Questionaire

1. What types of games do you like?

2.How many Hours do you spend playing games weekly?

3.What type of colour would appeal to you in a urban game?

4.Do you like any Grand Theft auto games if yes which one?

5.What game console do you have?

6.Whats the latest game you played?

7. Are you willing to buy a new console at its current price? eg Xbox 360/ps3

8. what type of things do you look for in a cover?


Thanks

Remember

Mise en scene
cinematography: why where how camera shot

what it about
layout
stereotypes and archtypes
dennatation what it off
connotation whats it about
figure movement

Comparisons

Well as you can see here i have 2 origanal game covers which are censord 18 but i have heard many kids talk about playing these games and saying how fun it is, both games are very different in the sense that 1 is an rpg storyline and the other one is a adventure quest, gta is one of the most popular games ever made because the charecter can do similar things compared to a real human being such as it can eat and get fat, u acn make muscle earn money etc this is the type of game where people like to get themself lost into because it creates a fantasy worl for them to enjoy, many gamer who are proffesional gamer tend to play game because they have had bad expriences or got bullied, i knw this because my mate is a proffeisional gamer ang he work for a company which

trys out brand new games and they tend todo surveys in which they can find out the type of people who play the diffrent genres game.

halo 3 is a wikid game i knw this because i ahve played it myself and really enjoyed i love the graphgic and the game play because it feel so realistic.

When you compare the two front cover gta looks more kidish compared to halo 3 and look really futuristic, gta is more urban compared to halo, halo is as realistic like eating food etc it is more off a simulised realistic hunting mission were u are trying to save planet earth from alien, from this sentence you can tealll the main target aundiece people who are in to aliens space shooting and killing etc.

Look at the difference between the 2 cover as you can see halo on top on the cover tell us that it is xbox live meaning you will be able to play online which is a big seling point also the writing halo 3 is written on top i think they deliberatly did that because they wanted the image to be the main selling point light from one corner and then get darker from the other i thinks show the diffrent of moods also the too diffrent types of world, the surrounding obviously is cgi (computer generated images) because theve created an image of what they think the future would look like. Gta cover is very simple as you can see there are 10 images of charecter car places etc this is a good selling point because the colour is soo eye cathing because many diffrent light colour are use which creates the effect of rain bow which is eye catching, ' grand theft auto' is written the same way as it has allways been written just 'san andreas' is written in such

a ghetto way, it looks like a symbol ang something written like that would catch my eye.

Gta Magazine cover

This is an original grand theft auto magazine cover for the new game that going to be released as you can see it is in black and white which i thinks is, when in wrestling it shows blood on the guys they tend to change it to black and white to not get the minors scared which compared to the magzine it can be represented as violence in the game. as you can see he is holding a gun in his hand which also can be represented as crime, violence and theft this show us that the aundiece it going to attract is going to be someone interested in guns and shooting games.

Game Magazine tend to be very over crowded with images and writng but as you can see here, it has only got 1 image of a guy who is in his mid 20 holding a gun which gives the impression of a shooting game, the back ground is very bland which i think is to create a sesnse of isolation of the charecter, the writing (Grand Theft Auto IV) is the only infomation we get at the front cover about the game to make us more interested in the game and create a suspense. (Game Informer) is blended in with the image to make it look good.

25th january

my main idea is gonna be based on GTA (grand theft auto Vice city) but with a twist, i will be basing it in england lol i got this idea from mate he insisted i do it because he said alot of people are into it.

23rd january 2

im having second thought on wat to do my magazine on, because everthing has to be oringal game magazine is really hard todo without an professinal crew so i have to think about other options.

23rd january

Today we were showed how to do a brief, sam showed us a example of someone else brief essay and then explained to us what we had to add on to the brief also we talked about hw gender is added in the brief by not just saying its betweeen 13 to 50, sam showed us a way to narrow it down so that we can find out the right age group for the product.

22nd january

Today we had looked at many advert, sam showed us a slide show which then he sent us too the computers to look at our own advert the address we were on were http://www.adbusters.org i found out that there were many people againt the caphain of drink and drugs.

21st january

Ive made some valuable point on wat im doing also iv created my foundation for my work lol!

My Ideas

Well iv had many ideas but at the moment in my head i thought about doing a game magazine because u can compare it to a larger Age range and there are many different types of audience, men are steretypically the main target audience for games magazine but i will try makling my magazine appeling to women aswell, i read alot of game magazine so i am very confident about my idea.

As you can see there a two/three main colours used in a magazine, the black background contrast with the lime green colour which makes it stand out, also game magazines tend to be really over crowded with images to make the reader a bit confused about wat to read, but because there colours contrast each other they stand out.

The writng used on the front cover is very minimal because the desighner want people to focus more on the image because that is wat there relating and the makers have filled up the page inside the magazine with lots of writing, so the front cover has to be really appeling.

Wag1 lol

Today i have created my blog for my Media Course work! I am very happy and excitied lol!