did it again?
• If I was to improve the panda image further I would make sure that, the outlines I created using the shape tool were
more smooth and not bumpy as this can spoil the effect on the image and make it look less realistic. Another thing I
would improve if I did this again is the background, I would try to create a more interesting one as this would help to
make the panda stand out more.

6. Shape Task

7. Evaluation
• What did you like about your image?
• I liked the clear outline and shape of the penguin I got from using the shape tool, I think this gives the
image a more realistic look. In this image I also used the texture tool to put texture on certain areas of
the image, I like this because I think it adds more depth to the penguin. Also, in this image I used the
polygon lasso tool to select face/nose area because there wasn’t any shapes that would’ve been able to
fit the shape of the face/nose properly, this is a benefit to the polygon lasso tool. In this image I also like
the colours used.
• What would you improve if you did it again?
• If I was to do this again I would add more detail to the penguin, maybe to the stomach, I would do this
by adding a subtle gradient to the shape.

8. Rotoscope

9. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
In this image, I like the general shape of the hamster as it is recognisable. I liked the rotoscope technique as a
whole as it is easy to use, I prefer it to the the shape tool for this reason. In this image I also like the colours
used as they all blend in well together and create depth in the image.
What would you improve if you did it again?
If I was to do this again I would try to incorporate putting the texture onto the hamster as I think this would
help to make it look more realistic.

10. Text Based

14. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
These images are my text practice images, the top image is showing how I used tracking and leading to spread out the words
and letters, I liked this because I think it could make the text very effective and prominent on the page if the words are spread
out. The second image is created by using ‘layer styles’ and ‘pattern overlay’ this makes the words stand out more, this tool
could be appropriate for a logo or advert etc, I liked the tool because it makes words look nicer and more prominent on the
page. The third technique was the clipping mask tool, to do this I had to write my name and make sure, using the tracking and
leading tool, that the letters were very cramped together. I then had to choose an image and place this on top of the text,
resize it and then right click on the layer to create clipping mask, because the most interesting part of the image wasn’t on my
text I used the move tool to move the image in my text. I really liked this technique and image because it is unusual and makes
the text more interesting to look at and read. The fourth image, on the same slide is the text edited using the warp tool, to do
this I had to rasterize my text layer to make it like a picture and then go onto ‘edit’, then ‘transform’ and then ‘warp’ I liked this
effect on the text because it creates an interesting shape to it. My fifth image was created using ‘distort’ this is done in the
same way as the warp image, I like this, however it is not my favourite technique I have used because I think it makes the text
look quite flat and boring, however I did like how it creates a perspective effect on the text. My final image is done using
‘skew’, again this is done in the same way as the warp and distort images, but I like this one because of how it draws you into
the text when you look at it.
What would you improve if you did it again?
If I did this again I would improve my ‘layer style pattern overlay’ text and maybe pick a more interesting pattern to go onto
the text, I think this would make it look more interesting.

15. Comic Book

16. Comic book

17. Comic book

18. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
I created three images, through using cut-outs and the threshold tool. I like the first image because of how
cartoon like it looks, but still looks realistic and you can still see the facial features in there. The second image
is my favourite because I decided to play around with the colour more and then change the lightness. This
has given the image a deep purple colour which I think adds depth to the image, on this image I also like the
sketchy detail of her hair that the cut-outs and threshold tools create. On the third image, I decided to go a
little more abstract with the cut-out tool, I think this creates an interesting effect on the image, I also then
used threshold on the image and the hue/saturation tool to make the background dark and the main focus of
the image (Carl and Pete) almost fully white compared with the background.
What would you improve if you did it again?
If I were to try this technique again I would use the overlay, blending mode and screen more to see what
effect this had on my images, I didn’t do this, this time because I liked the cartoon effect my images had, but I
would experiment with that next time.

19. Happy Photography Lonely
Excited Sad

20. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
I liked these images because I think they describe the set emotions well, (happy, sad, excited and lonely). I
also really liked how we decided to send them as Snapchats and take a picture, of the picture, I think this an
effective way of creating an interesting set of images, rather than just taking pictures of the person. I also
liked how we took the photos of the phone at an interesting and unusual angle, this makes it easier to see
the pictures on the phone but also makes the photo of the phone look better than if it had just been taken at
a straight-forward angle. I also liked how we used a small aperture so that only the phone and the image on
the phone is in focus, I think this makes it easier for the viewer to see that the phone and the image on it are
the main subjects.
What would you improve if you did it again?
If I was to improve these images I would try taking the photo at different angles, to see which worked best
and created the most interesting photograph, I would also try to define the emotions in the picture more by
the actions in the pictures.

21. Illustration

22. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
I decided to draw some flowers for the illustration example, to begin with I looked for images of flowers on
Google for inspiration, but this was unsuccessful so I decided to draw the flowers from my own imagination.
There were some elements of the drawing I liked, despite not being best pleased with it. I liked how the
flowers all over-lapped each other, I think this creates depth in the image and makes it more interesting, I did
like the shading in the centre of the flowers because this makes them stand out against the white
background.
What would you improve if you did it again?
If I were to draw these flowers again I would improve, the outline of the flowers and make them more bolder
as it is difficult to see them against the white background in the photograph. Another thing I would improve
and change is how spaced out the flowers on the outside are, I would make them closer together and more
central and this would help to bring the viewers attention to the centre of the image where the main flower
is. Id I was to do this again I would upload my drawing to Photoshop and see if I could combine any digital
techniques with drawing to make it look better.

23. Initial Ideas

24. Mood board of inspiration

25. Idea Generation

26. Mood board of chosen idea

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

28. 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

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. 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. 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?

33. Storyboards

34. Storyboards

35. Storyboards

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

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

38. Final Script
Final script goes here.

39. Digital Flat Plans