FMP Initial Plans

1. Initial Plans
Alexander Sullivan-Cree

2. Mind Map
Potential
Ideas.
Podcast
Video Game
Anime
Magazine
My Podcast would be a fifteen
minutes long and would be about
geeks subjects like: recent
comics, anime, movies and TV
shows. I could also bring in
guests to say their opinion of
geekys matters. It would contain
three segments which would
contain sound effects and
backing music to create effect. I
would have two hosts and one
guest.
For my video game I would create
the characters, the landscape and
the backgrounds. I would animate
the game using the timeline tool in
Photoshop. I would’ve recorded
the voice lines and tried to record
the sound effects too. I would like
to base my game on classic games
like ‘The Legend Of Zelda’ and
“Final Fantasy’. This is because I
like the battle mechanics and
creative characters with an
interesting story.
My favorite idea is the Anime
magazine as I really enjoyed the
visual segment of the course. This
will also include multiple different
segments, my favorite anime,
Japanese music, merchandise
adverts which I would also make
alongside the magazine and a few
double page spreads.
Adverts
Merchandise
Front cover
Articles
Posters
Mascots
Posters Box art
Characters
Backgrounds
and
landscape
Sound
effects
Merchandise
Sound effects Posters
Music
Guest
speakers
Subject
categories

3. Mind Map
Anime
Magazine
Posters
Merchandise/A
dvertisements
Anime
movies and
series review
Music
Advertising
posters
Pull out
posters of
anime
characters
Upcoming
movies and
TV shows
Create my own
characters and
ideas and
which I can
incorporate in
my
merchandise
and even create
a short story for
my magazine.
Create a fake
merchandise company
which sells stuff like T-
shirts, key chains, mugs,
bags and many more.
Merchandise
products like
tops and bags.
Create
advertisements
to advertise my
product
Mascot
Posters
Double page spread
articles writing about
anime companies,
works and characters

4. Mood Board

5. Mood Board

6. Mood Board

7. Mood Board Analysis
Is there any repetition in the images you have collected?
Repeated colours/images styles/fonts/tone/mood
The Images in my mood board represent the types of products I intend to make for my final product. As you can see in the mood
board there is a lot of colour through out. This is because anime has beautiful scenes unless the producer/director has chosen to
make it black and white. The front covers for the anime and manga give of a dramatic and extreme feel which is what probably
helps to grab the customers attention. They also have a distinct font which is easily recognisable to the series. The front covers all
contain important characters in the anime as the majority of the cover. The colours of the front covers show weather they're for a
more mature audience or a family friendly audience. As you can see the ones with the most colourful front covers are family
friendly, slice of life anime unlike the more darker and dull ones which are for mature audiences. The colours red, black show this
as red connotes fire and blood and black connotes evil and death. Green, orange and blue connote harmony, happiness and
loyalty.
How will your mood board influence your final product?
Creating the mood board has shown me how the anime industry tries to target their audience and given me a target of how I
want my magazine, adverts and merchandise to look like. It has also allowed me to see how I can make my products different
from already existing products, which will hopefully allow mine to stand out. I have seen a mixture of different genres of anime so
I will make a magazine showing a mixture of anime. In my final product I will use the brighter colours like blue, orange and green
to show its family friendly and use black and red when its not.

8. Informal Proposal
Current Idea
Concept Anime Magazine about upcoming anime and manga. I will also include fictional anime which I
will design the concept for. There will also be advertisements for merchandise and events which I
will make up. I will make merchandise available for purchase on red bubble and make adverts for
the merchandise I will make.
Type of
products you
would make
• Merchandise such as posters, key chains, skateboards and T-Shirts.
• A short 2-3 page manga.
• A fake anime page of the manga I have designed.
• Adverts for my merchandise.
• Double, triple and single page articles.
• Magazine mascots.
What you will
need to make
them
I will mostly be making my magazine on Photoshop but I may use illustrator to help with the
character creations. I will be hand drawing the characters first and scanning them in. I would also
use Red Bubble to upload my t-shirt and poster designs.
Audience It will be suitable for all ages however I think its main audience is will be both genders under 25
and above 16 as some of the material in my magazine may we more mature. I'm not going to
direct it to any social status group and the psychographic will be Belonger.

9. Choices
Discounted ideas Reasons for not choosing this
project
Video Game I didn’t enjoy making the games for my personal
project and interactive project as I felt it was
pretty boring and towards the project I lost a lot
of my interest.
Podcast Similar to the video game projects I also lost my
interest with audio as I didn’t really enjoy having
to speak into a mic. I also believe I am more
skilled in Photoshop then Premier or audition.