REFLECTION OF YEAR 12 FINAL MAJOR PROJECT
Last year I picked a theme and idea that I thought was close and something that I would consider to improve and make better in the year 13 final major project, but it didn’t turn out exactly how I wanted. The design aspect was something I enjoyed and learned a lot from as well as the overall final home page and layout of the icons and tabs was something I really liked and was liked by the audience too. However, the final outcome of the idea to make something that will give you a perfect visualisation of something you want to buy without going out and spend a long time matching to your skin tone wasn’t executed as well I as I pictured it in my head and this was one of the weaker points. I think my context and pitching was very good for the project and I had a strong understanding of what I want to make and I was clear enough to make others understand what I want to create.
I have learned a lot from year 12 FMP(final major project) such as making sure that I will be to create something I have pictured in my head and make sure that it will look as good as I want it too. I have also learned that mentor might not always be in the same page so it is important to receive several opinions from different mentors to make sure the idea is clear to the target audience as well as audience overall.
MIND MAP
PROPOSAL
TREATMENT/SYNOPSIS
This project is about a game and a Korean boy band and what type of product they would make if they collaborated. This product is made for the game and it will be a skin(A champion skin refers to an alternate appearance (skin) and/or colour scheme (chroma) for any given League of Legends champion)1 the idea of this is to bring two of the big fan bases together to enjoy their time together and make the game even popular as well as promote BTS to the wide audience of League of Legends players. In the past League of Legends have collaborated with Korean and other countries pop stars to made skins and music. In this case, the skin will be made rather than the music aspect. The skin will be based on looks of one of the BTS members and the champion (character of the league of legends) will be someone who has not been involved in the past kpop collaborations.
I see this project being successful because of how popular both brands are and how the past product was popular and successful and still are.
1League of Legends Wiki. 2020. Champion Skin. [online] Available at: <https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Champion_skin#:~:text=A%20champion%20skin%20refers%20to,given%20League%20of%20Legends%20champion.> [Accessed 13 March 2020].
CONTINGENCY PLAN
BIF
Backstory
The idea for this FMP didn’t come to me straight away since both of the parties of the collaboration that I want to create were just hobbies and something I love yet keep it personal. I have been playing league of legends for about 3 years now and I met a lot of awesome and different t people there, different age groups different future paths different passions. Which made me realise how a game can make you meet some of the future best friends. besides league of legends, I have been a BTS fan for 7 years and the journey of the unknown and not popular group at the beginning to the worldwide sensation is absolutely inspiring and show how passion and love for what you are doing and who you are doing it with. As these two inspirational and loveable hobbies of mine, I decided to make something that hasn’t been done before. Create a skin* based of BTS for league of legends.
Opportunity
The key to this project is to make the world of gaming and music collide and turn into something powerful and beautiful. BTS with an amazingly massive fan base and league of legends with their passion for music through their recent collabs. League of legends have collaborated in the past with Korean pop music idols/artists and they were successful in my opinion and in the opinion of another league of legends players, so the product I want to make has a high chance of being very successful. Currently, BTS has a few gaming projects that involve BTS or made-up characters but they are not the same genre as the League of Legends, they are mainly for phone gaming, unlike League which is a PC based game.
Scope
This game is global and by making this collab it will reach a massive audience of both gamers and fans from all over the world. The idea is to make this skin limited edition and make it available from the month of the birthday of the member it is based on. And in the future, this can become a few times a year limited edition offer. It will more likely to become profitable since to buy the skin you need the coins which are mainly earned through in-game purchases.
Target audience
The target audience for both of the brands has a wide range but the peak of the audience is 15-25-year-old since they are mainly in education and use gaming as an easy way to socialise and to relieve stress as well as meet new people without leaving the house.
Constraints
The idea that I’m developing is mostly my individual work and doesn’t involve anyone from the outside. Few times I will be contacting my friends in-game to make sure their opinion about this collab is heard and to receive a better understanding of what they as the audience want to see. Problem that I might occur are mainly software such as crash or unsaved work as well as lack of drawing skill but In that case, I will try to perfect and use the skill of adobe software that I have to fix the issue.
Assumptions
I assume that this will be a loved project since the last time when they collaborated with the kpop idols they had a very positive reaction and the skins are very successful with sales and different unusual realistic looks.
Success
My product is something to be actually made and added to the game by the company and not me so the product will be on a level to pitch it to the actual company. But for this project I will be measuring success by the people reactions to it and how they like it or not and would they purchase it if it was available. This will show me that the design I have made Is loved by the targeted audience.
Envision
In the future, the ideal ending for this project would be being noticed by the company and them taking this idea and creating it as an in-game skin for the character I picked and make it something people will love and play. This will show that all the hard work and passion I have put into this project is enjoyed by thousands of players.
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