Unit 4 personal project

Project Title
Games Magazine Cover

Influences, Research, Sources and Ideas

For my project I will be doing a games magazine cover where I got the idea from both reading my favouite magazine and from my passion of games. My influences for my project are from popular game magazines like Xbox 360, PlayStation and Pc Gamer. These magazines tend to explore new and up coming games, going into detail and often talking about their consoles either the latest model or the next generation. These different types of magazines are great because they go into detail about a numerous of different things that can help with problems, or just informs you about up coming games that you may not know about. I started searching and researching into different magazines and designs, looking for different layouts weather small and simple or large and compacted with loads of details and a numerous of different things happening like a main image as the back ground and several smaller images over lapping the larger one wether its of the same game or showing different images from other games either gaining peoples attention or just to make it look more appealing and interesting. For my idea and design I'm wanting to go for a simple but effective design cover with my brands or companies name at the top with a slogan like "The nations Greatest gaming magazine." For the magazine title Im thinking plox as its a mixture of Pc,Xbox and Playstaiton making it a all round readable magazine that all types of gamers can read as it doesnt just have to be for one group of people now its for the majority of the gamers. looking into different magazines I started getting some ideas to develop my own piece. I started looking into title designs, images, colours used and the layout of it all. I was also interested in the way the images worked together, how they would be displayed next to each other and the way the colours and shades blended together to get the professional design and feel.

Techniques And Processes

This image just shows off me making it using photoshop and tools like  crop,transform , magic wand,text tool, eyedropper, paint bucket,eraser,brush, bevel and emboss.

Description

This is just the background with a dark and mysterious theme to it with a lightening storm going on bringing it colour and brightness making it less boring and kind of setting the tone for it, also making you want to read on so you know why its there and what its about. For the main character drawing I took a photo, changed and painted over it. This is also a great way I thought on how to show off the main character and kind of give you a good idea on what he's about and what he does. A good way of doing this was with his weapons which was a bow and arrows. When you look at it you get a feel for him and you can carry on to understand him more. This is also a good way of letting the viewers know if its something that there into, if their into games with bows and arrows then they might be more inclined to read it but if your not a fan and don't like using them weapons then you know just by looking at it that its not for you. My main character looks like this because I wanted to give him a dark and mysterious look/ feel to him. I didn't make it all black as that could be boring so instead in added different colours like purple and blue with depth and tone. Seen as how his weapon of chose is a bow it tells you hat he likes to use it from a distance, hiding away in the back ground, unseen and un detected. He's also got great skin tone that both shows him off so you have a idea what he looks like but also theres shadows on his face.

Final Outcome

This is a screen shot of my overall piece with all the titles, images, text and colours added. To round it all of I added a simple border just to smoothen it off kind off making it more complete.