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: For this project I need to consider what the cost of my resources will be. For my illustrations I will need to think about how much pencils/colourings pencils will cost and how much I need to buy the right amount of pages I need. I will also need to think how many copies of my book I want and calculate how much that would cost to make all them copies and how much it will cost to get the copies to all the shops in different places.

Available resources:The resources I have available to me that I will need to use for this project are the internet, Photoshop and children’s books that are already for sale or have been for sale for years. I can use the internet to look up ideas of how to design my illustrations and see how the characters of my story have been represented in different adaptions of the original story. I could also use existing children’s books to help me choose what design will use for the Illustrations and how they have set out their book pages. I will use Photoshop to create my Illustrations and it will help me set out my pages in a way that looks presentable and readable for the children.

Quantity:My children’s book will be a special addition book as my story is based on the fairytale Rapunzel but with the story changed a little so it isn’t the same as the other Rapunzel books that have been published for kids. Because my book will be limited addition, there will only be around 400-500 copies of my book available in store.

Audience and Target Market:My target audience will be children aged 5-11 and I will be aiming mostly at females. I chose this age range because younger children will just be learning to read and have it red to them. But as they get older they will be able to read it themselves so I want to aim it 5-11 year olds so it will still be interesting to them when they can read it themselves. I think my book will appeal more to females as the main character is a princess, which mostly appeals to younger girls and not boys. I won’t be including the prince in my story, which won’t appeal to young boys, as there won’t be a brave prince to save the day. I will be aiming to release my book in mainly the UK, maybe USA, as they create a bigger audience, plus my book is in the English language so I will need to release in the biggest English speaking countries.Quality Factors:I will need to make sure my book is published at its best quality. To do this I will need to work hard and spend a lot of time creating the Illustrations and making sure that they are at their best quality. I will need to make sure the equipment I use is used at its best quality and that when I don’t rush when using the equipment.

Codes of Practice:When creating and publishing books as an author, I need to follow the PA Code Of Practice. In this code of practice I need to make sure that the contract for my publisher I need to make it clear and I need to honour it. I need to make sure I keep to the time scale I give the publisher otherwise they could terminate my contract and find another book to publish. They could also terminate my contract if the standard isn’t up to their expectation or there is defamation or Illegality within my book. The code of practice also says I need to make the terms reasonable in the contract for the rights of the book. I need to give fair rights to anyone that I use for my book; i.e. Publisher, Illustrator, Author.

Regulation:Before I publish my story, I need to look at The Obscene Publications Act 1959 and Equality Act 2010 to make sure none of my work breaks any laws of these acts. If I’m thinking of publishing my book around Europe I will have to follow the Toy Safety Directive 2009/48/EC to make sure that if my book can be interacted with, I need to make sure the book is safe for small children and will not cause them harm of any type.

Copyright:When you’re creating something that is based off a well know idea, you make sure none of the work is copyrighted. My book doesn’t break any copyright as my story is based on a fairytale that was made years ago which means the copyright rules don’t apply because the creator of the tale has been dead for longer than 70 years. If my book did have copyright within it I would either have to ask the original creator of that part if I could use it in my work. If the answer is no or I don’t want to waste time waiting for their answer, I could just change the bit(s) of the story that are seen as copyright and make it more of my own work.

Ethical Issues:I need to make sure that if my characters are representing any culture that they are represented truthfully and that they have not been made up in anyway. This is in case adults read the story that they don’t get offended by what I right about a culture because it isn’t the truth. I think my work doesn’t need any further investigating regarding Ethical issues because my characters aren’t representing any specific culture.

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?

 Pens Yes  

 Paper  Yes  

 Photoshop  Yes  

 The Internet  Yes  

 Existing children’s books  No  I will need to go to a shop and buy some exiting books.

     

     

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:

 In session 1 I will create my characters and make them so I different angles of the characters on different pages

 

 

 

Session 2:

In session 2, if I need to, I will finish off my characters

 I will then create the sceneries on the pages one page at a time.

 

 

Session 3:

 If needed, in session 3, I will finish off the scenery and make it look as realistic as possible

 I will then start on placing the characters and scenery together depending on the page I’m doing.

 

 

Session 4:

 In session 4 I will start putting pages 1 and 2 together along with the text I have planned for those pages.

 

 

 

Session 5:

 In session 5 I will create pages 3 and 4 with characters, scenery and text.

 

 

 

Session 6:

 In session 6, I will create pages 5 and 6 with characters, scenery and text.

 

 

 

Session 7:

 Session 7 will be used to create pages 7 and 8

 

 

 

Session 8:

 Session 8 will be used to create pages 9 and 10

 

 

 

Session 9:

 In session 9, I will create pages 11 and 12.

 

 

 

Session 10:

 I will go over every page and see if everything it so as I like it. If not I will do changes to make me satisfied.

 

 

 

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?

 Sitting at a desk for a long time looking at a computer for too long.

 Taking advice from the Display Screen Equipment Regulations 1992, You will need to take significant breaks every hour and a half to help focus your eyes and move your back. Each break should be at least 10 minutes as in this time your eyes will focus more and you will be ready to work some more.

 Wires going across the room that you could trip up on.

 Make sure that if you are using a cable that you are closest to the plug socket as possible to prevent wires running across the room and becoming a trip hazard.

 Using water near a computer

 Using the Health and Safety At Work Act 1974, you will need to make sure when you are drinking water that you are away from the computer, and make sure you put your drink in your bag or put it away from the computer so it doesn’t spill on the computer.

 Using harmful substances

 The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health regulations covers hazardous substances like chemicals, fumes, gases and vapours. If the packaging of equipment has hazard symbols on them, then you must be careful and be fully prepared for using that substance. If not, you should not use it in case it harms you or anyone around you.