Power point we had to make for college.

1. Print Product Research

2. Examples of different types of Magazine covers

3. PC Gamer, general information
PC Gamer is a magazine that was founded in the United Kingdom, in 1993. It is
devoted to PC gaming, and is published monthly by Future plc. The UK and US editions
have became the best selling PC games magazines. The magazine features news on
developments in the gaming industry, previews of new games, and even reviews of
the latest popular PC games. They also feature information on different hardware and
mods. Their magazines also feature info on classic games and other various topics.

4. Examples of different types of PC Gamer magazine
covers and their analysis
There logo which is essentially their font is very bold and large, which makes it stand out. Probably because they want you
to recognize that this is there magazine. Also there is an image of a new, popular game on the front cover, this is to draw
people in who are interested in these games. It is also to advertise the new games out at the current time of the magazine.
They also have lots of ‘subheadings’ on their front cover, this is probably to make people aware that the magazine isn’t
just about that one game on the front cover, and that it has a lot more content inside. On a few of the front covers that I
was looking at I saw barcodes on the front cover, but some magazines have them on the back. This is probably just for the
fact of scanning the product, and buying it. There is also a lot of circular boxes on their front covers which have
information in them. They usually have some text in them, that tells you what is inside the magazine. They also have
information on special deals. They also light blue on the cover a lot. It is usually at the top of the page, or used for the
colour of the circular boxes.

5. PC Gamer magazine, double page
spread
The pages inside of the magazine usually have lots of information, whether that be info on the game itself advertised on
the page, or someone’s experience with the game. The info is alongside pictures of the game, titles, and subheadings,
which are usually bold. My reason for thinking they use bold titles, is that they stand out, and they want you to know
what game it is about. The colours are mixed depending on what the page is about, some pages have bright, warm
colours, some cold colours, and some quite dull colours. However, I have noticed that the colours match the game
advertised on that current page, or match the image. The language of their magazines are sometimes formal and
sometimes informal. It depends on the game they are talking about. They also use sections to split up text/paragraphs,
this is probably not to make the page look clustered. They are also not afraid to leave blank, white spaces, which could
seem a bad idea, but this is probably to make their pages less clustered, and messy.

6. PC Gamer official website
The layout of their website is very professional, and neat. They use their main colour, which is red throughout
their website. They use a mix of informal and formal information, in which appeals to different audiences,
such as the informal info will appeal to younger audiences. Whereas the formal info will appeal to people
wanting to find out info, as well as a more mature audience. The images throughout their website links to
recent games out, or popular games still running with a big fan base. Their website also features images, and
information on PC parts, as the audience of PC Gamer will most likely own a PC or be thinking about getting
one. They also feature reviews on their websites which can be formal or informal. The informal ones are
usually funny, and the formal ones are the more serious reviews. The types of fonts used are very generic
ones, they almost resemble the generic font, that I am using now, Calibri (body).

7. PlayStation Magazine information
PlayStation Magazine is a magazine based in the United Kingdom that covers
PlayStation news. It was originally created in Winter, 2006. As of Issue 7 which was
released in June, 2007, the magazines now come with a playable Blu-ray Disc. This
usually covers PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 games, and material. However it also
also covers PlayStation Vita material. The magazine covers PlayStation lifestyle, as well
all aspects of High Definition media in lesser detail.

8. Examples of different types of PlayStation Magazine
covers and their analysis
The colour scheme of
PlayStation magazines are
usually somewhat the same.
They all have the white bar
across the top of the magazine,
which informs the reader on
what type of Sony console or
product information is in the
magazine.
The colours schemes vary throughout
each PlayStation magazine cover. The
magazine covers that I have chosen,
have a lot of blues in them. The
reason for this could be because,
PlayStations main colour is blue, or it
could just be because the games
shown on the cover relate to that
colour somehow.
The layout in general is
very neat, it lets you know
what the main content of
the magazine is. There is a
lot of information about
what content is inside the
magazine, which most
magazines should have.

9. PlayStation magazine, double page spread
The layout of the
magazine is neat, they
have their text far enough
away from each other to
make it look very neat
and professional. In my
opinion this page is very
bland, it doesn’t catch
your eye, as there isn’t a
lot of colour used. Also
there is a lot of text,
which will put people off,
from reading it. If they
were to change the size of
some of the text, and not
have it all the same size,
then it would look more
eye-catching.
The main colour that they
have used on this page is
blue, which could be
because, PlayStations
main colour is blue.
The main image used on the page
shows the game off, that they are
talking about. It captures a feel for
the game showing what the game is
about.
I think that this page overall could have
done with more colour, as well as images.
The page needs to show the game off more.

