Marquee (P4, P5)

In this unit we are asked to use the skills we have acquired in a program such as Photoshop and use them for a particular need. This need was to make a marquee for a arcade cabinet that was built in Fareham College. The marquee had to be 74 x 23, and displaying the game the we created in unit 22.

This mind map shows of my ideas at its first stage, this is where my final design came from, I took points from my mind map and implemented them into the design, with a few extra changes to complete it.

My first idea was to have my character and the game name next to it, something similar to this.

However I didn't like how it failed to portray a pyramid, I felt that the marquee needed to show of a pyramid and some game play. I asked many of my peers if they liked it, and most of them said that is was also lacking the presence of a pyramid, in the title it contains a pyramid, and for a marquee the strongly recommend me adding it in somewhere, so I had to think of an alternative.

Next is my final idea.

This is my draft version of the final design

When I showed this version to my peers, they found it better than the original design yet it was quite plan and boring, they would also like to see some more relation to my game. They also wanted me to add my logo somewhere on the marquee, they said if your going to promote your game, you might aswell promote you logo to, so I added that in, and here is the next and final version.

This is the final version, I am pretty happy with it, I was trying to go for different layers in terms of the floor and bring more essence from my game into the marquee. I added clouds and my logo, however I'm not happy with the colour of the text, yet its the closest to being some what professional any other colours are are mainly on the over side of the colour spectrum and making it look horrible against the lighter blue. So this will remain this way as my final design. 

Download the marquee here