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1. Initial Plans
Mel Nuttall

2. Initial Reaction
My initial reaction was being quite relieved that the brief
was much more relaxed than I had expected, for I had been
worried than I wasn’t going to be able to choose between
making a short film or a magazine. I’d had the idea to
potentially use the theme of cosplay, since I knew that
could be broad enough to do both. But once I realised that I
could incorporate both elements into my one project, I
know that I’ll be able to add the elements of what I thought
I could do for either into one. Now I know that there is the
possibility to make:
• Magazine
• Photography portfolio
• Short animations
• Adverts/cosplay videos
• Merchandise

3. Initial Reaction
I know that the photography portfolio I will be able to
incorporate into the magazine with my own photos
since I and a few friends do our own cosplay. I know
that I am fairly skilled at photoshop and I can always
use online tutorials for that and for any animations or
videos I create in premiere or possibly even after
effects. I feel like this will be an interesting project that I
can use to create a broad range of different products
that I can do to a good quality.

4. Mind Map

5. Short Film
Pros
• Can take inspiration
from the short film I
made in previous
rotations
• Have experience
when editing film
together plus basic
special effects
Cons
• Will have to be an
original idea and
change the story to be
new
• Will have to make sure
all elements are
royalty free
• Will need to make sure
I can get actors who
are willing and able to
be in my production

6. Magazine
Pros
• Can take inspiration
from what I made in
the print rotation
• I have a better idea
of what is a good and
not a good idea to
use
Cons
• Already done
something similar so I
can’t repeat myself
• Magazines aren’t as
popular as they used
to be so I would have
to pay a lot of
attention to my target
audience and profiles.

7. Video
Pros
• Can use a similar
animation style to
keep a good quality
• The process of
creating the
animation is fairly
simple
Cons
• Will be difficult to
catch up on
production work at
home if it’s required
• Can’t use the same
idea as last time

8. Cosplay
Pros
• Could create several
different elements of my
ideas into the theme of
cosplay
• Can use knowledge from
previous rotations
combined for this theme
• There’s a lot of range on
cosplays that can be
included
Cons
• There won’t be a
huge variety of
cosplays since not a
lot of my friends do it
• Might not be able to
do everything that I
plan depending on
time and getting the
footage/photographs

9. Mind Map

10. Mood Board

11. Mood Board

12. Mood Board Vaughn and Rhys – Tales from the Borderlands

13. Mood BoardTracer - Overwatch

14. Red Riding Hood

15. Scarlet Witch - Marvel

16. Mood Board Analysis
Is there any repetition in the images you have collected? Repeated
colours/images styles/fonts/tone/mood
• The colours aren’t as repeated as they might have otherwise been,
since I purposefully had my mood boards to show a broad range off
different kinds of cosplay photos. And depending on the character,
the mood changes with each one too, although the general mood is
a happy one when they’re taken from a con. The staged and edited
ones seem a bit more serious and possibly more in character. That
does though depends on the style of photograph.
How will your mood board influence your final product?
• In my final products, I’ll know that I can give different moods from
pictures by how they are edited if at all and what setting the images
are taken. I can also take inspiration of what kinds of photographs
I’ll take and talk about.