The document provides planning details for a digital graphic narrative project. It includes considerations for costs, available resources, quantity, audience/market, quality factors, codes of practice, regulations, copyright, ethical issues, and a production schedule. Health and safety risks like eyestrain, back problems, and tripping hazards are identified along with preventative measures grounded in relevant legislation.

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:
In the production of my book there shouldn’t be any costs as I am doing it all on Photoshop and using what is
already available and not having to purchase any other equipment. But if I was to think of this in a wider
context such as industry I may have to think about the cost of production and what it may cost to employ an
illustrator for my book an in some cases may have to pay royalties for the story.
Available resources:
Resources that are available to me for this project is the computer and all the software that is on that
computer such as Photoshop, and PowerPoint and Word to help me to spell check and plan. Other things that
I have available to me is the internet where I can access pictures for inspiration and sites like DaFont. Other
things that are available to me to use is hardware such as a camera and a scanner.

2. Quantity:
I think that my product is the sort of book that would get reproduced in the 1000’s rather than being a limited
edition sort of book. The reason I think this is because I would a lot of children to be able to enjoy it rather
than a select few. I think doing it this way would make more money also which means I would be able to
funnel this profit into my other books or products that I might produce.
Audience and Target Market:
The audience and target market for my children’s book is children in the age range of 3-5. I want my book to
be gender neutral because I want to keep the audience as wide as possible. The social group that I want to
aim my book at is people and families in the ABC1 category and these are the people that can afford luxuries
for their children such as books. The geodemographic of my book would be aimed at people in English
speaking countries as this is what the language of my book is going to be, such as the UK, America, Canada,
Australia etc, aimed mainly at the UK with the English spelling of words.
Quality Factors:
Something that I would need to think about regarding the quality of my book is using the production method
that I am best at and avoiding at all costs the ones that I cannot do, for instance I am not good at illustration.
Another factor effecting quality is the amount of effort and time that I am willing to put in as the more effort and
time would mean the better my product. Another thing relating to time is turning up to all my lessons
punctually as I need as much time as possible on it.
Codes of Practice:
According to the Publishers code of practice, a publisher cannot cancel a contract without good reason. Good
reason for cancelling a contract is if the writer is not working to the agreed time constraints so this means I
would have to work promptly and to the agreed time. They can also cancel a contract if the level of production
is not as expected so my work would have to be of a high quality. And the publisher will not publish work if he
believes it is illegal. The publisher should also sometimes offer financial help in order to ensure that the work
is of a high quality, this would be good if I was a real author that didn’t have a lot of money for production but
had good ideas.

3. Regulation:
Books such as pop up books could be classed as a toy and I would have to comply to the Toy Safety Directive
2009/48/EC if sold on the European market. For this reason I will not be creating a pop up book as there is a
lot of health and safety regulations to comply to. Something else to think about is if my book would contain
content which would fall under the obscene publications act 1959, but this will not apply in my book as I will
not contain any material in my book which would be deemed obscene I do not believe.
Copyright:
This is something that I may have to think about as I am using inspiration from already existing work on the
internet, I would have to make sure that I make the characters very different from what I get my inspiration
from as to avoid copyright infringement. If I was to take anything right from the internet and put it in my work I
would have to find out if there was copyright on it and if there was I would have to ask for permission to use it
and possibly pay royalties on the image for every book it was used in.
Ethical Issues:
There are not really any ethical issues that I should have to deal with in my book, as I do not represent any
religion or race really in my book. I do not believe that children would find my book scary. One thing I might
have to consider is when on the last page of the book where you see two slices of toast as some children may
work out that this could have been the slice of bread. But I still do not think that this should fall under any
ethical issues.

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?
The Internet Yes
A computer and the needed software Yes
A scanner No Ask Dave if we can use it
Fonts No Go on DaFont and find the fonts that I would require
Character inspiration and backgrounds No Look on the internet for some inspiration
A camera No Go and ask Garry if I can book one out

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:
Rotoscope my loaf of bread characters general shape done and have him looking like an actual
character I can use in my book.
Make my bird character using aspects of the shape task for the page that you see it in and the tree that
it sits in using rotoscoping and the shape task.
Session 2:
Make my duck character and the pond that it sits in for the 1 page that it is on using rotoscoping and the
shape task.
Find inspiration for the dog character and start to create some of the views that you will see it in.

6. Session 3:
Create some more angles that I would see my bread character in and try to develop it.
Session 4:
Find inspiration for backgrounds for my book and start to create the Kitchen using the cut out filter and
shapes.
Finish the kitchen and create the first page of my book putting all the aspects of it together.
Session 5:
Create the 2nd page of book using the background of the first page but this time adding the loaf of bread
character in for the first time.
Start on 3rd page of book by creating the house in the corner of the page and a few of the trees.
Session 6:
Finish page 3 inserting the duck in the pond and the bird in the tree and creating the background.

7. Start page 4 by inserting the loaf of bread character and the duck in the pond. Finish that page as there
is not lot to do.
Finish page 5, all I really need to create is the background.
Session 7:
Finish page 6 using the same background as the page before and adding in my face on view of the loaf
of bread. Create a few of the trees using the same technique to make the trees.
Start page 7 by altering my loaf of bread to be looking at the dog.
Session 8:
Finish page 7 by including the dog and a few of the trees and the same background that I have already
created.

8. Session 9:
Finish page 8 using same background as the 3rd page and have the loaf of bread riding the dog.
Finish page 9 using the same background as I used for page 1 just put my loaf of bread on the work
surface.
Session 10:
Finish page 10, create 2 slices of bread and a butter tub using rotoscoping and the colour range tool.
Use the rest of my time available to go back and make the needed corrections.

9. 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?
Computers may have wires hanging around.
Make sure that all wires are tied behind the computer.
Most of these points will apply to the Health and Safety at
Work Act 1974.

10. Possible eyestrain.
Make sure to take regular breaks from looking at the
computer screen for 5 minutes as suggested by the
Display Screen Regulations 1992.
Possible back problems
Make sure to have good posture and sit in the chair
correctly, try not to slouch.
Having open bottles of fluid near electrical equipment
Put water in a sealed container in a bag away from
equipment.
Leaving bags around the class room
Make sure bags are under a desk out of the way to
prevent tripping and accidents from happening.