1. Product Presentation
Name: Joseph Gore

2. Introduction
My name is Joseph Gore and these are the planning stages that I went through in order to create my poster that would be promoting the Bit Crush event.
The Bit Crush event is a charity games festival that is held by the college’s media department every year in the later half of November and features raffles, competitions, cosplay, stalls that are selling things like books, small electronics, plush toys, game consoles and video games. The event originally started out as a gaming tournament a few years ago and over the years became the event that it is now.
The money that has been earnt by the event is then sent to the charity Demelza where the money that was collected by the event would then used to help families who have children with a serious or fatal illness cope with specialist care and emotional support for the child, their parents and their family.

3. The Plan for the Product
However due to technical issues with the computer and the file containing the product, I was unable to access the file so I had to start a new poster from scratch.
The new poster that is now the final product was going to be split into three parts. The first and third part would contain the title and relevant information which used the same fonts and colours from the previous version, while the center would contain the video game characters.
Overall I would say that the product was going to be effective at attracting people to the event.
My plan for the final product was going to be a black background with five bars of different colours (Red, Blue, Yellow, Green and Purple) with iconic video game characters at the top of them near the center of the poster.
This was to be surrounded by the necessary information about the event like where it is located and when is it taking place which would be at the top and bottom of the coloured bars.
The text which will be the information will be in a light green colour and would be in the font Quartz Ms and the title would be in Bauhaus 93.

4. Plan – Mind Map Slide 41
This is the mind map that I came up with for my final product which allowed me to work out what would be necessary for the product.
I split the ideas for the product off into different areas that would lead to my idea for the final design.
I had the necessary information on there because it was going to be a key and mandatory part of the poster in order for it to be complete.
The target audience and style were added to know who the event was targeted at and what design of the product could potentially work to draw them towards the event.
I added the colour palettes so that I would know what colours I would be using to create the poster.
The route that leads to the game characters was added so that I would be able to select what game characters I would utilize for the final product and its overall design.

5. Plan – Mood Board Slide 42
This is the mood board that I came up with and it mainly features some of the characters and logos that I have both used in the final product and those that were considered to be on the product.
The characters that I chose to place on here are characters that I believe a large amount of people will know about and can easily recognize due to how iconic they are today whether they are old classics or are created within the last few years.
Some of the characters that I placed on the mood board that I might have selected for the final product were Link, Eevee, Ryu, Master Chief, Crash Bandicoot, Sly Cooper and Morgan Freeman.
These were chosen due to their popularity and how iconic the characters are with gamers but I felt that they would not work with the design I had for the product.

6. Plan – Assets Slide 49
These are the assets that I chose out of those on my mood board to be a part of the final product.
These characters were chosen by a combination of being iconic game characters that can easily be recognized, that they would work well with the overall design of the poster and that they are some of the game franchises that I and many others have played over the years.
I chose Mario due to how he is the most well known game character, I chose Pacman, Mega Man and a Space Invader to have some old school characters from the 80s, I chose Sonic due to his popularity and rivalry with Mario during the 90s, I chose Pikachu because of how popular Pokémon is to this day and the recent release the newest game for the franchise and Kirby was chosen due to his popularity and how his design worked well to fit in the final product.

7. The Final Product

8. Evaluations
The evaluations I received from both myself and my peers within the class have given me some ideas that I could utilize if I had to create this product again alongside the ideas that they liked and would keep.
The parts of the poster that they liked were the easily recognisable game characters, how the title and text stood out from the background and how the poster was arranged overall.
The parts that they though could be improved upon was that the characters could have been spaced apart more and that the poster could have used a different perspective.