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The story in my comic is about a wild imagination. It is aimed at kids and shows that its normal to think about things to much. But what you think might happen, may not always be the same as what really happens. I also wanted to show them that they shouldn't give up at the start even if they think its going to be hard, in the end you might find that its the opposite.

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Summary

In my zine I wanted to convey the emotions worry, terror, relief, anger and joy. I showed these through my characters facial expressions, body language and actions.

At the start of this project I wanted to have a simple comic that was easy to read, I believed I achieved this however I received feed back such that when my character was imagining a moment inside his head the clouds weren't very clear.

Therefore my goal was to ensure I made this clear when transitioning my comic onto the web. During my explorations of other zines I found several adaption I wanted to use such as a hover magnifying glass and frames within frames changing. However time was not on my side and I did not have time to explore the integration of the magnifying glass into my zine. I was able to apply the frame within frame switching and used this to my advantage, as it was a cloud of imagination and the next page only showed up when he we witnessing something in 'real time'. I also made my zine more interactive by allowing the reader to chose their own character.

Overall I am very pleased with my outcome as I was not only able to produce a zine which made my comic more clear, but I also found that my knowledge of html coding really came together for me. I was more competent with my code and had the ability to aid those around me. Therefore I found this was a great final project for me.

Website references – code used:

http://www.w3schools.com/jquery/tryit.asp?filename=tryjquery_hide_show

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The core emotions for my project were sadness, hopelessness, happiness and relief.

I wanted to show a transition from being sad to being happy, through my zine about a little boy called Sam with an alcoholic mother and a sad family life. His situation seems hopeless until the new teacher comes into the picture. The new teacher genuinely cares about him, and this gives him the motivation to be a better person. I used colours such as yellow and blue to help portray the emotions in the zine. Blue is a sad and more dejected colour, while yellow represents brightness, relating to happiness. My website to showcase my Zine is fairly simple with only two pages. I wanted to do a hover and change effect for my zine so users could skip by simply hovering over the different pages.

I copied the code from: http://www.designchemical.com/blog/index.php/jquery/jquery-image-swap-gallery/ to do this but I did make my own alterations to it. The frame/skeleton belongs to design chemical however.

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