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 only costs needed as extra for this project would be for the purchase of a small graphics tablet which
could cost about £50-£100.
Available resources:
All the things is need are available to use, these includes a mac, a graphics tablet, scanners, cameras, pens
and paper, online images.
Quantity:
I plan to make the book with 1,000s of copied as opposed to 100s as I feel like a common child’s book would
be a bit cheaper and my audience would rather pay a little bit less and therefore I would make more profit as I
sold more.
2. Audience and Target Market:
My main audience for the book is around 4-8 as I am planning it as a bedtime story style which can then be
used to help them learn to read. I did not plan on orientating it to a certain gender as I did not feel it appealed
more to either. I targeted it also for parents that like to teach their children about mythological creatures and
like telling them appropriate versions of fairy tales.
Quality Factors:
I aim to write down any ideas I come up with randomly when outside of class so I can have a few more drafted
options so that I can find the best designs. I plan to keep my attendance at 100% to try not to miss any class
time as this could put me behind my schedule and make me stressed about the quality as it could drop if I
have to rush any of the pages.
Codes of Practice:
The code ‘The publisher should inform the author clearly about opportunities for amendment of the work in the
course of production.’ States that the parties must keep in close communication in order to get the work to the
highest standard as not doing this can cause excess expenses, which could have been avoided.
The code ‘Above all, the publisher must recognise the importance of co-operation with the author in an
enterprise in which both are essential.’ This means that the author must get their acknowledgement for all the
work they have achieved and all the valuable input they have had on the work and get credited for it.
Not abiding by the codes of practice you can come into contact with legal and financial issues over things
such as copyright, or a contract cut short/cancelled.
Regulation:
The regulation undergone by the books must abide by the codes in the obscene publications act and also by
the equality act 2010, this means that the book must not cause offence to any specific minority based on race,
religion, appearance and disabilities as this is inappropriate, especially for a children’s book as this could
influence them in later years to discriminate these minorities, or if they part of a mentioned minority they could
be on the receiving end of prejudice and discrimination.
3. Copyright:
If following the story of a modern fairy tale there is a chance that it is under copyright, for older tales there is
likely either no original copyright or the copyright has ‘timed out’ as the writer has been deceased many years.
My book should not contain any copyright controversies, as I have not taken my book from an existing tale, I
have instead taken it from a myth and adapted it into a story of my own.
Another copyright problem would be the use/copying of existing cartoon characters as even when editing
them they are still much alike to the original character and is in no way your own. I plan to use actual
photographs of my settings and characters to avoid this problem.
Ethical Issues:
There are possible ethical issues that can arise such as stereotypical/false representation of a certain race or
culture and sensitivity must be applied when working with a different culture to your own and research may
need to be done in order to more accurately represent them in order to not cause any offence.
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?
Mac Yes
4. Graphics Tablet Yes
Photoshop Yes
Internet Access Yes
Pens/Pencils Yes
Paper (A3/A4) Yes
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: Tuesday Morning – 2 lessons
Check Over Pages 2-3 which were created on the test days
5. Finalise Kasa design for page 4
Create fire and smoke effects
Finish off page 4 by piecing all bit together
Session 2: Wednesday Morning - 2 lessons
Create background for Page 5 – hills, mountains, pathway
Create outside of Dojo
Create cherry blossoms
Create Foxes and human for Page 5 – Remodel past foxes into positions
Session 3: Wednesday Afternoon – 2 lessons
Create background for Page 6-8
Mountian + Shadows
6. Design Owls for above Tenkos cave
Session 4: Thursday Afternoon – 3 lessons
Create outside of village house
Create Elder and Young child characters which appear on this page
Add extras onto scene – Cherry blossom tree, bushes, pathways
Session 5: Friday Morning – 2 lessons
Create Page 1 background – mountains, hills
Create more cherry blossom trees
Add bridge in foreground in front of dojo
7. Add animals and other small details
Session 6: Tuesday Morning – 2 lessons
Edit Page 6-8 Background for use Page 10
Add built structure to the cave – traditional Japanese ‘gateway’ style bright red
Add gifts of food offerings to the scene
Add villagers onto the scene around a happy Tenko
Session 7: Wednesday Morning – 2 lessons
Place all pages in order on Photoshop in order to check consistency
Edit perspectives and length of shot to add variety to the book
Session 8: Wednesday Afternoon – 2 lessons
8. Write text pages
Add designs to text pages – Cherry blossoms
Vary blossoms by adding small narrative into them – talking about fire with fire petals etc
Session 9: Thursday Afternoon – 3 lessons
Double check spelling and grammar in all of the text pages
Add any details and corrections necessary to all pages – such as colour consistency
Add hand drawn textures to the foxes white fur to add volume
Session 10: Friday Morning
Add any details and corrections necessary to all pages
9. Place final images into PowerPoint to read through the book and make sure everything is completed
Add in anything missing or correct any past mistakes
Health and Safety:
Health and Safety Issue How can you prevent it?
Tripping over on bags, chairs, wires
Keep bags under tables, push chairs in and make sure
no wires are tailing over the floor.
Electric Shocks
Keep all liquids away from the computers to minimise
possibility of spillages.
10. Eye Strain (Display Screen Equipment Regulations)
Have a 5-10 minute break every hour to adjust and rest
eyes, also adjust screen brightness as required.
Back/neck ache and RSI (Display Screen Equipment
Regulations)
Make sure an adjustable chair is available, the screen
angle is adjustable and that regular breaks are taken.
Long Term risks such as serious eye strain, blood clots
etc
Ensure to have a 5 minute break every hour to look away
from the screen to adjust your eyes and walk about in
order to get muscles moving and blood flowing correctly.
