The Book

The History of Hartlepool

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This is my book I have created for my final assignment. The book is about Hartlepools history from 1800 to 2000. The images in my book have been taken by me and I have manipulated them to make them look old or that they have been drawn, this goes with my book because in the 1800's they had to draw and write all of information them selfs. I done all of my own research for the book and I have learnt alot while making my book. I also created the page numbers by my self which is a hung monkey and the number (People from Hartlepool are known as monkey hangers).

Logo chosen for the back of the book

Layout of book

This is the layout I want my book to look like if it is printed.

Information for story book

Dates found for the hartlepool book:

1831- Hartlepool has population of 1,300
1832- Cholera kills 57 people in Hartlepool
1833- The first bank opens in Hartlepool
1835- New docks opened in Hartlepool
1836- Hartlepool gains gas light
1839- The railway reaches Hartlepool, which is growing rapidly
1849- Cholera kills 161 people in Hartlepool
1851- Hartlepool has population of 9,227
1854- Christ church is built
1867- Hartlepool sends a MP to parliament
1883- Ward Jackson opens
1889- A promenade is built
1901- Population of about 14,000, West Hartlepool was twice that size
1914- Three German ships bombarded Hartlepool killing 128 people
1923- West Hartlepool war memorial is built
1926- Hartlepool Borough hall is built
1962- The last shipyard in Hartlepool closes
1967- Hartlepool and West Hartlepool are joined under one council
1969- Middleton Grange shopping centre opens (Princess Anne opened it)
1984- St Hilda's hospital closed
1987- HMS Trincomalee is brought to Hartlepool
1995- Hartlepool museum is opened
1996- Hartlepool art gallery opens

The dates highlighted are the dates I am going to research and include in my book.

Information and ideas collect from the Historic Quay visit

This is the videos that I recorded while I was visiting the museum, I didnt record all of the video because they were ten minutes long and didn't contain any information that I needed.

Pictures taken

This slideshow contains all the photographs I taken in the muesum.

Research the history of Hartlepool and ideas

This is a footer I have found on the Hartlepool martitime experiance website it moves from left to right showing a panoramic of the historic quay. I was thinking about using this idea but instead of the panormaic of the historic quay I will be showing a timeline starting from 50 maybe 60 years ago and travel through time till the present day.

Another idea is to do an animatic a bit like the example above, this is what I made for my other subject (photography). I was thinking of getting some models and get all the different types of clothing to represent that time, also collect different images of a street that has changed in time. Then I will put the pictures together and the model will be walking along the street traveling through time to this present day.

I will be visiting the historic quay in Hartlepool (home town) out side of college, I will be looking around to collect some information and ideas. From the different activities available in the area, I will have access to all of the historic quay because I am a member of the Hartlepool Sea Cadets and this allows me to go on HMS Trincomalee.

Final piece of work brief

Using one of the techniques introduced and perfected within the course you are to produce a series of narrative images that clearly depicts the following information:

Hartlepool, as a town, has evolved drastically over the last 100 years. It has witnessed many historical events; from WW2 German attacks to serious social and urban decline. It has enjoyed short periods of prosperity and, along the way, many examples of local achievement along with scandal. As a graphic artist, you have been asked to pitch a proposal to the local council to produce a narrative image body of work that tells the story of this town over 100 years depicting its most defining moments. The pictures must tell the story of Hartlepool and conclude with an optimistic image for a brighter future.

Presentation to the class

Graphics Presentation on Prezi

Flash example starting idea of presentation

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Tilt Shift tutorials

Starting image

Final image

Tilt shift lenses focus on a single part of the photo and shift (blur) the surrounding area to create an optical illusion of miniaturized scenery. Real tilt shift lenses are quite expensive, but a similar effect can be achieved by using Photoshop after you take the photo.
Tilt shift photographs create an optical illusion that makes scenes appear as if they are actually miniature models. The outer edges are blurred which tricks the eye into perceiving everything in the unblurred parts as miniature.
I think that my image turned out better than i thought it was going to, the tutorial was very simple to follow and understand. I would like to create a few tilt shift images and incorperate the flash technique as well to start developing my presenation.

http://visualphotoguide.com/tilt-shift-photoshop-tutorial-how-to-make-fake-miniature-scenes/

Example of flash idea

This is an example of how I will be presenting my work what I have done through out the course. I think that this is a good idea because it brings my work to life and and makes it look more proffessional the way I am presenting it too.

