The document outlines Jay Birkin's initial plans for a personal project creating video game assets. Jay will create characters for a survival video game where 8 criminals work together in a city overrun by a virus. The characters will have supernatural abilities or high skills. Jay will develop the storyline, dialogue, and eerie sound effects. Jay created a mood board with horror/thriller images to influence the final product being created in Photoshop. The target audience is teenagers and young adults interested in a multiplayer online survival game. Jay chose not to do posters or graphic novels, having done posters before and finding images for novels too difficult.

1. Initial Plans
Jay Birkin

2. Mind Map
Personal
project Ideas
Graphic
Novels
Video Game
assets
Posters
For this project I
would create the
characters of the
video game and
make up a general
but very
entertaining story
line. I will have to
think about sound
and dialogue.
I will create a
storyline which
will read and
match up with
pictures that I
will make. Most
graphic novels
have heroes
and villains so
mine will also.
I will create posters of
a movie or TV show
because it advertises
the product the best.
I will think about the
colour and the style of
the poster.

3. Mind Map
Characters
Sound and
dialogue
Storyline
The city has been overrun due to
a virus and a team of 8 criminals
with powers have been sent in to
find a cure.
Genres will
either be
survival
action or
fantasy
maybe even
all together
The sounds in
the game are
going to be
eerie and
creepy thriller
sound effects
because
anything
could happen
at any minute A prison
transport plane
has fallen and
everyone has to
work together
to escape
The main characters to choose
from will be 7 different
criminals and 1 guard who led
to all of there arrests
The dialogue
will be very
deep voiced
and dark
Some of the characters have
supernatural abilities and
some are just highly skilled but
there is no customisation

4. Mood Board

5. Mood Board Analysis
Is there any repetition in the images you have collected?
Repeated colours/images styles/fonts/tone/mood
• Yes there is a lot of images of different things too do with games here but that’s
because my product is very similar to all of these. The genre of the images are very
horror/thriller. The pictures go into quite a few details about my game and they
show a dramatic effect towards the game and this will really interest the audience.
How will your mood board influence your final product?
• I am going to take most of the ideas from the mood board and put them together
to make my game. These are what some of my characters will look like but I will
make them myself of course. These images are not from any other games though
so I am not copying any ideas therefor my game should stand out.

6. Informal Proposal
Current Idea
Concept My game is going to be a survival game. It is an 8 player and you can play online with
people as the different characters following the storyline of getting out of the city
Type of
products you
would make
Video game assets such as my characters, the city area, the viral monsters
What you will
need to make
them
I am going to use Photoshop to create my product and also sketches
Audience My audience will be teenagers and young adults between the ages of 15-25. The
majority of gender playing my game will be Males however it is for females as well if
they wish to play

7. Choices
Discounted ideas Reasons for not choosing this
project
Posters • I did not choose this because I have
already made lots of posters before in
my first projects
Graphic novels • I chose not to do this because getting the
images would be way too hard