Thursday, 11 March 2010

XBOX 360 MAGAZINE TWO PAGE SPREAD














Colour:The colours used are very dark and dingy greens and blacks to give the impression of a old and evil forest which isn't exactly natural.The colour blue is used in the two images once for the colour of a alien type plant which has a kind of ambient glow indicating its not natural or of this planet which establishes the fact that this game is set on another planet.The second time it is used is for the electricity coming out of the characters hands it is also outlined by the colour white which gives it the look of lighting which makes it look evil and explosive.The final colour that is used is the colour is is used for the text boxes on the right hand side of each page this particular colour is used because the colour red in the star wars universe represents the dark side which is the focus of the game so it has a real significance on the page.

Design:The design style for these two pages is done in such a way that the text is completely separate to the images so that the text can be easily read and doesn't effect the image in anyway.Pictures of characters are on put on the right hand side of the two pages set in a descending style with a relevant short paragraph of text accompanying them on the left of each image.The style of the two pages is done in artwork style as the two images are placed onto a plain black background to simulate two artwork drawings placed on a black canvas.
Images:The image on the first page of the double page spread is showing an alien like forest which tells us that what they are showing us isnt natural and is purely fictional.The colours usd in the images are very dingy colours such as grays and dark greens but their is then a blue ambient glowing plant which yet again says to the reader it isnt natural.The image on the second page is of a man shooting lightning out into a forest wtih people flying thtough the air which shows he is extremly powerful and capable of things that people would not normally be able to do.The image of him doing these leaves the reader to decide who he is,what he is and why he is killing the people.
Pose,style,hair,make-up:The character on the left side of the page seems to be standing in just a standing pose of standing straight upwards with his arms pointed out towards the forestshootinf lightning ,The style type of the character i would say is kind of evil type as he is not wearing any nice clothes and the clothes he is wearing seems to be like combat type clothes as their is a lot of ragged and torn bits of cloth hanging off of it so this gives the idea that he is maybe a evil person that does a lot of fighting and killing.
How are the words used:The words used in in the double page seem to be very big impact words such as Make That Game! which shows that their is some very big hype about this game and people are the developers are very excited about it.
Language:The language used is aimed at the people who know about games as only they would understand some of the words used such as,NPCs and three ky collaborations.If somebody else read this page they wouldnt understand what the writer was talking about at all so it wouldnt interest them,language like this interests the audience of video game players as it makes them feel individual as they are the only people that can understand this type of language.
Overall Impression:I think the way the two page spread portrays the sinsiterness of iteself towards the reader is very good as it dosent give too much away and leaves it open to thought so the reader has to work out for himself whats going on,if the character is eveil or not,where he is,who he is.The pages are very well aimed at the video game type reader due to all of the factors that are added in such as,lightning coming from the mans hand,a strange place,and somthing completly fictional that tis type of reader can relate to.

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