A great example of flash animation

This is a great example of flash, this is very complicated to make most likely but I am not going to create something like this I am just going to use flash to present my work that I have created so far in my course.

Adobe Flash Professional CS5.5

Adobe Flash Professional CS5.5 screen shots

This is just some notes I made during the lesson while we were learning how to use the programme. I found the programme confusing at first but once we started to do the work our selves and experiment with different effects.

Feedback from Essay

Comic books and graphic novels essay- Commented

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Comic Book and Graphic Novel essay

Comic Books and Graphic Novels essay

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This contains 1,508 words and is 4 pages long with 10 images. when I changed the font and writing size it has moved my images along and doesnt look very good now, also I have missed a paragraph out about the different comic book artists such as William Eisner, Stan Lee, Alan Moore and Art Spiegelman.

American Comic Books

Comics part 2

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Notes made during the presentation

•  Marvel + Dc are American Comics
• Noir- Black and white
• Sin City based on Marvel-Noir
• Running out of ideas to make new movies- copying off comics
• No one reads books in the class
• comics are more interesting thats why they copy
• William Eisner- American Comics writer, artist and entreprenur
• Stan Lee-
• Alan Moore- English comics writer
• Art Spiegelman-
  
  

Marvel Comics

Some name of comics:

• Spider man
• Dare Devil
• X-men
• Captain America
• Black Panther
• Incredible Hulk
• Avengers
• Fantastic Four 

Notes:

• Marvel Worldwide inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics
• The Walt Disney company acquired Marvel Entertainment
• Marvel started in 1939 as Timely publications
• Most of Marvel's fictional characters operate in a single reality known as the Marvel Universe, with locales set in real life cities such as New york, Los Angeles and chicago

Some comics that have been turned into a movie:

• Captain America
• Avengers
• Spiderman
• X-Men
• Iron man 
• Thor 
• Incredible Hulk
• Fantastic Four

DC Comics

Some names of comics:

• Superman
• Batman
• Titans
• Flash
• Wonderwoman
• Aquaman
• Green Lantern
• Justice League

Notes:

• Time Warner owns Dc Comics
• Founded in 1934 as National Allied Publications
• DC came from the companys popular series Detective Comics
• DC & Marvel Comics together shared over 80% of the American comic book market as of 2008.

Some comics that have been turned into a movie:

• Superman
• Batman
• Supergirl
• Cat woman
• Swamp thing
• Steeel
• Watchmen
• A history Of Violence

Comic Strip

This is my comic strip in black and white I did have some shading on the individual panels but when I scanned them in with the college printer it cut the comic strip in half and couldn't really see the shading. I think that this was a big let down because it needs the shading on the comic strip to complete it. I think that the storyline is very simple yet successful.

This is the final image I think that it needs to be more bold whilst on the newspaper background. The background is out of the Hartlepool Mail newspaper which is a local newspaper and normal has a Andy Capp comic strip in I just replaced it and the other comic strip that was above it with my comic strip.

Comic book idea sketch

This has not scanned in very good, so I need to go over my sketch with a darker pencil so it will stand out more on the scanner. This will be done as soon as possible.

This is my sketch for the idea of a comic strip, I wanted to remake a Andy Capp comic because it was the artist Reg Smyth that created it and he was born in Hartlepool which is my home town and wanted to do some research on it.

