Graphic Novel Storyboard

Before producing my graphic novel, I wanted to plan out each scene that would have to be illustrated for the final publication. Using thumbnail sketches, I was able to make a detailed storyboard that not only showed the content of the majority of the panels, but also the angles and composition techniques that I learned from my primary research.

As I originally planned to create four of these graphic novels in a series, I also planned to produce four storyboards that would help me to further visualise the overall plot of the story I wanted to tell. However, I ended up cutting the workload down so that I could focus more intently on the first of these novels, while offering to produce and publish the sequel graphic novels later on.

I feel that this planning helped me to better understand the beginnings of the pacing, composition and flow of the images in the graphic novel, that would evidently evolve over the course of development to become more improved. The research I put into how to create and format these illustrations also helped me to better structure the storyboard, as well as decide how the three acts of the narrative would be split between the panels. 

On the other hand, if I could redo the storyboard process again, I would make sure to visually develop the storyboards for all four novels in order to see how each part connects to each other in both a narrative and visual sense that is consistent across the series. This would make for a more consolidated and confident approach to the development of my FMP.