First Video

I started off watching game trailers on YouTube to see how they are promoted in terms of what they show to the audience. I also found out that from the idea of 'we-media' many game companies promote their new game through social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. They also use YouTube to promote.

Note: Include analysis

Research & Planning

I started to carry out research on the games market to see what kind of games was popular. I also looked at advertisements for games in our chosen genre which have been promoted recently. This would help us to see the kind of techniques used in adverts. We also looked to see what kind of visual effects was used to make it appealing to the audience and how they sold their new game. We also learnt that it was important to ensure the advertisement was placed on social media pages so our target audience was able to give their feedback based on the advertisement. From this, we would then be able to continue improving our product in order to meet the needs of our target audience.

Welcome!

Welcome to my media blog. This is where all my research and planning will be posted. On this media project, I will be working with Joseph Downes to complete all the research and planning required to finish our chosen brief which is posted below.

Chosen Brief

The brief that we have chosen to do is below:

A promotion package for a new computer/video game, to include two TV advertisements, together with two of the following three options:

• the cover of the game’s package; 

• two hyperlinked pages from the game’s website; 

• a magazine advertisement for the game.

The two ancillary tasks we have chosen is the cover of the game's package and a magazine advertisement for the game