The document provides feedback on a student's digital graphic narrative development tasks. For their shape task, the student likes that they added shading to create shadows and highlights, making the image more eye-catching. They would improve by adding more detail and a creative background. For their rotoscope task, the student spent time on facial features and likes the lips and eyes. They would improve skin and clothing colors. For their text task, the student experimented with text techniques and likes using color and drop shadows. They would experiment with more fonts. For their comic, the student likes the contrasting colors and abstract qualities. They would add more definition and make images more abstract.

1. Digital Graphic Narrative
Development
Emily Parkes

2. Shape Task

3. Shape Task

4. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
I like that I have used shading to the image to create shadows and highlights to the elephant to make it look
more eye catching and not just one block of colour. The darker areas on the elephant I blurred a little bit to
make it blend into the main colour more and to make the image look more professional and to add more detail
to the elephant. Overall for my first go I think the outcome was good but once I get use to all the tools and
practise more the image I create will eventually end up looking a lot better and more professional.
For the second image I used a new technique to add a lot more detail onto the image. When creating
highlighted areas I used the colour range tool to select the more highlighted areas on the original image then
added the colour to give the cartoon more definition and makes the cartoon look more professional.
What would you improve if you did it again?
If I could do this again I would add a more creative background to make the image look more creative and for it
to be more eye catching and stand out more, instead of having one block colour I would add different colours
like blue at the top for sky and green at the bottom to look like grass. I would also add a bit more detail near
the legs of the elephant to make sure they aren’t one block of colour and show that there are actually legs.
I would improve this image by adding a few more shaded just below the nose and around where the head is to
define the head a bit more and to help it stand out more from the original block colour. For the background I
would make sure it isn't just a block colour and add some detail on it to make the cartoon look more
interesting and for it to stand out more.

5. Rotoscope

6. Rotoscope

7. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
I really like the facial features on this images because I put a lot of detail and time doing them because I wanted them to be what
stands out on the image. For the hair I used colour range to easily select different shadows and highlighted areas in the hair and
then add different colours to the hair to make them look more realistic. My favourite part of this image is the lips and eyes
because I used bright colours for both of them to make them stand out from the rest of the face and to be very eye catching, and
when I was creating the lips and eyes I made sure I add loads of detail to them to make them the main feature of the image.
What I like about the second rotoscope I created was the hair and the eyes because I spent more time on these sections to make
sure that I put a lot of detail and definition in them because I wanted these features to be what stood and on this image and I feel
like I achieved that. I also like that I have added a little bit more shading around the nose and eye area than my last image because
I wanted to see if it would make a difference and in my opinion I think it makes the nose and eyes a little bit more eye catching
and realistic.
What would you improve if you did it again?
If I could do this image again I would make sure the skin tone of here face and neck aren't as grey and I would also make sure her
clothing was a little bit brighter to make the image more eye catching. I would also use the colour range tool on the eye brows to
add some shadows or highlights to make the brows look more realistic and make the image overall look a bit more professional.
For my second image I would improve how much shadows I put onto the clothing because I think if I added a few more shadows
and a few highlighted areas it would make the clothing look less like one block of colour and make It look more realistic. I could
also try and add a few darker and lighter colours onto the face to create shadows and highlighted areas to make the image look
more realistic and it could allow me to also make certain areas of the face stand out and extenuate certain features.

8. Text Based

9. Text Based

10. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
When I was doing this task I really liked experimenting with different ways of making the text look more
interesting and unique. With these text I created them by changing the distance between text, distance
between letters, added an image to the letters and used different shapes to cut out certain parts of the text, I
really liked all of my text because of using these different techniques because it allows you to personalise the
text to how every you want it. For my last text I created I added colour and a drop shadow which I liked a lot
because I think it adds more detail and definition to the text and makes it look more interesting and eye
catching.
What would you improve if you did it again?
If I did this task again I would experiment using different fonts to see what different effects I could get because
in my opinion I think this technique can be very helpful for creating magazine covers, CD front covert and lot
more. I would also experiment with different shadows and strokes I could use on the text to make it stand out
more and look more unique.

11. Comic Book

12. Comic Book

13. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
For the first cartoon I created I like the contrast between the colours because it makes the cartoon look more
eye catching and I created this effect by changing the threshold to add definition to areas like the hair and eyes.
Even though this image isn't very colourful and is mostly grey I like it because I feel like it makes the cartoon
more unique and stand out more.
On the second cartoon I like that it is more colourful than the first cartoon because it makes it eye catching. For
this cartoon I made it a little bit more abstract by going onto filter gallery and putting the number of levels and
edge simplicity up high to extenuate the shapes of the original image but I also made sure the image still had
definition on the faces by changing the threshold to make sure there would still be detail on the cartoon.
What would you improve if you did it again?
If I could improve my first image I would make it a little bit more realistic by going into filter gallery and making
sure all of the settings weren't too high and I would try and add more definition by changing the threshold to
make pars of the cartoon stand out even more but overall I like the outcome of my first image and wouldn’t
change much.
For my second image I would improve how much definition I put onto the cartoon because I feel like it makes
the characters clothes just look like one block colour which I think ruins the effect of the cartoon. I would also
try and make the image a little bit more abstract to make it look very unique and stand out more because I feel
like if it was more abstract it would have put more emphasise on the shapes from the original image.

14. Photography

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

16. Illustration

17. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
On the first image I drew I liked how I added a few darker areas to add depth to the drawing and make it look
less flat by adding these darker areas it makes sure that the drawing is a bit more interesting. Out of everything
I drew my favourite is the eye because I like how I used a lot of shading to add different shadows and highlights
which adds a lot of detail and it also adds loads of depth and dimension to the drawing and makes it stand out
more and look more professional. I also added shading to the mouth I drew to again add more detail to make
sure it didn’t look flat and looked more realistic. Overall in my opinion I think everything I drew looks good and
all of them stand out.
What would you improve if you did it again?
There isn’t much I would improve on my drawings apart from adding more shading to my first drawing to make
it more eye catching. On the mouth drawing I would change the way I did the pencil lines when doing the
shading to make the lips look more realistic and also made sure the different colours of shading blended
together and had a gradient between them. There isn’t anything I think I could improve that much on my eye
drawing apart from when I was blending the shading to try and avoid getting fingerprints around my work.

18. Initial Ideas

19. Mood board of inspiration

20. Idea Generation

21. Mood board of chosen idea

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

23. Deadline
Audience
(Think about who you are targeting as your audience. Consider age, gender, class,
location and other characteristics which could define your audience.)
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)

24. 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?

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. 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?

28. Storyboards

29. Storyboards

30. Storyboards

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

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

33. Final Script
Final script goes here.

34. Digital Flat Plans