10. Official PlayStation website
The layout of the website is neat and easy to navigate. It looks very
professional and the theme of the website matches the PlayStation
theme. The colours of their website also matches the PlayStation theme.
This is an older version of the official PlayStation website, but it looks
modern with the way they have set it out.
Upon entering there
website you can tell
straight away that it is
the Official PlayStation
website, because of
how professional it
looks as well as the
PlayStation logo and
the picture of the
PlayStation controller.
I like how they have
split the page up
into different
sections. It makes
the page look less
boring, visually. It
also gives the page
that clean look,
dividing it to make
it less cramped, and
messy.

11. Xbox magazine information
The Official Xbox Magazine is a monthly gaming magazine which started in
November 2001 around the launch of the original Xbox. The magazines are
bundled with a disc that included game demos, preview videos, and trailers, and
other content, such as game or Xbox updates and free gamer pics. The discs also
provided the software for the Xbox 360 for backward compatibility of original
Xbox games for those without broadband and Xbox Live access.

12. Xbox magazine cover
analysis
The colours used in the Xbox
magazine are green as this is
the main Xbox colour.
The main image of the cover is
Batman Arkham Knight, which
at the time the magazine was
released, that game was new
out.
The text on the cover
lets the reader know,
what content is inside
the magazine.The magazine has a barcode on
the front which is most likely
just for the magazine to be
scanned and bought.
The cover of the magazine features the Xbox
logo, which lets you know that the content
inside the magazine will be about Xbox, and
products related.
Most of the text on the front cover, is formal
as gaming magazines are usually seen as to
be for a mature audience, because of some
of the content inside which is age related.

13. Xbox magazine, double page spread
The page layout is very neat, and
professional looking. It has lots of
colour, and uses the main Xbox
colour which is green. The
background isn’t just a plain white
colour, it is a black. There isn’t too
little or too much images in the
magazine.
A lot of the text is sectioned
into boxes, I see this as a good
thing as you don’t want the
text to be all in one paragraph,
as it will look messy.
The two main colours of this page are black
and green, I think this is a good idea as, its
more creative than having black on white,
like most magazine pages do.
The pictures used do an okay job at showing the game off. However, I think they
could of got better images that show off the game even more. From the picture the
images look a bit dull, but that may just be the camera.

14. Official XBOX website/store
Overall I think the website looks professional but it doesn’t look very colourful. It wouldn’t draw me in as its quite
bland for a website design. However, this is an older version of the website. The website itself has stuck to the green
and white theme, that represents the Xbox, as they are the two colours associated with that gaming console.
The page itself does have a clean
look to it, and the bar at the top
helps with this, keeping the page
feel less clustered together. The
‘bar’ helps separate the page.
This is one of the elements that
makes the page look
professional.
Image of the official Xbox website/store found on google images.

15. Comparing all three magazines
PC Gamer magazine PlayStation Magazine Xbox Magazine
Each of the magazines have their own colours, which consist from magazine to magazine. PC Gamer magazines generally have their main colour
throughout the magazine which is red and black. The magazine cover that I have chosen for PC Gamer, has the main character for the game that
they are advertising and saying this magazine includes information on “The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt”, layered over the text, covering the “A” of the
word “Gamer”. PC Gamer can do this as they are a well known company that own a website along with their magazines. Therefore there logo is
recognized even with a word or two being covered. Xbox magazine has done the same with the character being layered over the logo text. One
of the characters “Sledge” is layered over the “O” and “X” of the word “XBOX”. However, you can read the letters, as they are only slightly being
covered up. Whereas with PC Gamer you can’t at all. Overall, out of all of the magazines, PlayStation looks the most professional and neatest
one out of the three. But, that may be because of the cover I have chosen, as they are showing off a modern game that has a big story to it. I
would say the least visually appeasing magazine is the Xbox cover, as its not as colourful as the others. It has a plain white background. However,
I think the PC Gamer is the messiest magazine, but I think it still looks good, as it has a lot of colours that look visually pleasing.

16. Inspiration for my magazine front cover
These are some images that I gathered
as inspiration for my front cover of my
magazine. They are from the game
Fallout 4 and are collectible magazines
that you can find throughout the world
known as ‘the wasteland’.

17. I like the style of the magazines, they have a comic book style to them. I like
that they look cartoony, and look as if they have been drawn by hand. I am
hoping to make my front cover look similar to this style, I will draw by cover by
hand then scan the drawn image in, then add colour on Photoshop as well as
start to edit it there.

19. Inspiration for my magazine front cover
(Concept art)

20. Summary of Research
Overall I found that my research went very well. The research that I found has helped me decide upon a
genre of magazine. I decide upon Gaming as there is lots to talk about. The research also helped me with
creating my practice version of my cover, double-page spread, and website. I found the research easy, as
the genre I have chosen, gaming, is a worldwide hobby. Therefore information was easy to gather on it.
The research has helped me look at magazines that I have never looked before, it has helped me discover
a wide range of gaming magazines as well as other magazines. The research part of the project helped
me to realize that the main gaming magazines are all very similar to each other. When looking at
magazines in general I found that the computer hardware magazines have similar parts in they’re
magazine to PC Gamers, pc parts section.