Comic book idea

My idea is recreating a Andy Capp comic strip, the reason I have chosen to recreate a Andy capp comic strip is because the creator is from my home town Hartlepool and I have always liked the Andy Capp storys and want to try and create my own. The story is very basic but shows what it could be like years ago in Hartlepool, it will be called 'Late Night Fishing'. The First pannel will be Andy Capps silhouette in the distance sat on the promenade fishing (which is one of Andy Capps hobbies). The second panel will be a close up of a hook with a big fat juicy worm on the end of it. Third panel medium shot of Andy Capp throwing out his line off the promenade, also with the writing of 'swoosh' for the sound of the rod flying through the air. Fourth panel is the floater in the water with the writing 'Plonk!' for sound again. Fifth panel is an picture of Andy Capp pulling his rod in to see what he has caught for supper. The sixth and final panel will be a extreme close up of a old leather boot hanging off his hook, saying at the bottom " 'Ope I catch the o'er one! ". The panels will be put onto a actual image of a newspaper for added effect and to show that it is an actual comic strip you would find in a newspaper.

My attempt at hand drawing Andy Capp

I wanted to draw Hartlepools famous comic book character, to relate to my comic book asignment. It took 30 minutes all together to draw and colour the images in, I havn't traced the image or took it off a website I have drawn it my self. I think that the out come of the drawing is alot better than I expected I thought it was going to be small and not very good overall. I think the black on Andy Capps suit needs to be darker and his hat needs some tartin affect on it, I got a comment saying 'Andy Capp needs smoke coming from his cigerette' the answer to that comment is no because in most of the comic strips he doesnt have smoke coming from his cigerette.

First stage of drawing

Second Stage of drawing



Final drawing with improvements

Andy Capp

andy Capp is a British comic strip created by cartoonist Reg Smythe (1917-1998), seen in The Daily Mirror and The Sunday Mirror newspapers since 5 August 1957. Originally a single panel cartoon, Smyth later expanded it to four panels.

Andy is a working class figure who never actually works, living in Hartlepool, a horbour town in northeast England. The title of the strip is a pun, a perfect phonetic rendition of that region's pronunciation of the word "handicap", as well as a reference to the main character's trademark flat cloth cap.

Turning Marilyn Monroe into a drawing

This task we had to use this picture of Marilyn Monroe and turn it into a picture that would look like it has been made for comic strip. We used the tool that looks like the nib of a pen, this was used to make the lips and eyes stand out. I had a posterised filter layer added then added colour such as the hair, lips and skin. I found that the colour was too bright and didnt look apart of the image so I turned the opacity down to match the image. After adding colour I used another layer which was a brush affect. I think this image has turned out really well and looks like it has came from an old comic book.

Before editing.

After editing.

Lord Snooty

Lord Snooty (or Lord Snooty and his pals) was in a comic strip in the UK comic The Beano,first appering in issue 1, dated 30 july 1938, and was the longest running strip in the comic until Dennis the Menace and Gnasher overtook it. The central character was Lord Marmaduke of Bunkerton, known to his friends as Snooty, a very ordinary boy who just happens to be an Earl.

The strip was mostly drawn by Dudley D. Watkins until his death in 1969, though Leo Baxendale and Albert Holroyd occasionally filled in for Watkins. The strip had 18 month hiatus from the comic between June 1949 and December 1950. It was at this point that Snooty's original pals (from Ash Can Alley) were replaced with his new pals who lived in the castle. Some of these had previously appeared in other Beano strips.

Desperate Dan

Desperate Dan is a wild west character in the British comic The Dandy. He first appeared in its first issue, date 4 December 1937. He apparently the worlds strongest man, able to lift a cow with one hand. Even his beard is so tough he has to shave with a blowtorch.

The strip was drawn by Dudley D. Watkins until his death in 1969. Although The Dandy Annuals featured new strips from the other artists from then on, the comic continued reprinting Watkins strips until 1983.

Beano

Beano

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My collection of comic books

This is my collection of comic books, I used to read these all the time I also tryed to draw some of the characters to make my own little story up. The storys I used to make were not as good as the ones I got in my comic books so I used to wait till the next issue came out.

Comic Book Presentation

Comics

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Notes Taken in lesson:

• Children used to read comic books instead of  watching tv because the tv channels were limited
• There is many genres of comic books
• Comic books are still being made today
• Andy capp was very popular and the person who drew him was from Hartlepool
• There was also comics for girls and still is

Silent Movie