The document provides planning details for a digital graphic narrative project. It includes considerations for costs, available resources, quantity of copies, audience and target market, quality factors, codes of practice, regulations, copyright, ethical issues, and a production schedule and health and safety plan. Costs would include materials, software, and printing. Resources listed are a graphics tablet, camera, and internet sources. The target audience is ages 1-6. Quality will be ensured through style consistency and high-resolution images. Regulations and copyright are addressed. A 10-session production schedule is outlined.

1. Digital Graphic Narrative Planning
Use this booklet to help structure your planning and collate your planning documents.
Considerations:
There are lots of things to consider in this project. Fill out each section in detail to show you have thought about each one. You
should imagine that this is a live project, so considerations like cost, quantity and codes of practice must be thought about in that
context rather than just as a college project.
Costs:
The costs for the project would be anything else that would need to be bought or the costs to have the book
printed, also the costs would cover any of the software’s like Photoshop, which would be used to create the
book.
Available resources:
There are a few available resources that could be used when making the book, for example a graphics tablet
could be used to help make the drawings for within the book, or a camera could also be used if there was a
specific look that you wanted for your book.

2. Quantity:
To make the book widely available to a lot of people there would have to be quite a lot of copies, also by
having a lot of copies it means that the price of the book doesn’t have to be too expensive to still see profit,
but if I was to only print a small amount they would have to be quite expensive to be able to see any kind of
profit.
Audience and Target Market:
For the target market of my book the age range would be around 1-6 years old as the audience for this book
should be young but old enough to read with guidance so that they can understand the moral of the story, but
the book wont be specifically aimed at any gender as the book is suitable for everyone. As well as this I think
its more important for this age group to be learning about sharing and with that being the moral of the story it
means that this age group are most likely to understand what this means and learn from it.
Quality Factors:
To make this a good piece of work and the quality the best it can be, being in college for every lesson so that
you can use the resources from college to help improve the work, also by spending all of lesson time focused
on the book and producing would help make the overall look improve and there wouldn’t be any wasted time.
Also to improve the quality of the book exporting the images in a high quality will help to achieve a more
professional overall look. As well as this to ensure the book works as one, I need to ensure that all the images
I create need to match one similar style so that they all work as a unit and look as if they have all come from
the same book.
Codes of Practice:
The codes of practice contains legal requirements between the publishers and authors of books for example
one of the codes of practice is that the publisher can’t cancel a contract without good and proper reason, if the
publishers were to cancel the contract they would have to provide the author with sufficient and detailed
reasons for why the work was rejected based on time, standard and quality and defamation and illegality.
Another example of a code of practice is that the contract must state a timescale for publication so that there
is a limited amount of time the author has to create the work in which should be stated in the formal contract.

3. Regulation:
My book doesn’t fall under being a toy as it has no added features which may be detached from the book or
any pop outs which may act as a toy, if the book did contain anything that could be a toy it would have to
comply with the toy safety directive so that the book isn’t harmful to children and can still be sold as a book. If
the book did fall under being a toy it would have to meet certain regulations so ensure that it is safe for
children to have.
Copyright:
As the storyline of my book is based on another story ‘Jack and The Beanstalk’ it means that some copyright
laws may apply, however because the story is very old the old stories generally don’t have copyright, where
as the modern stories have a lot more copyright laws on them. Also for copyright the older stories will have
the images in the being copyrighted so I will have to create my own and adapt the story so that its different
enough from the original story.
Ethical Issues:
There shouldn’t be any ethical issues within my book as the story doesn’t have any that is discriminatory in it
so that a wide variety of people would enjoy the book and not be offended by it which makes it suitable for a
wider range of people. As well as this because the characters in my book are animals it reduces the risk of
offending anyone because the characters don’t have resemblances to people.

4. Resources:
A successful project relies on good planning. Considering all the resources you will need for a project and then assessing which
you already have and which you need will help ensure you are ready to start your project.
If there is a resource you don’t currently have, then consider how you are going to get it before you go in to production.
Resource:
Do you have
it? What do you need to do to get it?
Computer Yes Buy, rent or borrow one.
Photoshop Yes
Buy the software, or if you know someone who has it ask to
borrow it.
Internet sources Yes Find a strong, legal internet connection.
Graphics tablet Yes Buy one or borrow one.
Camera Yes Buy a camera, or borrow one.
Source images Yes Browse the internet
Paper Yes Buy them or borrow it.

5. Production Schedule:
Delivering your project on time is vital. In order to do this, you need a solid plan of action. This will help you divide up your work in
to manageable chunks to be tackled one at a time. It will also allow you to plan which tasks need to be done in which order. It will
also allow you to track your progress each day. If you are falling behind, you will need to modify the way you work. If you work
faster than expected, you can clearly see what the next steps you need to take are.
Each session is a half day of college.
Session 1:
Create the background for the second page
Start the snake for page 2
Session 2:
Finish the snake for page 2

6. Make window background for the third page
Session 3:
Make the castle to go on the 4th page
Session 4:
Finalise the castle add small details

7. Give the castle a background for the 4th page
Start bear to go on 5th and 7th page
Session 5:
Finish the bear both standing and laying down for 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th page
Session 6:
Make bed and background for page 5 and 7

8. Start money bags
Session 7:
Close up of the bears face
Start gold bananas for page 6
Session 8:
Finish the bananas

9. Make the beans/seeds
Session 9:
Put together page 8 (monkey and bear already made)
Session 10:
Finalise everything

10. Finish off all pages

11. Health and safety:
Your health and safety and that of those around you is very important. Just like in industry, an accident could prevent you from
working. Whilst we don’t work in a highly dangerous environment, there are still risks. Some are short term, such as trips and
spillages whilst others, such as long term damage to eyesight or back problems, may affect you much later in life.
Consider the risks based on the activities you will be undertaking during the project. Explain how you could prevent them from
happening.
Ensure you reference appropriate pieces of legislation, design to protect people at work.
Health and Safety Issue How can you prevent it?
Tripping over bags and chairs in the classroom.
To prevent it ensure all bags are under the desks and
chairs are under the tables when not in use.
Straining your eyes from looking at the computer screen.
Take a few minutes away from the computer, like in the
display screen equipment regulations 1992.
Wires around computers or on the floor. Ensure all wires are tucked away, or behind computers.

12. Back ache from the chairs.
Make sure it’s an adjustable care being used at the
computer.
Electrocution from drinking around the computers.
To prevent this don’t drink near the computers or near
any wires.