Media Studies NEA – gaming front cover 

I intend to name the gaming magazine ‘’Azeroth Times’’ as I am trying to make the magazine based off the MMORPG game called ‘’World of Warcraft’’. For the masthead I intend to use a font commonly used within the game and I will include a shield similar to the one used within the ”World of Warcraft game front cover.This shield will be placed behind the ‘’Azeroth times’’ title to make the masthead more appealing and eye catching. In the gaming magazine front cover I plan to target the role playing games community as it is a broad audience which would perfectly suit a gaming magazine.To target the role playing games community, I have decided to create a character within the program ‘’Fuse’’ that will resemble an Orc from the game that I am basing my front cover on, and I will use the character as my main image in the front cover.The character will be positioned in a running pose in order to look more ferocious and grab the consumers attention.Behind the character I will add 3D effects which such as a drop shadow and a crack within the background in order to add more noise within the background of the gaming magazine cover as I believe it would be much more bland otherwise. To add onto the theme of World of Warcraft, I’m going to use a background which resembles an old piece of parchment as it will relate to the role playing games community more due to many of their games being based off fantasy worlds with swords,dragons and other mythical creatures.Along the sides of the main image I am going to add cover lines that will give insight info about what information the magazine includes. In order to appeal to my target audience more these cover lines will mention information that a role playing games community member would find interesting. For example I will mention in game competitions,guides and prizes to be won or redeemed within the game. I also plan to add a puff which will say ‘’chance to win a World of Warcraft token’’ as this will further interest my target audience and persuade them to purchase my product. The text within the puff will appeal to the target audience as it informs them that they can win 1 months worth of game subscription for the game ‘’World of Warcraft’’.