Final evaluation. bacon

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
• In my planning I said that my story would be 10 A3
pages and also that the scenes would be comic book
with the characters being rotoscope. The final product
is A3 but the book is actually 11 pages instead of 10,
both the scene and characters are rotoscope. My
storyboard/digital flat plan consists of 11 pages with
the text underneath the scene. The final product
consists of 11 pages however the text is in with the
images instead of underneath/to the side.

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.
• To produce my images I had to go and find some
suitable photos of people for each character.
What I then had to do was rotoscope each image
to give them all a cartoon like effect. The tones
and colours do generally mix quite well but the
main area to improve is definitely the
inconsistency of character size as in some scenes
characters appear to be smaller than in others.

6. Here is what I mean in size
inconsistency. Little Red
Riding Hood seems to vary in
size as does the wolf in each
image

7. How well have you used text to anchor
your images
• In my book I have chosen to change the
position of the text depending on the page. It
is all at the top of the page but it varies
between right, left and centre. The text is
generally quite short. I believe that because
the text is rather short and very simple, it will
be suitable for children.

8. This page is an example of short and simple text

9. Is your product suitable for your
audience?
• Reference your proposal.
• Give an audience profile and describe suitability in
reference to content
• In my proposal I stated that my audience would be
“young children of both genders who are English
speakers (aged 4-7) who are interested in outside life”
I feel as though my final product matches what I said
my target audience would be. I feel thus because the
majority of the story is set outdoors and also because
there is a mix of both male and female characters. The
storyline is very simple which is easy for young people
to follow.

11. What do you like/dislike about the
techniques you have used?
• The main technique I used was rotoscoping. To perform rotoscope I
had to go round my person/object with the polygonal lasso tool.
What I like about this technique is that it is very accurate. I also like
the way it allows me to turn a real picture into a cartoon. However
if you do something with the lasso tool by accident it is not easy to
undo but can sometimes it can result in you having to lasso what
you wanted to cut out all over again.
• In order to make my images cartoon like I had to double click on the
layer, double click colour range then click on the colour of Red
Riding Hood’s dress (as an example) to create the cartoon version of
the dress. For the woodcutter I used Ron Burgundy so in order to
make him look like a woodcutter I had to change the colour of his
clothes. The only backdrop is that certain parts of each character’s
clothes my be a different shade of a colour on one part of the
clothing.

12. This is an example of rotoscope. As you can see the colour on one side
of the basket is much different to the other.

13. What do you like/dislike about how
your final product looks?
• The main strengths of my final product is the quality of the indoor scenery. I think
this was always going to have an advantage over outdoors as the colours will be
artificial whereas outdoors will be natural therefore it is easier to replicate in
rotoscope style. Another positive of my work is the quality of my Red Riding Hood
and the Grandma. I feel as though these were the more successful characters I
managed to rotoscope. I felt as though these were the easiest characters to make
as there was not that much editing I actually had to make to them.
• However there are some negatives to my final product. I feel as though the
Mother could have been rotoscoped a little better. Instead of making her two
separate legs, I made just the one and merged the feet layer and the leg layer
together then copied it so that both legs looked the same. I also feel as though I
could have found a better picture for the wolf as I had some issues trying add
some legs and a tail. There were also some issues with making the wolf’s teeth as
it was very tricky to find a picture of a wolf showing its teeth then transferring the
teeth over to my wolf. Another room for improvement is the overall quality of my
woods. There is an awful lot of green in my woods but very little sky.

14. Here we see the difference
in quality between my
indoor scenes and my
outdoor scenes. I am not
very happy about my woods
as it looks like there is a
small bit of sky randomly
placed in the centre of the
page when it should go all
the way to the end of the
woods to create contrast. I
think the main strength of
the inside scene is that there
are no real gaps and
everything looks the way it
should.

15. Why did you include the content you
used?
• Images, fonts, effects, colours
• I feel as though the images I have chosen were appropriate because they all do represent what you
would expect each character to look like in a children’s book. For my woodcutter I used a picture of
Ron Burgundy, I feel he was a good choice to use as he has the hair colour and the facial features
that you would expect a woodcutter to have. Before I started the final product I produced a practice
page in which I produced Red Riding Hood and the wolf. When I started my actual project I realised
I needed to produce 3 more characters to tell my story effectively. I made the mother before I
started the project as she would appear in the first two pages, then I made the woodcutter and the
Grandma as I approached the ending to the story.
• I had decided to use a very basic font (the geneva CY) with a very basic colour because the book
was aimed at 4-7 year olds therefore it has to be easier for them to read. This would be a sans serif
font as there are no extra parts to any letter.
• In my main production there was not really any effects used. This is because I preferred to
rotoscope my work
• The reason why I chose the colours in my book was because I wanted the book to be as realistic as
possible therefore I used the colours that would normally be used. In some of the children’s books I
had read in my research there was no unusual colours. I think it is important to keep the colours
realistic so that children can learn about real life and also have fun reading at the same time.

