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Task 10: Graphic Narrative Evaluation: 1-Does Your Final Product Reflect Your Original Intentions?

The document discusses a student's graphic narrative evaluation. It covers how well their final product reflected their original intentions, how well they constructed images, how text anchors images, and the suitability of the product for its audience. The student analyzes the techniques used like tools in Photoshop and what they liked about the techniques.

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Task 10: Graphic Narrative Evaluation: 1-Does Your Final Product Reflect Your Original Intentions?

The document discusses a student's graphic narrative evaluation. It covers how well their final product reflected their original intentions, how well they constructed images, how text anchors images, and the suitability of the product for its audience. The student analyzes the techniques used like tools in Photoshop and what they liked about the techniques.

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Task 10: Graphic Narrative Evaluation

1-Does your final product reflect your original intentions?


My final product does reflect my original intentions but not fully. When I did my
digital flat plan, I made it clear where the text will go. Once it came to doing the
actual book, I had to move the text around due to how the text went over
different colours and different parts of the background. A lot of my text is now in
the sky or on the road. I also had to change some of the details in the text such as
bold words and having all the text together. In one of the pages I put text in the
top and bottom to give an effect of a paused moment. The characters are in the
right place compared to the flat plan.
My final product was quite a bit different from my storyboard. The story is the
same, but the placing of the characters is different and some of the scenes have
completely changed. When I made this choice to make them different from my
storyboard, I thought it was because it looked better than how it did on
storyboard. When I did my storyboard that was suppose to be my original
intention of how each page would turn out.
My original script was really different from my final script. I used the same event
but I didnt use the same wording. I had to change the lines so its more suitable
for my audience. I couldnt keep the original script because it would have been
copyright and I didnt have all the characters from the original movie.
I created a few test pages, which I actually ended up using some of them; I
couldnt use all of them due to different angles and placing on the page. In my
test pages I created some of the background as well as Herbie. The Backgrounds
became very useful and I used Herbies test page on the first page.
(add examples and evalute)

2-How well have you constructed your images?


I think I have constructed my image pretty well. The quality of each page is
decent and I am impressed by the outcome of this piece of work. I think the way
the characters have developed their realistic features was definitely through the
texture that I got on Photoshop through the color range tool, which actually took
the real texture out of the real car model. I didnt do this to just my characters, I
did it to my background. Only thing I didnt use texture on was possibly the tree
or the curbs. I tried to keep the colours natural and not too bright or too funky
so it can be more realistic. My main colours were green, blue, grey, white and
black. Even the texture was always a little bit lighter than the colour behind it. 0
(talk about what you liked about your book etc.)

3-How well have you used text to anchor your


images?
I think my text fits in perfectly with the pictures. In
this page, the bold words give the audience an effect
to something disasters that has occurred. BOOM OH
NO and in the background there is a car accident with
Crazy Dave. This will give the children more interest I
the story. Also it means that my text doesnt stay the
same and they wont get bored. I have gone over my
combination of words over at least 10 times to make

sure they are suitable for children. To double check it was okay, I read it to my 5year-old cousin, and he loved it. Using the wrong words can lead the children to
ask questions and their parents might not want them to understand something
that is older than their age. I think my text makes it clear of what is happening in
each certain scene. Although my background clearly shows what is happening,
the text just adds on a bit more understanding of what is occurring. I tried to
make sure that my text was placed in areas of one colour or two colours near
enough the same shade. This will benefit the audience, because unlike young
adolescences and adults, text being put over different shades of colours can
confuse them. Their eyes wont function as well.
(describe pages and various number of text there is)

4-Is your product suitable for your audience?


