This document outlines the planning and considerations for a digital graphic narrative project. It discusses costs, available resources, quantity, audience, quality factors, codes of practice, regulation, copyright, ethical issues, and health and safety. Resources needed for the project are assessed. A production schedule is outlined in 10 sessions, detailing the tasks to be completed in each. Potential health and safety issues like eyestrain, trips, and back problems are addressed, along with preventative measures and relevant legislation.

1. 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 I will have to consider are, the price of a Mac, the cost of purchasing adobe Photoshop to create my
illustrations and unique font with. Another cost to consider would be the cost of printing the pages for my
book.
Available resources:
The resources, which are available to me, are a Mac, graphics tablet, camera, adobe Photoshop, the internet
and a memory storage device to store my work and also allow me to keep back ups of my work incase I lose
one copy.

2. Quantity:
The amount of books I will be producing is a large amount, the reason for this is because my book is not a
limited edition book and I want my product to be sold in different stores as well as just book stores, this is so
that my product can connect with different social classes.
Audience and Target Market:
The audience for my book is 1-10 year olds. The reason I have chosen this age group is because the parents
of the child are likely to read the book to their child, therefore the age range can start from 1 years old.
Quality Factors:
I will make sure that the quality of my book stays at a high standard from the beginning to the end. The reason
behind this is because if a publisher looks at a page of my book and agrees to publish it, however when I
produce the rest of my finished work to them, they are not pleased with the quality of it; they have the right to
cancel the publishing. This means that the quality of my book needs to remain at a high standard throughout.
Codes of Practice:
I will make sure that my book doesn’t breach any copyright infringements. I will do this by creating original
illustrations that are not copying anyone else’s creations. I don’t have to worry about my story breaking
copyright infringements because the story of little red riding hood has been re-written and adapted so many
times that I don’t have to worry about copyright.

3. Regulation:
I will be avoiding any content, which I feel is unsuitable for my target age range. An example of this is
ensuring that my book doesn’t contain any toys that the child can harm itself.
Copyright:
I will ensure that my work does not include any copyright material. I will do this by making sure that my
illustrations are created through my own ideas and techniques, although I will take inspiration from other
illustrations, I will make sure not to copy their style and breach the copyright regulations.
Ethical Issues:
I will also have to be certain not to accidently include content, which will offend people. Examples of this are,
racism, discrimination and sexism. As well as keeping the book age appropriate and not including violence or
profanity.

4. 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?
Mac Yes
Photoshop Yes
Internet Yes
Memory storage device Yes
Graphics tablet Yes
Camera Yes
Wi-Fi Yes

5. 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 this session I need to create the first page of my book and make sure that all of my characters are
completed and I know what they are going to look like and how to create them.
Session 2:
In this session I will create different versions of my characters, for example, different views of the
character, such as shots from behind, in front and from the side of the character.

6. Session 3:
In this session I will begin to create the environment for my second page.
Session 4:
After creating the environment for my page I will add the characters into the environment and decide if I
need to make any adjustments before continuing.

7. Session 5:
In this session I will create the background, which will be used for the next few pages.
Session 6:
This session will be used to introduce the different versions of my characters to scenes. Such as the
characters being flipped horizontally if they are moving away from the other character.

8. Session 7:
I will create another environment with a more simplistic design, this will reduce the amount of time it will
take to create, as well as being easier and allowing me more time to focus on adding more detail to my
characters, which will be the focal point of the book.
Session 8:

9. Session 9:
Session 10:

11. 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?
Loose wires that could cause people to trip over. You could prevent this by moving any wires, which are
causing an obstruction and are a likely hazard.
Chairs and tables in the middle of the room/chair left out
from under the table.
The chairs could be pushed under the table to prevent
people from tripping over.
Long periods of time staring at the computer screen
causing eyesight damage and headaches.
Taking 5-10 minute breaks every hour in order to give
your eyes a rest from the computer screen could prevent
this.

12. The health and safety at work act 1974 states that you
must look out for your own safety as well as the safety of
others around you.
This means that you must check all equipment to ensure
that it is safe for use. This also means that all accidents
and injuries should be recorded to keep track of the
quality of the health and safety.
Screen regulations act 1992