Media is a form of shared content that can either be digital or physical.

Media Studies is the study of different forms of media, such as magazines and videos, and how to produce these to an industry standard.

The point of media studies is to learn how to produce multiple forms of media to an industry standard.

I think studying media will help me to become proficient at creating thumbnails for videos and to help me improve my photoshop skills to improve my photos and videos.

Intentions and Ideas for The Sunday Gamer – James Rouault

The task of producing a cover of a magazine for gamers suited me as I used to game a lot and have a lot of friends that game. During our induction day we had some time in the lesson to produce a draft on paper. I used this draft to structure my design when I began to create it in Adobe Photoshop. Below is my draft and finished product; as you can see there are some changes, but they are very similar. However, it doesn’t look like a magazine cover.

So, I searched online for gaming magazine covers and this is what came up:

I noticed my cover didn’t look like any of the others; so, I started again having done a bit of research on what the magazine covers should look like.

A game I used to play a lot was Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege, so I found a portrait image to go as the image on my cover as I had noticed all the others had one larger image that filled the cover.

Then I added the name for my magazine, The Sunday Gamer. I had seen a lot of the covers put the text behind the head of a character if there was one. So, I watched a YouTube tutorial on how to do this.

I then went back to my previous cover and looked at what I put around the sides of the cover to see what I could reuse. So, I kept the free Envavo Heatbuff for when you subscribe to the magazine and the article on what is the best gaming phone. I put these in the red banner at the top of the cover. I then found new images as I didn’t like the old ones and wanted to get rid of the background, so it is just the product on the red banner as this is a clean and professional look.

I then put in the bottom left corner another hint at an article in the magazine that is about the new Oculus Quest which is a VR headset that has no wires.

I then went on the Ubisoft website to find out the latest news on Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege and there is a new season coming in the next couple of weeks, so I said I was making an article about what is expected of the new series.

I thought of the name for the magazine as I work at M&S St John as my Saturday job so I looked at the papers and saw a lot have daily in the title however no teen would buy a magazine daily, so I thought go weekly, I then saw that the daily papers offer a special Sunday edition. Therefore, I came up with the name ‘The Sunday Gamer’. It could be sold as a separate magazine on Sundays or it could be a supplement in one of the Sunday papers.

Once I had the name, I decided to make a logo for it using Adobe Illustrator. I came up with the idea to put the name of the magazine into a TV/monitor as to play any games you need a screen.

I chose the font Bebas Neue as it is blocky and chunky as gives a style that is similar to what games often use.