Pitch Design Board

The design board for my pitch went through many iterations before I settled on a layout that demonstrated the visual language of my Final Major Project, as well as one that described the influences behind the various elements of the project.

This is the final version of the design board, and includes my own illustrations of the main character, one of the alien ship designs, a dummy page from one of the graphic novels, and simple dummy book covers.  It also includes visual reference to inspiration from other comics, literature, and narrative devices. I believe this layout is effective in portraying the atmosphere and style of my FMP, while also giving a good idea about my intentions and reasons for doing this project.

The above image shows me testing the scale of the design board, to see how best to fit all the seperate elements to the aforementioned design. By doing this, I can visualise how the finished board will look and adjust the scale of other elements, such as text boxes, to fit alongside the images.

This image shows a far more developed version of my design board. It looks professional with the black background and borders, as well as having a cohesive and varied layout. While this is not the finished design board, differences can still be seen in how the presentation of the board evolved through its production. I feel that this new layout puts a more central focus on the visual design of my FMP, while allowing enough negative space to declutter the limited space.

This is the final look of my design board, and includes added illustrations to fill the remaining large negative space, as well as giving as much visual reference to my project's style as possible. The board includes a good balance of reference images, dummy examples for my graphic novels, and design illustrations. I am content with the development and final outcome of this design board, and I believe it represents everything that I intended it to.


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I feel that by producing a design board for my pitch, it helped me to summarise and clearly explain (through text and visuals) the ideas behind my project, my intentions for it, and why I decided to do it. While being hand-made, the board ended up looking professional and visually appealing. I believe that constructing design boards like these would be beneficial to any creative project I plan to undertake.