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 my project plan to be quite low because I will be doing the work in college and will use a lot of college assets and not a lot of my own which means I don’t need to pay for it. Some examples of equipment of college’s that I can use are camera’s, computers etc…but I may need art pencils and similar things which I will need to pay for.

Available resources:Using resources available to me such as cameras, pens, pencils, paper, computer with programs etc. Allows me to create the story to the best of my ability because I will have s best equipment as possible. I will also have main resources, which I need to complete my work such as electricity.

Quantity:Due to the work being done for college, I will not be producing my book in any large quantities however, once finished and the book is a good, I may produce a trail run and see how that works out and if that goes well then I may produce even more.

Audience and Target Market:The audience and target market are very important and are key to my sales. The book is going to be made for children and in reference to that I need to make the book look as good as possible and most appealing to children so that they will buy the book or they will persuade there parents to buy the book for them. I need to focus and know my audience as much as possible in order to get as most sales as possible.

Quality Factors:I need to make sure that my book is of a very high standard and all the pages look similar and look very presentable and that the book is easy to read. I need to make my book of a very high quality because it will look better and because of that, more people will want to buy the book. When referring to quality, I need to make sure that I don’t rush anything and I spend time on everything that is need to I do not make simple errors such as spelling mistakes.

Codes of Practice:The code of practise is a code, which the author and the publisher agree to; this code of practise involves information on dead lines, quality and standard of work, and the legality of it. Due to me being the author and the publisher, such code of practise I don’t think will be needed but however, I will take quality and deadlines into account when producing my work.

Regulation:My book does not count as a toy so the Toy safety directive 2009/48/EC does not apply to my book, however there might be some very young children who mess around with the book and I must take that into consideration when producing it.

Copyright:Due to me producing a book, which is based off another book, I will need to be very careful about copyright and that fact that I need to change my book so that it is different from the original and is my own work. Things that could be similar between the original and mine could be characters, story, setting etc. And I need to make sure my version of these things are different and are easily separable.

Ethical Issues:When producing my book, I may have a wide target audience, which has a large cultural diversity and is made of different ethical and social groups. Due to my audience maybe having a lot of diversity I need to make sure that my book does not offend or aggravate anyone of a certain social class, religion or race. When producing my book I will always think about due care and consideration when talking about any group or class of people.

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  

 Photoshop and other important production software  Yes  

 Pens, pencils, paper for story related artwork  Yes  

 Camera  No If I need to get use a camera, I can just ask to borrow one for whatever time, which is needed.

Scanner  No I will need to ask to use it but I will need to ask in advance because someone else might be using it when I want to.

     

     

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:

 Try and finish or make a good start on all characters

 Create assets and small details for the story

 

 

Session 2:

Finish all characters and assets ready to be added later

 

 

Session 3:

In the first hour and a half, I will produce the first scene and add characters to it.

 

 

  In the second hour and a half I will produce the second scene and add characters to it.

Session 4:

 In the first hour and a half I will produce the third scene

 

 In the second hour and a half I will produce the fourth scene

Session 5:

 In the first hour and a half I will make the fifth scene

 

 In the second hour and a half I will check over the previous scene’s and make it them as highest quality as possible

Session 6:

  In the first hour and a half I will produce the sixth scene

 

  In the second hour and a half I will produce the seventh scene

Session 7:

 In the first hour and a half I will produce the eighth scene

 

 In the second hour and a half I will produce the ninth scene

Session 8:

In the first hour and a half I will produce the tenth scene.

 

  In the second hour and a half I will check over the previous scenes so that it is as higher quality as possible

 

Session 9:

 I will use this time to read over the book and correct mistakes

 

 

 

Session 10:

 I will use this time to read over the book and correct mistakes

 

 

 

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 wires, bags, chairs etc..

 To prevent it we can be extra careful when around computers and make sure we tuck chairs and bags in a safe place and make sure no wires are trailing across the floor.

 Eye’s hurting when going on the computer to long.

 Under the Display screen equipment regulations 1992, it is recommended to take five-minute breaks every hour so that the eyes are not to focus on a certain thing for too long.

 Parts of body e.g. legs, back, begins to ache.

 Under the Health and safety at work act of 1974 you must not be in the same position for two long and make sure you are in the correct posture to prevent such aches and pains.