Graphic Narrative Evaluation

Use this template to help you evaluate your project.

You should give specific details about your work.

You should provide both written and visual examples to explain your project.

You should find areas to praise in your work. Be specific about why you think they are good or why you are proud of them.

You should also find areas that could be improved. Look for areas that you could make better if you went back to them. Be specific about what you would improve.

Add additional slides as you need to. Don’t be restricted by what is here.

Any blank slides should be deleted before submission.

Does your final product reflect your original intentions?

• Compare your planning/digital flat plans/ storyboards to your final product

My final product does reflect my original intentions with some parts of the story, like the environment, changed. I think that my planning did help when I was making the pages, but some parts I just changed on the spot.

How well have you constructed your images?

• How well have you constructed your images? You could talk about the overall visual appearance and well as the use of texture and colour.

I’ve constructed my images mainly on the spot, since my flat plans only really had where the characters would be stood and what they would be near. The colours I used in most of the pages are fairly dark, as most of my story is set during the night, and only two pages are set during the day and have brighter colours.

How well have you used text to anchor your images

• You should talk about the combination of words, images and text.

I think that my text anchors my text very well, as the text clearly matches what’s happening and can show what might have happened in the time space between each page.

Is your product suitable for your audience?

• Reference your proposal• Give an audience profile and describe

suitability in reference to content

I think that my product is suitable for my audience because I followed my proposal to make sure that I didn’t go off course and make my book too obscene. I also checked my proposal to make sure that I followed the main story and made sure that all my pages were in the right order.

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

• Reference specific tools you used with images

The tool that I probably used most was the Lasso tool, which I used to create my characters/environment. What I liked about it was that it was easy to cut out part of the image that I needed, but what I didn’t like was that sometimes it didn’t accurately cut out the part of the image that I wanted. Another tool that I used quite a lot was the Eyedropper Tool to select the colour of the image that I cut out, I didn’t like that sometimes it didn’t select the right shade of colour.

What do you like/dislike about how your final product looks?

I like that my final product reflects my flat plans and follows the story set in my proposal. I also like that my final product

One thing that I don’t like is how some of my characters are positioned, because I thought that the position would work when I took the picture, but when I when to rotoscope it, it didn’t work as well as the way I wanted it too.

One way that rotoscoping my images did work for me was changing the colour of the image, since the part of the image that I was changing was on a separate layer, it was easy to change the colour to what I wanted.

Why did you include the content you used?

• Images, fonts, effects, colours

I included the images is used because they were directly related to the time that my book was set in as well as including the items that my characters would need, such as Robin Hood’s bow and arrows.

I used a certain font because I think that it closely resembles the format of writing that was used in medieval times.

I used fairly dark colours because most of my story is set during the night and the background, at least, needed to be fairly dark so that people would know and not have to figure it out for themselves.

I used the Stroke effect on each of my images, so that people would be able to tell each part of the image apart and not think that it was all one piece.

With this image, I used darker colours on the background to set it apart from the characters and so that people wouldn’t struggle to tell my characters apart. The colours I used for Robin Hood were to make him seem like he lives in the forest and knows how to blend in. I used the Stroke effect to give everything an outline so that people could tell different parts from each other.

With my character, I used a colour scheme that would match the environment what my story is set in.

What signs, symbols or codes have your used in your work?

• Choices of colour, style, locations, character design and tone all give additional meaning to your work.

I chose mainly green and brown colours because my story takes place in a forest which is also why I made the colours of my main character the same as well. The location I chose was a forest because it worked best with the story and is also the location from the original story.

The characters in my story were inspired by the original characters, but I’ve changed a few things about them, like their appearance and personalities.

Since most of my story takes place at night, this could give a hidden meaning to the story, stating that it might have a dark theme to it.

What representations can be found in your work?

• How are men, women or children shown in your work? Does your work feature different ages, races, social groups or religions? Does a lack of any variety of character types create its own representation?

My work does have a lack of variety of characters since all my characters are male and white, only because I when I was creating the characters, I was only focused on making them rather then focusing on their race and gender.

The only representation of religion in my product is the church in few of the pages, this wasn’t intentional as I was only looking for something to fill the space and would fit within the medieval times.

What style have you employed in your products?

• Discuss influences/ existing products• What visual style does your work have and

why did you choose it?

One thing, other then the original story, that influenced me with my story was the hit TV show, Arrow, which influenced the attitude for my characters and how they’re seen by other characters in the book.

The type of style that I’ve used in my work is cartoon style. The reason for this was because of the way my test page turned out and I liked the way it looked and was easy for me to redo on all my pages.

What were the strengths and weaknesses of the pre-production and planning

• How did the planning and research help• How well did you manage your time• Reference specific examples

Some of the strengths of my pre-production and planning was that I knew the scenes that I wanted to make and what exactly was going to be included. Other strengths were that I also knew what characters I wanted in which scene. Another strength was that I was able to plan where everything would be within each scene and make changes to them if it were needed.

Some of the disadvantages were that not all of my flat plans worked when it came to actually making the scene, or not all of my characters were in the right positions. Another weakness is that I couldn’t

Historical and cultural context

• How does your work compare to what has come before? What other similar products have existed in the past? What current products exist?

My book’s based around the original story of Robin Hood which some of the character’s appearances changed as well as their personalities. Part of my book could be compared to Arrow since my characters aren't like they are in any other versions.