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:As I am creating this book at college, the costs will be lower than if I was actually publishing my book. I am provided with a computer and all the materials I need are installed on to the computer. I will be using Adobe Photoshop to create my book and will not need any other resources. The only cost I will need to consider is ho much it will cost to print my final book.Available resources:I will only need three resources in order to create my final product. I will need a computer, Adobe Photoshop and images from the internet in order to rotoscope certain features or poses for my characters.Quantity:As my book will be for children and is an adaptation of an existing story, if I were to sell my book, I think I would start by selling my books in the hundreds and if it sells well then I would consider changing to the quantity to thousands. Personally, I don’t think mass market would be a good idea for my book as there is a lot of competition for children’s books, for example; the Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck book sold 3,010,093 in 2013 and was the biggest selling book in that year.Audience and Target Market:My age target group is 6 to 8 year olds as there will be a few sentences on each text page and I think a younger audience will struggle to read and understand the story and an older audience may think the book is too childish for them, but the age range 6 to 8 year olds was my initial target audience. Even though the story I

have chosen has two leading character who are male, I will not be gender specifying my book as any gender can enjoy reading stories. The geodemographic of my audience will mainly be English-speaking countries, which can be expanded to North America and Australia. Also, my book could be translated into various languages.Quality Factors:The quality of my book will depend on my personal experience of reading children’s books, and also what influenced me to choose the specific style and the actual story. I have proof read and finalised a draft version for my script for the story and have planned detailed and annotated designs for the images that will be used in my book, to make sure my book will be as naturalistic as possible. Also, I will make sure my book is as consistent as possible.Codes of Practice:The Publisher’s Code of Practice is a legal document covering how an author interacts with the publishers and vice versa. Section 2 states “the contract should be clear about ownership of the copyright”. This means any of the author’s work is theirs and theirs only, no one else can take it as their own. Section 6 states “the publisher must handle manuscripts…keep the author informed of progress.” The publisher must be made aware of any activity happening with the author’s scripts and how much progress the author is making.

Regulation:Any books falling under the definition of a toy will have to be complaint with the new Toy Safety Directive 200948/EC if sold in the European market as younger children could injure themselves if parts of the book are sticking out or are very sharp. Other acts associated with these activities are the Obscene Publications Act 1959 and the Equality Act 2010.

Copyright:For my book, there isn’t an author so therefore my work is out of copyright. If I decide to use other people’s images while creating characters, I will have to consider the copyright of those specific images. Fonts will need to be copyrighted, even though I will be using them for personal use only.

Ethical Issues:Ethical issues might need to be limited in my story as my target audience will be too young to understand certain things.

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 will need 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?

Photoshop Yes Open the application on my Mac at college.Photographs Yes Open the application on my Mac at college.Script Yes Open the document on my Mac at college.

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:Jack face and costumeGiant face and costumeSession 2:Mother face and costume

Wife face and costume

Cow detail

Giant castle

Session 3:

Beanstalk

Gold coins

Magic beans

Jack HouseSession 4:

Jack House

Giant Kitchen

Giant Kitchen

Jack Kitchen

Session 5:

Jack Kitchen

Depending on how much progress made, go back to characters and make little details

Same as above

Same as aboveSession 6:

 Text page 1

Text page 2

Text page 3

Text page 4

Session 7:

 Text page 5

Text page 6

Text page 7

Text page 8Session 8:

Text page 9

Text page 9

Text page 10

Depending on progress, correct and finalise houses and characters

Session 9:

 Same as above

  Same as above

 Same as above

  Same as aboveSession 10:

  Same as above

  Same as above

  Same as above

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?COSHH (Control of Substances to Hazardous Health regulations)

Don’t use substances such as glue, for longer than five minutes to avoid any consequences.

Display Screen regulations 1992Take regular breaks every hour or half hour to avoid back ache and eye strain.

Safe practices Using safety precautions when in a studio and workshop.