16. Here is my Geneva CY font, it is very basic and also very easy to
read
I have used very
natural colours
for my tree and
pavement.

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.
• To show that my wolf is the villain, I have made him show
his teeth when Little Red Riding Hood realises that it is the
wolf in Grandma’s bed instead of Grandma.
• Nothing bad actually happens at the end of my story,
whereas in other Red Riding Hood books the wolf eats
Grandma and she’s gone, in others the woodcutter kills the
wolf but Grandma is saved. What I have done differently is I
have made it so the wolf eats grandma but grandma is still
alive and when the Woodcutter hits the wolf Grandma is
saved and the wolf runs away. This is ensure that the tone
is not in any way frightening to children.

18. Although the villain in the book is the wolf he isn’t made to look
that scary and the text is not particularly intimidating either.

19. 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?
• In my story it is the woodcutter who steps in at the end of the story to save the
day. The woodcutter is a man. This gives you the impression that it is always down
to a man to step in and solve the problem and makes women seem weak and
defenceless. This is typical of Children’s stories because in books with Princess’ in it
is always down to the Prince to slay the dragon and rescue her.
• The mother in the book seems to be in a shouting position whilst talking to Red
Riding Hood. This makes people who are mothers seem very stern and always
looking to dictate the situation.
• There are a range of different ages in my story. Little Red Riding Hood does not
follow her mother’s rules which makes young children seem disobedient.
• I feel as though there is not a lack of any type of character therefore there is no
real representation in that respect.

20. Here we have the opening page. This is what I mean
when I say mother’s are represented as bossy. Little Red
Riding Hood when she says “yes I know mother” could be
seen as cocky and slightly ignorant.

21. 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?
• Before I started my final product I had to do some research on
other Children’s stories. The main influence for where I would put
my text was “The Tiger Who Came To Tea” in this book the text is in
with the image and where it goes on the page varies. That book is
also done in cartoon style which was an influence to my work.
• My work is done in rotoscope form to give it that cartoon type of
effect. There are no curves or shadows in my work it has a very
angular style. The colours I have used are the colours you would
normally expect on Little Red Riding Hood, the woods and in the
two houses. I chose to use the rotoscope style on my work because
I believe that rotoscoping is the best way and is a lot less time
consuming.

22. The similarities between my influence book and my book is that the text is on
the same page as the image. It is also similar because both bits of scenery are
very realistic. The difference is the existing product looks as though it has been
illustrated whereas my book has clearly been done on Adobe Photoshop.

23. What were the strengths and weaknesses
of the pre-production and planning
• How did the planning and research help. I think it was a smart idea to have
a plan because it gave me a guide to what I needed to do and when. I
think research into existing products also helped me out as well because
they gave me a lot of influence as to how I was going to structure my own
work.
• How well did you manage your time. I feel as though I managed my time
rather well. I was given a deadline day in which to complete my work. My
personal target was to do at least 1 page a day, it then became apparent
that some pages had more work that needed doing on them than others,
for example there were some pages where the same scene is used
whereas others the scene only appears once.
• The main weakness in my planning is my mood board. I think I could have
put a few more images on there and less text in order to make it look a
better quality of mood board.
• However I feel as though my proposal is very much the main strength of
my work. It specifies exactly what I was planning to do in my product in a
reasonable amount of detail. I also feel as though it makes good sense.

25. 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?
• The original story was told by French peasants in the 10th century with the first publication being in
1881. In my story there are no deaths in my story but in other versions there could be somebody
dying as in times gone by people weren’t as afraid to make children feel scared.
• The difference between my work and the other work is that my work is done in rotoscope form
whereas the other examples are done differently. My work is done in rotoscope while others look
like they have been hand drawn. The top right image has also been done with a bit of water colour,
I think all the other versions are hand drawn because hand drawings are traditional as is Little Red
Riding Hood. The detail on my work is very basic compared with the detail on real examples, the
illustrations on other pieces of work are very complicated whereas my illustrations were rather
simple. The examples all keep the same colour text throughout whereas mine changes for the last
page. This is because the image colour on my final page is too dark to use black text. In the
examples the authors have designed text boxes to keep the colour of text consistent. This is
because the background of each text box is white so it does not matter if the illustration uses dark
colours. The top right version is more cartoony and more child friendly, it is very contemporary
whereas the bottom 2 are very traditional and old fashioned. My version is very modern and
contemporary. It was all my idea to make an up to date version, you can tell this because in one of
my illustrations there is a TV in the corner.
• The similarities are that my book and the other book examples combine text with image on the
same page.

26. This version
is very
modern. It
was released
in January of
2002.
This version is
very
traditional. It
was released
on 1st October
2007.
This is a very
old version. It
was released
in the late
1800s.
This is my
version. It was
made in
rotoscope
form in
December
2014.

27. Peer Feedback
• Summarise peer feedback and discuss
– Responses you agree with
– Responses you disagree with