21. Proposal

22. Proposal

23. Bibliography
• https://howiesgraphicdesignblog.wordpress.com/2015/04/17/concept-art-and-illustration-presentation/
• https://www.slideshare.net/jefpiu/revista-pc-gamer-maro-2011
• http://www.waterstonesmagazines.com/PC-Gamer-Magazine-Subscription.cfm?s=2.14
• https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/840625086668805028/
• http://www.pcgamer.com
• https://pocketmags.com/pc-gamer-uk-edition-magazine/may-2015
• https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/
• http://www.futureplc.com/
• https://www.xbox.com/en-US/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_Official_Magazine_%E2%80%93_UK
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Xbox_Magazine
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Gamer
• https://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=110&page=2
• http://www.wix.com/freesitebuilder/hiker-
create?experiment_id=wix%5Ee%5E48420855580%5E1t1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIupij1uHy2AIVTLXtCh0i6AqIEAAYASAA
EgJ1h_D_BwE&utm_campaign=195454660%5E10375167100&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google

24. Front Page Test
I made my front page using Adobe Photoshop. It is only a
practice though, therefore I don’t need to go back and
edit it in the future. My opinions on this is that it looks like
a very cheaply made magazine cover. If this was my final
design I would change the whole design of it. I think that
the strengths of this work is the custom image I created
on Photoshop for the cover. It is of The Witcher 3: Wild
Hunt. I took one of the Witcher 3 covers and cut the main
character, Geralt out using numerous tools such as the
magic wand. Then I resized a image that I found from
Google of the Witcher 3’s landscape. My biggest weakness
is not adding enough text to the cover along with other
mini images. Even though I wanted to keep the cover
minimal and not clustered. I think that I should have
added more to the cover as it looks very bland and cheap.
I have learned that I need to spend more time on my front
page, looking at real, gaming magazine covers whilst
creating my own for inspiration.

25. Double Page Spread Test
I made the practise, double-page spread using
InDesign. I had never used InDesign before, so I
wasn’t too good at it. However, I learnt the
basics whilst making it. The strengths of my
work was that I included a title, an image, and
text. The weaknesses of my double-page spread
was that I didn’t include a lot of variety. It all
looked very plain and boring as it didn’t have
the text and images spread about. I have learnt
that I need to make the images vary in size as
well as the image itself. I will need to make sure
that the image isn’t too similar to the others I
have. I have also learnt to make the page look
like a gaming magazine page.

26. Website Test

27. I made my website using Wix.com, I found the
website complicated at first, but once I got the
hang of it, I found it easy. I chose a specific
template then started to edit the template to a
gaming website. I would say one of the strengths
of my website is the colours I have used
throughout the home page. There is a consistent
colour combination throughout the site. Another
strength is that I have made it look very
professional in my opinion. However, one of the
weaknesses is that I only made a homepage.
However, this was only a practise task that I was
asked to do. When making the website I used
‘Lorem Ipsum’ which is filler text and makes no
sense at all. This was a quick and easy way to fill in
empty spaces in the website, where I would want
information to go if it was my final design. From
making the website, I have learnt lots, that will
benefit me for the future, when I make my
website. One of the things that I have learnt is that
I must be visually appealing as well as make my
website look very professional. I need to
remember to reflect my gaming magazine
company, ‘BrainDead Magazines’. I will need to
use a good use of colour like in my practice
website as well as text that can be easily read. I
will need the website to have high resolution,
high-quality images. This will be a step closer to
making my website looking professional. I have
also learnt that I will need to make my website
easy and simple to navigate.

28. Idea Generation

29. Flat Plan, double-page spread:
IMAGE
Text
IMAGE
IMAGE
Information on the game, text.
IMAGE

30. Flat Plan, cover:
Name of my magazine company, my brand.
IMAGE
Title of the game advertised
Information
Information
Information
Small Image

31. Flat Plan, Website:
Name of my magazine company, my brand.
IMAGE
Title of the game advertised
Information
Menu
Information
Small Image
Top bar, dropdown menus
Image
TEXT
Coming Soon with images
and text
Text or images
BrainDead text and or logo

32. Style Sheet:
This will be the main colour of
my magazine and will be used
as the colour of the font.
This will be one of the main
colours I use along with white
and yellow. I will use this for
page backgrounds.
This will be another colour
that I will use a lot. I will use
this for may things in my
magazine, and website.
Curse of the Zombie font from Dafont.com
Creepsville font from Dafont.com
Infringement font from
Dafont.com
Zombie font from Dafont.com
Young Frankenstein font from Dafont.com
Mars Attacks font
from Dafont.com
Dark World font
from Dafont.com
The
Enemigo
font

33. Home Page of
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methods
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news
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news
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