The book I decided to analyse was the Hansel & Gretel Pop Up Novel. The use of colour is fitting within the novel. The artist uses a variety of deep autumn/earth (green, blues, browns) colours which fits within the feel of the story, for example being set in a woods relates to the earthy colour scheme. The most used colours in the Hansel and Gretel novel are greens and browns which refers to nature and wildlife environment and also follows the story of them being trapped and lost within the woods. This novel however does include several pops of colour, for example the moon in one of the novels pages has a crisp pearl white colour which makes it stand out from the page. The colours I personally feel are effective within this novel as it makes the overall book look very engaging and interesting; you straight away want to look through this novel as its exciting and something new.
This novel is excellent for its use of imagery. Each page has a different pop of illustration which makes the book extremely unique, as this traditional tale is usually seen through normal novels or film. I have never seen the tale be portrayed through pop up graphics which makes it exciting to read. The use of imagery is really good; the actual illustrations have been hand drawn and to a highly professional standard, furthermore portraying the tale very well. The pop up affect of the novel makes the imagery looks 3D which is different and intriguing. What I find good about this novel is the unexceptional aspect of it, when you first look at the book you don't expect it to be a pop up book this makes it very interesting. Overall I found the imagery in this novel to be really good, I liked how detailed the drawings were and the use of the 3D pop up affect.
The use of text in this novel is also very good. On the front page of the novel the text is an old fashioned style font which relates to the tale being a traditional classic. The text is easy to read and clearly positioned throughout the pages which is good as the main focus is the imagery. The text is the same within the novel which I feel is good as it makes the novel look more professional and slick. The colour of the text is black which makes it easy to read, especially from a distance. The text on every page is placed on a white background, which I feel was did to firstly make it look clearer in the book as the animations are extremely engaging and the main focus. I also feel the text was placed like this to give the impression of a traditional fairytale style book, with the use of an old fashioned style font and placed on a white background.Jack & Jill
I wanted to create a clear but creative design for my Jack and Jill storyboard. I decided to make my board quite bold and imaginative, for example the big arrows and exclamation points make each section of the story stand out. Every box I have tried to apply creativity therefore not keep to the same designs and shapes but explore different patterns as you can see in the first box i have used different fonts and arrows and I feel this makes the box that bit more eye catching. The second box was a part of the story I could make quite visual, I joined to images together to make the landscape of the trees and mountain that Jack and Jill climb up and put the arrow to signify where the two climb up. The next few boxes I put together a random collection of images to piece together the rest of the story.
Photoshop Changes:
To put colour onto the Jack n Jill board, I simply put the image into photoshop adjusted the contrast and brightness slightly (so that it was easier to get a full block of colour). Then I used the magic wand tool to pick out the blocks of white then finally used the paint bucket tool to fill in the blanks with colour.
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