There have been a few tweaks and changes made in my final product that differ

from the originally planned content. Many of the changes made were regarding
the set up of images in each page, and in the flat plans, many of the scenes were
set up in different ways, with
furniture and characters placed
around in certain orders that
were not carried over into the
final product. The main reason
for this was that the set-up of
scenes was dependant on the
source image found to serve as
background, which was often
varying in the angles and amount
of space they had. This meant
that some characters needed to
be placed differently. This
explains the differences between
the flat plans and final product,
but there are also changes from the storyboard to the final product.
The main change is the addition of an
extra, tenth page in the final product
compared to the nine pages in the
storyboard. This was because the set up
of the storyboards only allowed for 3
frames per page, and therefore to put in
the additional tenth page, there would
need to be a whole extra page
containing simply one frame. In the
actual, final product, I split the eighth
frame in the comic into two separate
pages, showing the Stepsisters trying
on the slipper in a page before showing Cinderella trying it on in the next page. In
terms of other forms of planning I made for the story, I did not differ from what I
had planned.
In general I am quite satisfied with the overall outcome of the images I have
constructed throughout the project of the childrens book. However, there are
still quite a few flaws in the general construction of the images within the
childrens book which I have noticed, that have kept it from being as good as it
could be. Some features of the book may have benefited from having more
attention to detail, which may have allowed for the creation of more unique and
consistent character designs, but this may have difficult or impractical given the
time that we had to complete it, and I am satisfied with what was achieved.
I believe that I have achieved a good, consistent aesthetic running throughout the
book, that balances between a fairly original and unique style while still
maintaining an artistic style reminiscent of popular fairytale imagery, through
the use of colours, lightness and darkness, scenes and images used, and the

designs of the characters that were constructed. I am also very happy with how
the use of fabric textures came out and the effect and imagery it resulted in, to
give the image of textured clothing patterns.
An issue that occurred often throughout my childrens book is that the actual
construction of the characters facial
appearance could appear to be quite
inconsistent throughout the book. When I
could not simply copy over the face of a
character that I had already drawn, either
because it was at a different angle or some
other reason, I drew it again from scratch, and it could often look quite different
to the other versions in the book. Cinderella and The Princes face for example
fluctuate quite often.
In my childrens book, I had separate pages for both image and text. The text
pages preceded each image page, meaning that the background information and
story development was always established first, before an image was shown
detailing the scene or a piece of the scene. This made the story flow in a much
easier way that was far more understandable and simple for young readers to
grasp, as it is important not to confuse and alienate the target audience.
Because of this, I did not have to consider how and where I positioned my text
over my images, nor did I have to make room in the images to put text, so I did
not have to shrink down or cut out things. However, I did create a background
image to accompany all the text pages so it would not simply be a blank, white
background. I created a background image of a parchment texture and a border
of pink roses so that the text pages wouldnt be dull.
Since there was a background
image, and not just a plain, stark,
white background, I wanted to be
able ensure the text that I used
would still be very clear and visible,
while still being a font and colour
that was appropriate. The font that I
chose was papyrus, in a rather clear
size 30, which still allowed for a
rather large amount of text to be
written and still remain readable.
The colour used was a dark brown,
which was clear against the background, but rather dull.
I used a variety of text effects, such as gradients, shadows, embossing, and glow
effects in order to make the text look interesting and aesthetically pleasing, while
not being too excessive or unfitting for the theme of the book. I think that the
appearance of the text is in-keeping with the theme and tone of the book as well
as being aesthetically appropriate in colour and the effects used to enhance the
text.

