Explanation with Typography

In Learning Outcome 2 and practically my Graphic Narrative, I felt my drawings and the narrative were of a good standard but there is perhaps some confusion in terms of the text and typography used, which is why I am writing this small passage to explain the reasoning behind why some of typography I research did not make the final production.

I managed to get the Sonic The Hedgehog, classic font which I was very pleased with and I felt that was essential consider the comic was about Sonic The Hedgehog become obsese and was more based on the classic design of Sonic from years past so it made sense to use the typography/logo of Sonic from the 90's.

The explanation for The Simpsons typography is quite simple. As a way to play with the original Sonic logo for the first scene of my comic, I was going to incorporate food into the design, this would mean have the O shaped as a doughnut, the I as a bar of chocolate, the S and three jelly snakes joint together and so forth and I got inspiration from this by looking into the typography of the Simpsons Movie logo as it has the O shaped as a donut with a small bite in it and I felt that was very effective and could provide a bit more insight into my comic along give it a comedic touch but sadly I had to concentrate on the story elements of the comic and I felt that it was completely essential, it would have been something neat to include at the time but I wasn't particular fused but I still feel it was something of importance to research as not only was it different typography than the Sonic logo but it gave inspiration to an idea that I didn't end up implementing due to time constraits.

As for handwriting and most of the text in the comic, I wanted to keep it bold and in my hand writing as I felt that would make it a lot more personal. I didn't feel there was a need to research other peoples hand writing as I was going to use my mine and that would be a very unique type of typography. I felt that using my hand writing set it apart from otheres and right away from starting to develop the product to actually finishing and having a final production, I wanted to use my handwriting in pencil all the way through, just like the drawings and not have it digitally composed since I felt that, not only does it make it more personal but I just didn't have the inspiration or time, nor the skills to undergo colouring and digitally remastering every scene in the comic book with a pen on programs such as Adobe Photoshop CS5 for example. It wasn't my intention in the first place and I felt I achieved that by keeping the hand writing style, something that I can say is mine and as for the occasional bold and underlined words, those are primarily for dramatic effect and secondly for to keep the reader interested and excited with the slight chance in the text styles.

Script for Sonic The Fat Hedgehog [LO1 - Task #2] *

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Script for sonic the fat hedgehog

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Storyboard for Sonic The Fat Hedgehog [LO1 - Task #2]

Feedback from Ideas [LO1 - Task #1]

Idea #1 - Sonic The Fat Hedgehog   Votes 9
Idea #2 - Shadow                            Votes 5
Idea #3 - Revenga                            Votes 2

Idea #3 - Revenga

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Plot Summary:

Micheal is a typical school boy who wants nothing more than to have fun but with the teachers and his friends always on his case, he doesn't get much of a chance of what he truly wants to do to have fun and is only left playing with sticks in the dirt. After a few days of realising something must change, Micheal steps out of his bedroom window and plans out traps to make not only the teachers but his friends pay. It pays off and he is not cautioned as nobody would suspect such a small boy and realising such deeds, Micheal tries to get away with other dirty deeds and thus he does. He feels on top of the world but as he does more, he begins to find people are not noticing him and he feels that he is nothing more than a ghost. Micheal tries to think back and notices that he is living someone elses life and that he is nothing more than a small boy who has been captured for experimentation. It soon becomes a battle of whether Micheal can escape this imbodiment of a different small boy and how he can break away from this torment.


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Idea #2 - Shadow

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Plot Summary:

Ryu Haiashaki is a trained, fully equiped ninja who has a strange dark past and has inhuman powers. A soul devouring entitiy known only as "Void" took over Ryu's body as a child and as he has grown up, his powers of shadows as not only made him a super human being but a nutcase. It isn't before long where Ryu cannot deal with real life and is deemed insane. During his time in asylum, he tries to fight the shadow within him before it completely takes over but it breaks him apart and Ryu manages to escape the asylum. He must now battle back and forth with the elements and find a way to control his shadow-like powers before he is killed. The shadows are only drained away his soul and it won't be long before he is left soul less and nothing more than a puppet but can Ryu succeed in controlling this strange, powerful entity?


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Idea #1 - Sonic The Fat Hedgehog

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Plot Summary:

Sonic The Hedgehog, An Anthropomorphic Blue Hedgehog decides to go about his day in the world of Green Hill but it isn't before long that "mastermind" Dr Robotik, also known as Eggman decides to change the properties of Sonic's all beloved golden rings. The more Sonic collects throughout his adventures, the more he gains weight and before he can realise what is happenning to him due to his blistering speed, the small blue hedgehog goes from slightly podgey to massive. Now Sonic must find a way to change the properties of the rings, whilst avoiding them before Dr Robotik takes control of the island Mobius in which he will have the power to get over the world.

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