The document provides a template for evaluating a graphic narrative project. It prompts the user to praise strong elements of their work and identify areas for improvement. It suggests including both written explanations and visual examples. The user should compare their final product to original plans and intentions. They are also prompted to consider technical construction of images, use of text, suitability for audience, and representation of people. Signs, symbols, and cultural codes used should be identified. Peer and audience feedback should be summarized and discussed.

1. Graphic Narrative
Evaluation

2. Use this template to help you evaluate your project.
You should give specific details about your work.
You should provide both written and visual examples to explain your project.
You should find areas to praise in your work. Be specific about why you think they are
good or why you are proud of them.
You should also find areas that could be improved. Look for areas that you could make
better if you went back to them. Be specific about what you would improve.
Add additional slides as you need to. Don’t be restricted by what is here.
Any blank slides should be deleted before submission.

3. Does your final product reflect your
original intentions?
• Compare your planning/digital flat plans/
storyboards to your final product
• My overall final product I feel is a good representation of what my original
intentions were. My digital flat plans showed how I wanted 10 pages for my final
story which is what I ended up achieving. I also made all the characters look
extremely similar to the ones I used in my flat plans as I wanted it to look as close
to my flat plans as possible. I also chose to make my background similar but not
identical so that it still looked as if I’d created it myself and hadn’t just copied an
existing background from somebody else.

5. How well have you constructed your
images?
• How well have you constructed your images?
You could talk about the overall visual
appearance and well as the use of texture and
colour.

7. How well have you used text to anchor
your images
• The majority of my text links in with the images and matches
it well. For example the first page talks about the mother
ducks eggs hatching and the image matching the text is a
picture of ducklings hatching out of their shells with their
mother sat beside them. Having an image to match along with
the text is beneficial as it helps children further understand
what the text means by also looking at the image.

8. The only page I feel doesn’t represent as well with my text is
the 6th page as this page explains how the ugly duckling ran
away because of all the insults that he was receiving however
the image only shows the ugly duckling already in the place he
ran away too which could potentially be confusing for younger
audiences.

9. Is your product suitable for your
audience?
• Reference your proposal
• Give an audience profile and describe suitability in reference to
content
• I feel that my product is highly suitable for the target audience that
I chose (toddlers- young children, aged 3-6 years old) as my book
has very little text so that the children don’t get bored or confused
by it. I also have pictures which are simple to understand and see
that also link well with my text further helping children to fully
grasp what is going on within my story on each different page. I also
decided to use simplistic and basic language so that the children are
physically able to read and understand the story as much as they
possibly can. In my proposal I stated that my book won't be gender
specific as it doesn't include any stereotypical girl/boy features.

11. What do you like/dislike about the
techniques you have used?
• Reference specific tools you used with images

13. What do you like/dislike about how
your final product looks?

15. Why did you include the content you
used?
• Images, fonts, effects, colours

17. What signs, symbols or codes have
your used in your work?
• Choices of colour, style, locations, character
design and tone all give additional meaning to
your work.

18. Audience Responses
Cultural competence:
Media texts require us to have a certain level of cultural understanding to
be able to interpret them.
At a basic level, this could mean being able to read the language that a
magazine is written in.
At a deeper level, it means being able to interpret signs and symbols that
we use a visual shorthand to communicate ideas.
We recognise these signs in our own culture but find it harder to
understand when looking at others.
We create and attach meaning to signs and symbols in many different
forms.
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19. Audience Responses
Cultural competence:
What is this?
This is a Norwegian Pine tree, covered in
snow and with a red ribbon on.
Our cultural understanding allows us to
interpret its meaning.
To us, in British society, it means
Christmas, presents and family.
This is because we share a cultural
knowledge.
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20. Audience Responses
Cultural competence:
There are many other signs and symbols
that we attach meaning to.
A leather jacket can imply rebellion.
A sports car can imply wealth and power.
A cross can represent religion.
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21. Audience Responses
Cultural competence:
Visual representations of everyday objects are often the same the world
over. A car appears as a car, no matter what country it appears in.
What that car means however, can be very different depending on your
cultural background.
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23. What representations can be found in
your work?
• How are men, women or children shown in
your work? Does your work feature different
ages, races, social groups or religions? Does a
lack of any variety of character types create its
own representation?

25. What style have you employed in your
products?
• Discuss influences/ existing products
• What visual style does your work have and
why did you choose it?

27. What were the strengths and weaknesses
of the pre-production and planning
• How did the planning and research help
• How well did you manage your time
• Reference specific examples

29. Historical and cultural context
• How does your work compare to what has
come before? What other similar products
have existed in the past? What current
products exist?

31. Feedback 1
• What do you like about the graphics?
– The background is very well made. The trees are
my favourite because of the detail you put in
them. The ducks are also well made as well.
• What would you do to develop the graphics?
– It's a bit blurry.

32. Feedback 2
• What do you like about the graphics?
What I like about the graphics is that it is really obvious what everything is because they’ve all been
made really well, its clear that you’ve put quite a lot of effort in to the detail of your pages. I also like
your colour choices, they all match each other really well. Another thing I like about the graphics is that
the text has been put in the right places which makes it really easy to read.
• What would you do to develop the graphics?
In my opinion there isn't anything Id change, the pages have clearly been made really well so I think you
should leave them as they are :)

33. Feedback 3
• What do you like about the graphics?
I like the consistency in art style you have and the detail of the ducks,
The colours you have chosen work really well too
• What would you do to develop the graphics?
I would change the way you have saved your images as the have been exported
with a high compression making them seem abit pixelated with compression
artefacts

34. Peer Feedback
• Summarise peer feedback and discuss
• I feel that the majority of my feedback was accurate as I put a lot of
effort into making both the ducks and the background details (such
as the tree) I also agree that the colours work well together and will
appeal more to my target audience.
• Another point that I agree with is that my images are slightly blurry
so to improve this I could compress my files more which as a result
would make my images clearer to viewers.
• I don’t particularly highly disagree of any of my feedback apart from
part of it says they wouldn't develop or change anything which I do
disagree with however as I feel that there is always room for
improvement.