In the actual writing of the story itself, I did not want to be alienating to the
audience of very young children, and therefore chose to avoid words or phrases
that would be difficult them for them to read or be something they were unlikely
to understand at their age. Many of the words and terms I used were quite
simple and easy to grasp, especially for children around the age-range of my
target audience. I also tried not to have excessively long text pages, which was
somewhat difficult because there was quite a lot of the story that needed to be
told through the text pages, and I wanted to tell it as briefly as I could without
leaving out crucial story details.
In the images, as well as the text, I think the book is appropriate for the children
in my target audience 5-8. The images that I have used are often quite lively and
colourful, even in the darker scenes such as in the Stepmothers Castle. I did this
because children often appreciate things that are more colourful and vibrant,
especially at a young age, and I made these decisions of colouring to best appeal
to my target audience. While I tried to maintain a slightly realistic art style for
the characters since they were in relatively realistic backgrounds, I also kept
them having slightly cartoonish appearances so that they would appeal to
children.
One of the tools I used most often to achieve the effects and designs I wanted was
the Polygonal Lasso Tool, which I used to
create the shapes of the objects I wanted to
draw in Photoshop such as the body parts
of the characters. I also used quite often the
brush tool to fill the shapes that I cut out
with the lasso tool with colour, or to create
the details and shading.
I am quite happy with the effects I was able to achieve using this combination of
techniques, as it allowed me to quite easily create the characters and separate
their body parts into layers so I would be able to adjust them and copy them over
and edit them as necessary. During production, the amount of layers that I had
became quite difficult to organize, especially when I needed to move many layers
(often those that combined together to create one complete character) all at
once.
In general, I am happy with the outcome of my final product. While it is not
perfect and there are many things that could have been done better, I am
satisfied and content that I achieved the things that I wanted to throughout the
project to an acceptable standard.
My main issue with how things have turned out is that characters that appear
often throughout the story, such as Cinderella and The Prince, can appear slightly
inconsistent in their facial features, as they can change somewhat from page to
page if I was not simply able to copy over their face from another page. For the
most part, however, I am otherwise content with how the project turned out.

Throughout the story there are a few small instances of symbolism occurring.
Some symbolism in the story is shown through the
use of lighting within the scenes. Many of the
scenes occurring in the Stepmothers Castle are
quite dark as well as having dark lighting. This can
give the symbolic message, even to children who
are too young to grasp more complex symbolic
concepts, that the Castle is not a happy place for
Cinderella. In the final page, during Cinderella and
The Princes wedding, they are in a very light coloured room, to show the
contrast to the dark castle where Cinderella began her story.
There are a few groups of people being
represented in my childrens
book. Cinderella herself is a
representation of both
women and black people,
while 5 of the 6 characters
within the book are women. The
representation of Cinderella is a
positive representation of women
and black people as she is the
protagonist of the story and is not shown as having
any negative traits. There are two representations of
people of an older age, with one being a positive one
(The Fairy Godmother) and the other being a negative
one (The Stepmother) so there is an equal split.
The planning and research was very beneficial for me when I was working on the
project, and I often went back to my pre-production planning to help me during
the project, and it saved me a lot of time to already have planned out what I was
going to do which meant I would not lose time that could go towards working on
the project and instead spend it on trying to generate ideas, as I already had my
ideas and plans made during the pre-production stages.
While the planning and research was extremely useful, I did not follow it
completely to the letter, and one of the weaknesses of my planning is that I did
not always fully consider how the things I had planned would work out during
production stages. An example of this includes my digital flat plans, in which I
had planned out where my text would go over my images, but did not consider if
this may prove to be problematic during production, which it did, and therefore
resulted in me changing the way I did my text from how I had planned it.
Cinderella is a classic, famous fairy tale that is believed to
have existed in its earliest forms since 6th century BC. The
story is most famous in recent history in the Disney
adaptation of the story, made more child-friendly than the
darker Brothers Grimm version of the fairytale. My
adaptation of the story follows in Disneys path of making the

story child friendly, omitting many of the darker story elements from the
Brothers Grimm tale. One of the things that differentiates my adaptation of the
story to most others is that Cinderella is portrayed as a black woman, but this is
not the first time this has happened, as the 1997 film adaptation of Cinderella
also portrayed Cinderella as a black woman.
Cinderella exists in many forms throughout
different media types, including books, animated
films, live-action films and even plays. Many other
adaptations of Cinderella exist that have recreated
the story in the form of a Childrens Book, some
from Disney using the designs of Cinderella in the
1950 animated film, while others have created
their own designs or repurposed the story of
Cinderella using pre-existing story characters.