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- 2. Initial Reaction • My first initial thoughts of this project were that I was a bit worried. I say worried because I didn’t know what to expect and that I didn’t know if I could handle the work, it all seemed a lot. But once reading through it and getting a better feel I didn’t feel as worried and just thought to take each stage at a time and try and produce my best work. What I instantly thought was I could make a magazine cover for either a band or hip hop artist. I thought of this because I have a strong passion for music and listening to it. This means, in my opinion I can produce a strong piece of work for my final project of this year. Another passion of mine and a product I cold make is a video game. The game I would make, could be more for a mobile device because I haven't designed or even thought about creating a product like that. I thought of this idea because I would say I have a very good general knowledge on the subject. • I would say that I’m good at designing ideas and then finally creating what the product would finally look like. I say I’m good at this because that’s the part I enjoy the most throughout the production. Another thing I would say I'm good at is the research and advancing my ideas further, shaping my product further to its best potential. • My opinions on the project are that I'm happy that we get to specialise in what we enjoy the most and get to create whatever we like. The reason why I say this is because I want to have a chance to improve my work from the last time I did. Gives me a chance to further my skills in the area I like. I like that we get to I feel that the time frame is enough for me to create a very good piece of work that will get me the grade I want. I feel that if I keep the same work ethic I have for the first months of the course then I will do well and be happy with my work but stress it also a very big factor in effecting my work ethic.
- 4. Idea 1 Magazine Merchandise CDsPosters hoodies T shirtsHats Signed Posters Signed CDs Signed Clothing Advertisement Billboards Radio TV posters Side bar website Sponsors Website Relevant info Tours Festivals Latest magazine edition Subscriptions Prizes Phones/tablet sComputers/la ptops Holidays Tickets Tours Festivals Concerts
- 5. My first idea is a magazine. What I would be creating with this idea is a front cover, double page spread and a website. When thinking of this idea my mind was going off in all directions and it was difficult to try get them all down at once. I feel like this idea is very viable to create and think it will probably be the more realistic product I could create. Because everything that I have listed on the mind map I can create within college and out of college. Also I would say this idea for me would be one of the more enjoyable products due to the fact I found this product the most fun out of all the rotations. I haven't really expanded many ideas on this mind map because I already have an idea of what I would create for a magazine.
- 6. Idea 2 Video game Platform Mobile PCConsole Application AppleAndroid Xbox PlayStation Steam Blizzard Genre First person Third person Shooter Adventure Racer Puzzle Shooter Adventure Racer Puzzle Arcade Aesthetics Retro Pixels Colours Environment Earth space Jungle Mountain planets Bright Dark DLCs Micro transitions Advertisement TV advert Radio Beta Prizes Season pass Competition
- 7. For my second idea, I was thinking of doing a video game. Again I had a lot of ideas within the product itself such as different platforms, styles, designs and genres. If I was going to do pick this for my fmp then I will have a lot of options to decide what would work the best. A lot of the ideas I feel would be a bit hard to create because of my lack of experience with video games. I only mention this because of the platforms I have mentioned and genres of games would be a bit difficult to create with the time span given. But on the other hand, I have listed some good ideas that I can easily do and create in college.
- 8. Idea 3 Short film Genre Horror ComedyAction Classic/ vintage Monster/ Demon High school Student Army/ Robbery Guns/ Shooting Hero Day today life Meets girl Falls in love Advertisement Promotional Poster Film trailerTV advertisement YouTube Social media CinemaMerchandise Prizes Film premieres Buses Billboards Locations City (york) Forest College Village House Park
- 9. For my third idea I felt I should create some ideas for a short film. I'm not as confident in this area and struggled in a way to think up idea for a short film and that’s why I don’t have much for the mind map. But I know I got the more important stuff down that is involved in a the production of film making. Those points I got were genre, advertisement and locations. My thought process for this idea was a bit all over the place and took me a bit of time to fully complete it. Much like the magazine cover, I could easily create the product because all the equipment is at college and all the locations in my mind are easily accessible.
- 10. Idea 4 CD cover Advertisement Artist TV PostersRadio Apps Rapper SingerBand Editions Deluxe version Track list Best hits Top tracks of the year ITunes HMV Spotify Bus stops Buses Magazine cover
- 11. For my last mind map idea, I didn’t come up with many ideas for the cd cover which now makes me doubt that I would use it for my production. I think I main reason for this would be that its more of an add on to maybe doing a magazine cover then it being its own product. Due to the fact that I have very little idea towards doing a cd cover. Maybe I will combine this idea and my first idea to help develop my first idea even further. This would work because that it wouldn’t be a problem creating the product during college time and possibly out of college time. But on the other hand I don’t feel that passionate on this idea so I might not even end up using it. I guess my thought process wasn’t the best during this idea and I did spend a decent amount on time trying to think if things to add.
- 12. Final Mind Map
- 15. Mood Board Analysis Is there any repetition in the images you have collected? Repeated colours/images styles/fonts/tone/mood One thing I had noticed before doing this work is that the majority of all magazine covers, is that they always have a big image of the main topic taking up the whole front cover. This has been a very typical style of front covers for many years and does make a lot of sense to do it this way because straight you get a face and a name of what content will be in the magazine. Then again another recurring feature on magazine covers would be the cover lines places around the main image on the front giving off information of what else the magazine involves. Having cover lines stand out but still having the main image as the main attraction is an important feature to have. How will your mood board influence your final product? I feel that m mood board will give me some good ideas on how to make and design a classic style front cover. But again I want to have some old and new involved in my work because I want to be able to create content that is relevant and different to other companies. By doing this I can stand out more. I also added in some screenshots of websites also to remind me of how the companies layout their information and present their work as an online web page. *
- 16. Pros and cons of my ideas I would say that the pros to my ideas are that I've managed to come up with a decent variety of choices in what I could create even though I have decided on my final idea. For example I could still add in a cd design cover design to my production just to add more depths to my work. I also think the pros of my ideas is that I give myself enough ideas to expand on later that could lead to more of an advanced idea. For my cons of my ideas are that some of them are a bit far fetched and that they wouldn’t really be possible to create. I’m directing this more towards the video game side and how advanced the platform the game could be played on and designs of the game. All adds up to me not having a enough experience, lack of equipment and time to finish the product.
Editor's Notes
- #3: Log your initial thoughts regarding the set brief- What could you make? What are you good at? Your opinions? Can be a list of bullet points of reactions- does not have to be full prose. Can be hand drawn and scanned in.
- #7: Bubbl.us or hand drawn-scanned using college printers exploring 3 potential ideas
- #13: Bubbl.us or hand drawn-scanned using college printers exploring your final idea
- #14: Collection of images related to your product/inspirational/visually interesting At least 15 needed