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Existing ProductThe image consists of only two colours a yellow to show the detail of the colour and then the black fills the blanks but also the entire t-shirt is black. Then there is bold letters saying I am the hype but the yellow in the writing looks like its fading in places which gives it a very unique look and this is also from a tv series which was parodied on youtube with funnier dialogue. The yellow was used to make it stand out from the black, so with this design it will make it eye catching to passers by and also will make people who are interested in the series and this would appeal to the fans and others who like the look of them.

This design would appeal to my audience because it is a fictional character that my audience wants to see in my product, also it has no background and it has a different design to a rotoscope, this design is more of a silhouette but with facial feature. I think the audience would buy it because it matches what they want to see my produce.

Existing ProductThis t-shirt will be the style I will try and replicate for my product but instead of looking a sketch it will be a rotoscope with dark colours such as the dark sketching lines then the actual t-shirt will be a white. Also the batman is front facing but slightly to the right but also there are silhouettes of bats in the distance but there is no background which I don’t want to include on my designs, also there is shading on batman representing where the light can’t reach and gives it that extra detail. The sketch is only black and white showing no colour or anything. There are no fonts included.

This will appeal to my audience because it reaches all the requirements on what they want to see in my product such as the characters and the no background, then it has either black or white as a default colour for the shirt also in my opinion the audience would buy this shirt as it well designed and looks great.

Existing Product

The type of image is iron man from the comics from around the 1990s the image is also center of the shirt and ironman stands out as it looks like he is coming out of the square and the font is bold and is white with a drop shadow which is red and the detail on iron man makes him look really metallic and the only difference is that this design has a background and I plan on not using a background but the colour of the shirt which is blue compliments the colours of ironman and the small details.

This would but at the same time wouldn’t because of the back ground included but the reasons why it would appeal is because it is a fictional character in the center I think people would buy as it is rather eye catching.

Existing ProductThis design is a copy of the first comic with superman which was produced in 1938 there are limited colours because of the lack of coloured ink back then, also it is bright colours on a dark shirt colour which looks like a navy blue, it also is a direct copy of the cover only difference is that they took the date off it from when it was released. But only difference to this and what I will produce is that mine will not have a back ground. The image is also in the center off the shirt. I think people would also buy this because they may like the retro things and they also maybe fans of superman but my audience may not buy this because of the design as it is not what they are looking for.

Research Analysis

• What common features do the researched products have?– All the products have a fictional character present on it and

it’s always near enough in the centre of the T-shirt where everyone can see it and all the designs are all catching too.

• What aspects of the research will you include within your on work?– I will include the aspects of the super heroes/fictional

characters within my work, I will also make my designs eye catching. The actual shirt will be a dark colour also.

Questionnaire Analysis

Audience research• Observation: 27% of my audience were female and 73% of the audience were male which responded to my questions.• What this says about my audience: This says that the majority are males and there’s only a small amount of females that responded to my questionnaire.• How will your product appeal to this

audience: I will make sure my product will appeal more to the male audience but I will make sure it will appeal to the female audience. I will include things that both genders like .

Audience research• Observation: For this question the majority of the people are aged between 16-19 which was 94% and then there was 6% of the people that are aged 20+• What this says about my audience: This shows that the majority of people are between 16 and 19 years of age which I would of based my product around that age group, if people that are younger then that they are still allowed to wear the T-shirt. • How will your product appeal to this

audience: My product will appeal by making sure that I think of my target audience whilst producing my product so that I know it will appeal to them. Rather than not meeting my audience which would be a disaster.

Audience research• Observation: In this question 64% of people said they would like to just see one person Rotoscoped then 36% would like to see a group of people Rotoscoped.• What this says about my audience:This shows that my audience wants to see one person Rotoscoped instead of a group, with one it will have a lot of detail and if it is one single person it won’t have other characters and won’t be as detailed• How will your product appeal to this

audience:I will make sure my product will only include one character so it is very detailed and nothing will obscure it and I will also make sure it looks very professional so it won’t look like a student produced it.

Audience research• Observation:For this question the responses I got were 64% want to the rotoscopes , then 36% of the people don’t want to see rotoscopes incorporated into a T-shirt design.• What this says about my audience:This shows that my audience wants to see the work I did beforehand transferred onto a T-shirt, so I will put on my rotoscope once I have completed it.• How will your product appeal to this

audience:My product will appeal to my audience by doing the rotoscope first then transferring it to a template of a T-shirt, then it will be all done also I will make sure that the T-shirt will have different colours to choose from.

Audience research• Observation:In the response for this question my audience said that they’d like to see designs other than rotoscopes and 82% said yes and the other 18% said no.• What this says about my audience:That the audience wants to see designs other than rotoscopes so I could possibly do some filters/effects on images or even implement pixel art into a design, as other designs are what the audience would like to see.• How will your product appeal to this

audience:I will make sure to think up of some other designs that won’t take as long as the rotoscope and something simple and will stand out which will be my intention as I want people to see a unique design to what have already been produced.

Audience research• Observation:Most of the people that responded want to see Batman rotoscoped out of the three heroes I mentioned, for Batman there were 73% that choose him then it was 18% wanted to Ant-man then finally 9% for War Machine.• What this says about my audience:This shows that Batman is the most popular character to the audience out the three that were mentioned and would rather see a very iconic hero rotoscoped.• How will your product appeal to this

audience:To make sure my product appeals to my audience I will rotoscope Batman for the T-shirt design I could also use the other heroes as other designs that aren’t rotoscopes but will have a different effect/filter so they are used also.

Audience research• Observation:In the observation I have made for this response I have found that 64% of the people want to see just the character on the T-shirt and 36% want to see a background as well.• What this says about my audience:This shows that my audience wants to see just the character without the background so they are more interested in the character that will be the eye catcher and not the detail of the background which won’t be the thing that catches the eye of people buying it• How will your product appeal to this

audience:My product will appeal to my audience by creating the rotoscope without a background and just the character I would also make sure that the T-shirt is a solid colour or might see if a faded colour would work with the rotoscope.

Audience research• Observation:This is the observation to see if the audience would like to see celebrities rotoscoped as well as fictional characters as well and 45% of the people said yes and 55% said no to real people.• What this says about my audience:This says that audience prefer to see a fictional character on a T-shirt more than a real person, which I know is more suitable because there is not many shirts I know of with a real person that isn’t a character in a film.• How will your product appeal to this

audience:My product will appeal to my audience I will only do fictional characters so it will appeal, I will make sure all the T-shirts are unique and different to designs that are designed by professionals.

Interviews

Interview 1Would you like to see the Batman rotoscope front view or on a side? Explain why?I think I would like to see it front view so that you can see all the detail in the rotoscope. I think also this way you can put more in the rotoscope as in my opinion I think if it was just a side view you wouldn't’t have as much as if it was a front view.

What colours do you want the T-shirt to be? And why?I think I would like the t-shirt colour to be white because depending on what you rotoscope I think it would make it stand out more for example the colours within the rotoscope. I think another colour that I think the t-shirt could be is black but it would depend on what the rotoscope will be off. So if the rotoscope was quiet light in colour I think a black t-shirt would make the colour in the rotoscope seem brighter.

Is there any other designs you would like to see and why?Another thing that I would like to see is you doing pictures where they are pretty much in two colours by using filters and things on Photoshop. I think something else that you could rotoscope other then batman is Thor from avengers because I think that would be a good challenge to do but it may be hard and complicated. I think another thing that you could maybe rotoscope is red hood.

Interview 1• Observation:I used these questions to gain more information on how to make my product, for the first question I asked if they would rather see rotoscope of batman to be a side view or a front facing view and they responded with front facing because it will allow me to get more detail within my work. For the question I asked what colour they want the t-shirt to be and they responded with either the t-shirt should be white or black depending what I rotoscope and for the questions I asked if there is any other designs that they’d like to see and the answered with is I could do the comic art style of work on photoshop with a character and possibly rotoscope thor and use my red hood rotoscope

• What this says about my audience:My audience shows that they would rather see detail and quality of my rotoscopes and other designs instead of quantity of products produced. And that they would like to have some input on what they want to see within the designs such as other techniques on photoshop and other fictional characters.