I think my product is suitable for my target audience because everything my
book contains has been restricted for that age group. Referring back to my
proposal, I said I would like my book to be suitable for children age 2-6 years due
to how there will be less writing and more
pictures. I have had to add a bit more text
more than what was actually intended. I
had to do this because with one or two
sentences, it wouldnt have been clear
enough to understand what is really going
on. I have tried to make each picture
contain as much colour and different images as possible. When I started the book
there was no trees, but later on I started to use trees to get the pictures looking
different. I believe my book will be read by more boys than girls due to the main
subject of the book, which is racing and winning. Girls may be interested in this
book just because of the end of the book, there is a hint of a love story theme
but I dont reckon it will be enough to be targeting girls to read this book because
in a traditional way, girls love happy ending but maybe not when it comes to
cars. Children ages 2-6 years usually like a little adventure, a little bit more to the
story rather than the usual prince and princess, or the true love kiss. They like
colours; they want to learn something new. At that age, they still think that
characters in a narrative can be anything even an object or food, they get more
entertained by objects that come to life and have a story. When a child likes a
narrative at this age, there is an 89% that they will remember the narrative for
the rest of their life. You cant include anything in a narrative that would be hard
to understand because of how their intellectual minds and language hasnt fully
developed yet. At the age of two, no doubt they will need parental help to read
the book, but at the age of six they may not need any help depending on how
quick your child develops. I think 10 pages is a suitable story length because then
its not too long or too short, they wont get bored and they wont think that the
story ended too quick. The font was downloaded from the Internet, the reason I
didnt use any of the fonts on Photoshop is because none of them really suited
the theme of the book. Having bold letters in different size means it will attracts
the childs attention more than any normal font.

5-What do you like/dislike about the techniques you have used?

I tried to make the cars look as realistic as possible, which I think has turned out
quite good. I had to use different editing tools in Photoshop to create that real
effect. The following editing tools is what I used:
Polygonal lasso tool
Magic wand tool
Eyedrop tool
Brush and pencil tool
Clone stamp
Paint bucket tool
Rectangle, rounded rectangle, ellipse, and line tools.
Transform wrap, perspective and distort
Blur Gaussian blur
Colour overlay
Gradient overlay
Stroke
Colour range
Linking and merging layers
The polygonal lasso tool is what I used to crop the characters shapes from
around the original image, which took time but it meant I got the right shape and
I didnt have to create it from scratch. I then used paint bucket tool, color overlay
and gradient overlay to create the main body and window colours of each car as
well as the background including the sky, grass and road. To then make each
object stand out more, I used the stroke. The stroke is where a thin or thick line
(depending on what you want) appears at the edge of every item I have selected.
This was helpful because each item looked quite sharp and in the right place.
Some of the stroke lines you can barely see because they are thin but they are
useful. I also used them to create the eyebrows for each character. Using colour
rage, I added texture to my cars and to the backgrounds. This was another useful
tool to make my book look realistic. After pasting the texture on, I used to
eyedrop tool to select the colour of where the texture is suppose to go, for
example, the road. I will use colour range to copy the realistic texture and paste it
on the road, I use eyedrop to select the road colour then I edit the texture a little
bit lighter than the road colour to give it the effect that it is real and not fake.
After that I used transform, warp mostly, to edit my layers more so they are
more in place, so the picture looks right. I used perspective on Herbie the most
so the 53 on the front of Herbie, which gave it the effect that it was stuck on
him, without this tool, it would have looked wrong because it wouldnt be flat on
the car it would of just stood out of the car. I used distort to put the cars in the
right direction on the road, so they look like they are heading the right way. I
then used the rectangle and ellipse, to create the background. The line tool and
the rounded rectangle tool were used to create the eyes and eyebrows for the
characters. This was easy because I then used warp to make sure they were the
perfect shape. I used the clone stamp to copy some of the textures so I wont
need to stretch the texture and make it look fade and bad. The brush and pencil
tool were used to fill in the gaps, for example, between the car body and the
tyres. Gaussian blur was used to softly blur some parts of the characters and the
backgrounds. This gave the effect of a reflection. For example, Herbies
windscreen has a reflection of race tracks which have been blurred just briefly so

you can still tell its suppose to be a reflection. Linking and merging layers helped
me create a flat copy of my characters which meant that each characters is
merged together and can be picked up and dropped into a page and it will all be
in one layer. The magic wand was used to crop certain bits out of a character or a
background.
(write what I disliked and what were the main tools
-remove the main tools from up there^ and put them in a new paragprah and
analyze them and their impact
-then write what I disliked.).

I liked all the techniques I used. They were all very easy and without those
techniques I wouldnt have been able to create the story I have created today.
Even the tiniest technique e.g. hiding layers, was so useful. Each technique made
a difference, which was great. Some techniques I discovered by myself through
looking around Photoshop and trying new things. Other techniques were shown
to me and how to use them in a clear way, but even the techniques that got
shown to me, I then managed to learn more and more about them. The tools that
made a massive impact were Polygonal lasso tool, color overlay, gradient overlay
and

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