Media Summer Task
For my magazine cover I first off had to choose a game, I had decided on the Injustice universe games. The first game’s title is “Injustice: God’s among us” and the sequels title is “Injustice 2”. Both games go off of the storyline of the Superhero ‘Superman’ becoming evil and being the main antagonist in the first game as well as the second game.
Because of this I decided to put him in the center of my magazine cover with red glowing eyes, ready to shoot heat vision. To get the image I went onto Google images and picked an image that I thought would capture his evil essence. However, because I did this with all my images I don’t know if they have any copyright claims that any owners could potentially use against me and therefore sue me.
Because there is an antagonist on the cover there must also be the protagonist, in this case it is Batman. Batman also feels as if he is partly to blame for why Superman has become evil. Because of this I wanted to get an image of Batman not looking happy or sad, however I did get an image of him looking very determined and serious. I decided to put Batman’s layer over Superman’s layer because it generally went well with the aesthetic and overall looks better if it were the other way around. Batman is wearing his second game costume as it represents he is a new man from who he was before.
The last and final superhero character that is on the front cover is ‘The Flash’. I chose ‘The Flash’ because in the first game he is an Antagonist somewhat against his will. Yet, in the second game he has been given a redemption and is on his way to becoming a Superhero once again. I decided to choose a picture of him of him running for two main reasons:
- Reason number one is because it’s simply his ‘superpower’ and it makes sense of him to be using his abilities like Superman and Batman with his utility belt.
- Reason number two is because it can be representative of him on his ‘run to redemption’ and once again becoming one of the good guys.
For the background I decided to pick an image of ‘Gotham city’ with the Bat torch being shone into the sky. I chose this because it shows the Batman is being in need of service to help save the day. It also shows that Batman is needing to protect his home city where he grew up and protect the ones he loves.
I chose to include a Pan European Game Information (PEGI) rating of 16. PEGI is to help European consumers make decisions when buying items like video games. This rating specifically is to alert the audience that there may be some strong violence and is an action game. This means that young children are recommended not to play it. It also means that if you are under the age of 16 you won’t be able to buy the game in stores.
Iconic signs:
- PEGI 16 Logo. This links to who should be playing the game.
- Batman Logo (in the Background). This links to heroism.
- Flash Logo (on the Flash suit). The symbol looks like lightning.
- Superman Logo (On the superman logo). This links to heroism.
Indexical signs:
- Batman holding his grappling hook. This links to violence.
- Superman and his eye lasers. This links to violence.
- PEGI 16 Logo. This shows that it’s specific to a certain target audience due to the violence and sensitive issues in the game.
Symbolic signs: