Friday, 11 March 2011
Evaluation
I've enjoyed this week and found it to be very influential. The only thing that I would have changed about this week is that we could have spent less time on out articels and spent more time on developing the layout of the pages. I also learnt how to use my grammar in my writing better and I have always checked through everything I've written including this evaluation, I have also learnt how to write headlines. I think that most of the week went well and if something like this came up again, I would jump in, head first.
Thursday, 10 March 2011
Research
all the research I did on the project:
Quotes:
"Gaming can take us out of the worries of real life and take us into another kind of world without the hassle of it affecting our real life worries” - Anonymous Gamer
"What is this outside you speak of?" - Obsessive gamer when questioned: "when was the last time you went outside?"
"Outside, is that a new Role Playing Game?" - Obsessive gamer when questioned: "when was the last time you went outside?"
"I've got a Kinect for the Xbox 360, which means I don't have to go outside anymore!" – a gamer who has just recently brought a Kinect
“They’ve made of game of Doctor Who, now I don’t have to watch TV to see Doctor Who.” – Doctor Who/Gamer Obsessive
"Who can spend all their time on games when there are more important things to do" - Friend/Shop addict
"I want a 3DS, but I'm going to wait till the price goes down a bit" - Student Gamer
"I wish we never brought your brother that Megadrive, look what it's turned him into!" - My mom
“I got myself an Kinect, so I don’t have to walk over to the door, open it and go outside, I can skip all that and just switch on the Xbox and get straight to the exercise, who needs all that oxygen anyway.” – Gamer who likes exercise but hates outdoors
“If I wasn’t playing on games, I would be bored and I hate been bored” – 10 year old sister whose older brother encouraged her into gaming by letting her watch that once.
“I wished he’s get off that thing so I can use the television for a change” – Dad who likes TV
“Wow! Look at the graphics out here, they’re amazing!” – Obsessive game who I told to go outside
“I tried to play Sudoku once, let’s just say it ended badly” – Xbox gamer
“Sudoku, Isn’t that maths with boxes? I like boxes, they contain items that help me regain health” – Idiot gamer
Quotes:"Gaming can take us out of the worries of real life and take us into another kind of world without the hassle of it affecting our real life worries” - Anonymous Gamer
"What is this outside you speak of?" - Obsessive gamer when questioned: "when was the last time you went outside?"
"Outside, is that a new Role Playing Game?" - Obsessive gamer when questioned: "when was the last time you went outside?"
"I've got a Kinect for the Xbox 360, which means I don't have to go outside anymore!" – a gamer who has just recently brought a Kinect
“They’ve made of game of Doctor Who, now I don’t have to watch TV to see Doctor Who.” – Doctor Who/Gamer Obsessive
"Who can spend all their time on games when there are more important things to do" - Friend/Shop addict
"I want a 3DS, but I'm going to wait till the price goes down a bit" - Student Gamer
"I wish we never brought your brother that Megadrive, look what it's turned him into!" - My mom
“I got myself an Kinect, so I don’t have to walk over to the door, open it and go outside, I can skip all that and just switch on the Xbox and get straight to the exercise, who needs all that oxygen anyway.” – Gamer who likes exercise but hates outdoors
“If I wasn’t playing on games, I would be bored and I hate been bored” – 10 year old sister whose older brother encouraged her into gaming by letting her watch that once.
“I wished he’s get off that thing so I can use the television for a change” – Dad who likes TV
“Wow! Look at the graphics out here, they’re amazing!” – Obsessive game who I told to go outside
“I tried to play Sudoku once, let’s just say it ended badly” – Xbox gamer
“Sudoku, Isn’t that maths with boxes? I like boxes, they contain items that help me regain health” – Idiot gamer
Development of article...
For my development I used a picture of a pile of books and played around with different layouts.
This is development of playing with different colours overall i'm very happy with what i have produced, I think if it did go in the Feed magazine, I would use a different picture as I didnt have enough time.
This is my final design.
Artical Layout Preview
Work on progress. I drew the Wii-mote myself on photoshop, I think it's very cartoon-y-ish.
Finished Version, Huzzah!Wednesday, 9 March 2011
Development of final article.
This was how the group generated ideas based on questions if we had a magazine. We came up with a title, target audience, what it would look like and who it who its competitors would be. 
I firstly drafted the first couple of lines for my article, wrote down my research and thought about how it would all fit together.
Once i had finished it, I looked throught it and edited it.
This is how it looked before i made my final changes.
Healine Help
If anyone can suggest anymore ideas then the ones that I've got now, it'll be very helpful
Headline ideas:
Why are you so obsessed with Wii?
Thwii, is the magic number
Halo: Reach for the controller
Press “A” to start the article
I Wii-ly like gaming
If you’re reading this, you’re not a gamer
Wow! Look at the graphics on this page they’re amazing!
Loading…
Player 1… GO!
Respawn in 5…4…3…
My Xbox brings all the boys to the yard
Headline ideas:
Why are you so obsessed with Wii?
Thwii, is the magic number
Halo: Reach for the controller
Press “A” to start the article
I Wii-ly like gaming
If you’re reading this, you’re not a gamer
Wow! Look at the graphics on this page they’re amazing!
Loading…
Player 1… GO!
Respawn in 5…4…3…
My Xbox brings all the boys to the yard
Why you so obsessed with Wii?
No, i'm not going with that title... maybe I might but not for the moment
He woke up the morning, glancing at the Xbox controller that he tossed aside the night before, he sluggishly picks it up, switches on his Xbox and spends another day, doing what he always does, his obsession.
Gaming has been around since 1972, when a console called: “The Odyssey”, was released and ever since then, gaming has advanced further than anybody over 30 had expected, under 30’s kind of expected it. It has since then become an entertainment value to all, to some people though, gaming is an obsession, a passion to strive for and the only thing in life that can keep them going, day by day.
As I browsed the internet for my research, I found a website that had a blog, a blog which contained from and image that had been print screened while on Amazon for a product for adult diaper, below with the Frequently Brought Together section was an image of the product on the page and a game called: Call of Duty 4, which itself just proves how far some people will go to play games all day, without any interruptions what so ever, even daily needs, kind of sad how the world has come, to a world where skills that are learnt during youth, are ditch for such an obsession.
I also found a forum and in this forum, I found a thread that gamers were talking about games in general, and somehow less obsessive gamers had found this thread. When these people mentioned if these obsessive people had been outside, there only responses were things like: "What is this outside you speak of?" and "Outside, is that a new Role Playing Game?", so one person took it to their liberty to tell them to “Go outside” and one gamer took the challenge and came back with the response: “Wow! Look at the graphics out there, they’re amazing!” Can anyone encourage these gamers off their chairs and experience the movement of their bodies and the feel of fresh air?
Yes because Nintendo did something clever and invented the Wii, which would require effort such as moving your arm, and moving both your arms, both these efforts required the gamers to stand up, but whenever you see the adverts for Mario Kart, JLS were sitting down, so deifier of logic win?
There are even games that can educate you as well such as: “How old is your Brain” which is a game that makes you do English, Math’s and all sorts of questions that help you to improve your brain age and make you more intelligent, but what is this compared to Halo? You can’t kill anything except your stupidity, I mean killing freaky alien things on a faraway planet is so much better math’s, silly creators, no one likes school, Killings aliens is more addictive then Sudoku, if your under 30.
However, Microsoft came up with a clever idea to help encourage lazy obsessive gamers, the Xbox 360’s Kinect, which is a camera, which you stick on top of your 42” HD TV, the user acts as a controller, so the user will have no other choice but to stand up. The Kinect has had positive review as it encourages even the laziest of gamers to stand up, quotes such as: "I've got a Kinect for the Xbox 360, which means I don't have to go outside anymore!" and also “I got myself an Kinect, so I don’t have to walk over to the door, open it and go outside, I can just skip all that and just switch on the Xbox and get straight to the exercise, who needs all that oxygen anyway.
And as the darkness falls onto the world, he continues his gaming into the cold and dark of the night, until eventually sleep takes over his obsession.
He woke up the morning, glancing at the Xbox controller that he tossed aside the night before, he sluggishly picks it up, switches on his Xbox and spends another day, doing what he always does, his obsession.
Gaming has been around since 1972, when a console called: “The Odyssey”, was released and ever since then, gaming has advanced further than anybody over 30 had expected, under 30’s kind of expected it. It has since then become an entertainment value to all, to some people though, gaming is an obsession, a passion to strive for and the only thing in life that can keep them going, day by day.
As I browsed the internet for my research, I found a website that had a blog, a blog which contained from and image that had been print screened while on Amazon for a product for adult diaper, below with the Frequently Brought Together section was an image of the product on the page and a game called: Call of Duty 4, which itself just proves how far some people will go to play games all day, without any interruptions what so ever, even daily needs, kind of sad how the world has come, to a world where skills that are learnt during youth, are ditch for such an obsession.
I also found a forum and in this forum, I found a thread that gamers were talking about games in general, and somehow less obsessive gamers had found this thread. When these people mentioned if these obsessive people had been outside, there only responses were things like: "What is this outside you speak of?" and "Outside, is that a new Role Playing Game?", so one person took it to their liberty to tell them to “Go outside” and one gamer took the challenge and came back with the response: “Wow! Look at the graphics out there, they’re amazing!” Can anyone encourage these gamers off their chairs and experience the movement of their bodies and the feel of fresh air?
Yes because Nintendo did something clever and invented the Wii, which would require effort such as moving your arm, and moving both your arms, both these efforts required the gamers to stand up, but whenever you see the adverts for Mario Kart, JLS were sitting down, so deifier of logic win?
There are even games that can educate you as well such as: “How old is your Brain” which is a game that makes you do English, Math’s and all sorts of questions that help you to improve your brain age and make you more intelligent, but what is this compared to Halo? You can’t kill anything except your stupidity, I mean killing freaky alien things on a faraway planet is so much better math’s, silly creators, no one likes school, Killings aliens is more addictive then Sudoku, if your under 30.
However, Microsoft came up with a clever idea to help encourage lazy obsessive gamers, the Xbox 360’s Kinect, which is a camera, which you stick on top of your 42” HD TV, the user acts as a controller, so the user will have no other choice but to stand up. The Kinect has had positive review as it encourages even the laziest of gamers to stand up, quotes such as: "I've got a Kinect for the Xbox 360, which means I don't have to go outside anymore!" and also “I got myself an Kinect, so I don’t have to walk over to the door, open it and go outside, I can just skip all that and just switch on the Xbox and get straight to the exercise, who needs all that oxygen anyway.
And as the darkness falls onto the world, he continues his gaming into the cold and dark of the night, until eventually sleep takes over his obsession.
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