Lessons learned and the end of the unit...

Today I went to get my images printed at copyplus in town. Now, I've been working to the scale of 25cm squared images, meaning that my double pages are 25 X 50. So I found out that due to the size, they would need to be printed on a2 sheets, which are priced at £7 each! So obviously that wasn't happening. The woman was nice though, she said that we could scale them to fit on a3 and then it would cost under a fiver for all three images! So obviously we did that. With that in mind, I'm adjusting my book pages to 22cm X 44cm. Who would have thought that 3cm difference would amount to so much! Also, they ALWAYS come out darker than I'd planned. I even compensated for this by lightening them a little but I guess my laptop screen has the brightness set pretty high. I'll have to remember that for the finals. Other than that it was really nice to see them to scale. It allows me to look at the images and decide whether I can apply more detail in the way of additional creatures and stuff like that, just to make the images more engaging for kids. The below post is pretty much my entire hand in. This blog is really where the action happened, you see a lot more of the working process here. My hand in box will contain my first draft script with notes, my final draft script with notes, 31 a3 pages of sketches and my 3 print outs from today. I hope that's enough.