I was having trouble working with A2 sized paper so I decided to go down to A3 paper, to work on an A4 space to finish up with A5 pages when scaled down. I was thinking of making my comic A5 sized in the end anyway. This is because when I was looking at graphic novels and comics to inform my work I realised I really liked the general layout of the Scott Pilgrim comics by Bryan Lee O'Malley, so I want my comic to be a similar style.

I also think that the way I've been doing the comic -taking shots directly from the film and adapting them, is taking too long and I may not get to the point in the story where I want to. Since then I've been coming up with my own compositions too quicken the pace of the story. This gives me more freedom when drawing the scenes but I need to think more about how everything is laid out so that it flows and works for telling the story, it can also be hard if I want to do something complex as I may not have a source to work from. While the tempo of the story has increased and I'm moving through the film quicker it's taking me some time to get used to this method while keeping the quality of the images up and the story coherent. At the moment a lot of the panels are a lot more empty and less detailed than some of the earlier ones.

I've started scanning my pages onto the computer in preparation for making my final booklet. I tried starting to put it together using inDesign but realised I don't no anything about putting together a book on there so I've made an appointment with Stephen so that he can help me do this.

I've looked at a range of comics to inform my project and copied a few pages of some such as: Scott Pilgrim, Y the Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan (main artist- Pia Guerra) and Black hole by Charles Burns. I did this in hopes of learning things from their style to inform my own practice. With Scott Pilgrim, as I said above, I took the general structure and size of the book but it (and all the other comics I've copied from) also helped me (at least a bit) with general comic conventions such as sound effects, how to compose panels, how to panel out pages and when to leave out or put in a background and with how much detail.

The pages of Y the Last Man and Black hole that I copied both had panels where everything was at an angle, slightly askew. This gave either a chaotic, energetic feel to a panel or an uneasy ominous feel depending on the context. What I also liked from drawing Y the Last Man was the way that shadows were done, especially when combined with the pen I was using. I'm going to use this technique in my own comic and think it will work well with the dark tone I'm trying to create.