Assignment 1 Completion: Putting together a well designed Creative Treatment.

[Adam, Amir, Dior, Chris, Riel, Nathan, Zee]

Session objective: Be able to present ideas for an Original Graphic Narrative as a carefully designed pitch document.

Final hand in hand in is this Wednesday.

Industry example of pages from a Creative Pitch for document for a game. 

All pages are designed to reflect the visual style of game while also presenting the creative content.

Below is a quick reminder of the brief:

Produce a clear and CAREFULLY STYLED* presentation (powerpoint etc) describing your idea for a Graphic Narrative. This should include:

• A front cover page with the tile of your Graphic Narrative, Unit name/number and your name.
• Story outline
• Character Designs & descriptions 
• Examples of background imagery / settings for story.
• Market research into other comparable Graphic Narrative products aimed at a similar audience. This should include comparison of how your product aims to mirror/contrast existing products. AND links to the research sources which you have used.
• Details of resources needed for production (e.g. construction materials, equipment etc).

* CAREFULLY STYLED.  A Creative Treatment is presentation used in industry to pitch for funding. Your presentation should make use of background imagery, colours, fonts etc to present your Graphic Narrative idea in an exciting way. Overall the presentation should have visual style that suits your theme and audience.

Digi Arts Group A: Session Targets for Monday 6th November

Titus & Daniel (Working with Izzy): 

Session Objective:
Be able to use storyboarding techniques to plan your graphic narrative.

Task 1: 
Create a bullet point list of the scenes which make up your story.

ADVICE: Each scene should correspond to a frame of your comic book / graphic novel.
Your bullet point for each scene should explain what 'action' is happening, where it is set and include any 'dialogue' necessary.

Task 2:
Begin to plan out the character positions  and camera angles and which you will use for each scene within a storyboard template.

ADVICE: It is fine to use simple stick figure drawing for this if you want to. The aim is to think clearly about the shots needed to tell the story in an exciting way.

Akram, Aden, Christopher, Amir, Riel, Adam 

(Working with Mark).

Session Objective: 

Be able to generate ideas for your own original 'Graphic Narrative".

Task 1:

Take part in a short group discussion of Graphic Narrative examples and key terms.

(Key terms: Graphic Narrative, Comic Book, Graphic Novel, Children's Book, Audience,  Characters, Protagonist, Antagonist)

Task 2:

Using physical examples and those on the Digi arts blog to inspire you, create a brain-storm of potential story topics for your own graphic narrative.

Ext: Add ideas about characters and audiences to your favourite story topic ideas.

ADVICE: Produce your brain-storm as a word / powerpoint or google doc and share it to both Digi Arts tutors at the end of the session.  ( mark.anthony.brown@wac.co.uk   jane.maxwell@wac.co.uk )

LINKS TO INSPRINIG EXAMPLES ON THE DIGIARTS BLOG:

Rap Comic

Rap personas and comic book heroes

Music Inspired Graphic Narrative

Unit 55 Graphic Narrative - Week 4

You have two weeks remaining to complete your first assignment.(A 'Creative Treatment' pitching your graphic narrative idea).

Your focus this week should be to complete at least one character design AND to produce imagery which gives a taste of the visual style that you will be aiming for.

What you should have ready by the end if this week:

• At least 1 image showing your character in a suitable location (green screen / printed background)
• At least 1 example of this imagery with any filters or style treatments applied.
• Examples of fonts or other graphic items that form part of your intended style.

Monday PM: Session Targets

LO1: Be able to finalise an original character design.

LO2: Be able to source suitable background imagery using online resources.

TECH TIP :PRINTED BACKGROUNDS:

If you are planning to print a background to photograph your character in front of (e.g because you want to use atmospheric lighting) the source file that you use should be as large as possible. You can use the google search tools to make sure you are only looking at large images. See example below. Click on an image to check the pixels dimensions to see which image is largest (e.g 2560x1600 on the bottom example) This example should scale up to A2 without becoming too blurry.

Once you have chosen an image (or images) put them in a folder on your G-drive and also email / share them to your tutor for printing. If you send them today we will try and print them for you to use tomorrow.

 

Unit 33 Stop Motion Production: Assignment 1

Use this link to see guide slides for session 9: Getting started on Assignment 1

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1ti8BamV6QSZlkyWEN0bGhMMVk

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Use the link below to view a summary of the 3 assignments for this unit including handout dates and hand in deadlines.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1ti8BamV6QSa2RCLUNhcnRRZzQ

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Use the link below to view the brief for Assignment 1.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1ti8BamV6QSa2RCLUNhcnRRZzQ

Session 10 | Pitch presentation & Submission of Assignment 1

Click on this link to see guide slides on what to put in your pitch presentation and how to hand in your work for assessment.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1ti8BamV6QSSHJJYlFfNGhheVk

Session 9 | Guide slides: Visuals

This is a link to the guide slides for this session.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1ti8BamV6QSWXlScFRKT0VVSFU

Image Filtering Sites

Here are some links to useful online image filtering sites.  These seem to work faster and more reliably than some of the Ipad apps. We also have a new app on the Ipads called 'Devinci' which is up and WORKING :).

The sites don't LOOK great .. but they seem to work well...

https://www.befunky.com

http://www.fotor.com

http://www169.lunapic.com

Session 8 | Storyline

Copy and paste this link to a browser window to see guide slides for this session.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1ti8BamV6QSTXJHMThmWWxlbmM

Session 7 | Assignment 1 Graphic style experiments

Copy and past the link below into a new browser tab to see guide slides for session 7.



https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1ti8BamV6QSck8wb3ZlOXpxS3c

Session 6 | Assignment 1 Idea Generation

Copy and paste this link to your browser to see the tasks for this session.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1ti8BamV6QSajRkM2lmeDgwVms

Session 5 | Preparation for Assignment 1

Guide Slides:

These are the guide slides for session 5.
They tell you what you need to do this session and give you some examples.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1ti8BamV6QSeWRYcHRmZno2UE0



Assignment 1 Brief:

This is the assignment brief which tells you what you need to produce / hand in. It also gives you some links to useful resources to get you started:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1ti8BamV6QSWWVoNF9FV0hvRkU



Unit 55 Student friendly scheme of work:

This document shows you the topics to be covered each week and when assignments start and finish.


https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1ti8BamV6QSX3V1cW85VUk1NDQ