• How will your product appeal to this audience:I will make sure in my product that I will try and rotoscope thor within my time and use the other technique for my product, also to make sure my red hood rotoscope on a t-shirt also to use black and white for the default colours to see the designs on.

Interview 2Would you like to see the Batman rotoscope front view or on a side? Explain why?I think that it would be good to see it on a side view as you will then be able to see more detail.

What colours do you want the T-shirt to be? And why? black because it’s the original colours

Is there any other designs you would like to see and why? Yes to see how other colours work and fit in.

Interview 2• Observation:For the first question I asked which was would you like to see the rotoscope of batman on a front view or side view and they responded to it by saying they would rather see it on a side view as they want to see more detail, and then for the second question their answer was what colours they’d want the t-shirt and they said black as it would match batman but I think it should be white so that the details on batman stand out more then the final question which was what other designs would you like to see other than rotoscopes and they responded with yes to see how other colours work and fit in.

• What this says about my audience:This says that my audience want to see a different design to my first interview and other colours but didn’t specify what other designs they want to see so because of that I will choose some designs and see if they like the other designs which will use different techniques

• How will your product appeal to this audience:I will make sure my product will appeal to this audience by doing what they want to see in design wise such as the side view of batman with the black colours and see if there are other colours I could use but I will choose a different design for them.

Audience ProfileCategory Demographic Content to appeal to this audience

Age RangeI would recommend my product to 14+

I recommended this age because of the shirt designs may not be able to understand or make a connection with it as people younger always change what they like which will be something different every month. So if they are older they are definitely certain on what they enjoy.

GenderMy product should appeal to both genders.

I also thought that some of my designs would be great for people of both genders as it doesn’t matter as both can be interested in superheroes and other fictional characters with the title of hero.

PsychographicMy product would and should be more suitable for emulators

I would make my products suitable for emulators by making it something that everyone can wear have something common with other people with the same t-shirt. Then people can talk about it and share their opinions in their group.

Social StatusI would make sure my product is socially balanced.

To make sure I make my product socially balanced I need to make sure I make it eye catching for both social statuses so they will buy it, also I will need to make it very creative and unique.

Research Evaluation

Research Evaluation• Give an overview of how you conducted your research. Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of

each method – Product ResearchThe product research is a great way to see existing work from professionals which will also give you some inspiration to work from which is always a great thing to do but put your own spin on it and change it to suit your criteria so it appeals to your target audience. So with the four products I have looked at I have gained some insight to help me with my product.Then the weaknesses is that if there were no products that are similar to your own or you couldn’t find any you would have to use a different design to what you researched or keep looking for the designs but then the research may not help you with the work for the product.– QuestionnairesI found that doing the questionnaires were useful with finding simple answers to questions you want answered, such as a guide line to making a great final product, also the website used to do the questionnaires is a very simple method to create a questionnaire and have people answer it as a lot of people use this website for jobs and other things.The weaknesses to this solution of questionnaires is that it can be rather frustrating with finding the right tick box, text box or multiple choice questions, it can be very problematic to getting it distributed once finished from the website. You have to get the URL for it and then send it to the tutor sometimes it can be confusing to get results from it once you have accumulated enough results– InterviewsIt is a great way to find qualitive answers which give a more in depth responses to questions you want to hear which will make producing the final product or products much more simpler with the more information one or two people have given you, answers can be very detailed and you will have to comb through it to find the answers which will best help with the production.Then the problem with this method is that it can be difficult to find people to do the interviews and answer the questions. Also some people may not give enough information to help with creating the final product but you will have to find the useful information within one sentence answers.

Research Evaluation– What sort of a response did you get?For my survey I got really good responses as I have to is do fictional characters as rotoscopes and other designs without doing a background, all the responses went in my favour, so for me that will make my production a lot easier as I can work on rotoscopes and other designs in class and do all the word and powerpoint documents at home.

– How did you distribute your survey? Give an advantage and a disadvantageI distributed my survey by sending the link to my questions to my tutor who then put it on blackboard so that people in the course could answer it, the advantage of this is that it is controlled and isn’t very difficult to know when someone has answered it as we had to do it all together. Then the disadvantage is that anyone could answer it and it would mean a hassle with having unwanted data from people that don’t know about it and maybe hard for people who speak a different language to understand.