Sadly as I've left Bath College the original website I wanted to show that would display all of the work I had done on the project is no more. Thankfully the video and some supporting evidence still exist within the forms of draft ideas and sketches for the designs as well as evidence of me gathering data from various sources.

The main take aways I want people to get from this project is the understanding of research and being able to develop that data visually for audiences to interpret with ease and comfort. I feel through the project I slowly became more aware of this as I gathered data and started to decided where and how to present it all coherently. 

to begin upon this bigger project we first had to pitch and present ideas forward to our teachers, as this isn't the real world we have much more lenience to get it approved - simply needing to be coherent and open to feedback (You can see this pitch to the side on a pdf). Alongside a pitch we needed to complete a Statement of intent and a Project proposal further outlining the finer details of the projects such as tools we'll use, aims and what we want to achieve with the project - these you'll see on the right side here and below as well ->

When we had finished this stage and planned out some steps - with this staged dubbed 'context' - we moved onto conducting research. For me I personally focused on how people percieved the game at launch, if they thought there was too much hype around it's original release and what they thought of the other competitors around this time however, before rushing into primary research I felt I could do with understanding the situation more - hence why I focused on Secondary research at first to get a solid understanding of what truly happened around release in detail as well as convert it into visual data that I could understand and explain. For this I looked around on various websites like Forbes for sales info from 2016, additionally I came across and article that critised EA (Titanfall 2's Publisher) for poor decision making placing the game between two much larger franchies on the release window (This article came from TechBuffalo and is mentioned in the video as well!). This article made me interest in the player count as well as the trend over time - this led to me consulting Google Trends and PS4 sales/player counts from PS4 database. I found that for google trends and PS4 database they haad presented the data clearly enough and I hadn't the specific data to make anything with so I took some screenshots of their graphs to show for my research - however, the Forbes sales information was less reliable so I did some cross checking across websites and found the 10 highest selling games of the 2016 fiscal year and made a estimated graph of the sales. You can see this work here to the left! 

Once I felt I had established a better understanding of the task I went about designing a questionnaire trying to pose questions relevant to my earlier questions - What did people think of the three games in three games in the release window? (these games were Titanfall, Battlefield and A Call of Duty) Were they more interested in one? Sadly it's a difficult task to reliably gain accurate data so for this task I went to Reddit, a posting social media site and consulted formus if research could be conducted in certain comuntities - in the end I could only really find three who would allow it but, this ended in earning a whopping 50 responses!
You can find the original post on the r/Titanfall community here
You cn also go through the original questionnaire to see the questions I posed

While I was waiting for the data to come back we were advised to try our hand at animation/moving image practice to create a trailer or aadvertisment for ouer choosen project. For mine I had originally struggle to decide what to do until eventually I decided to try an idea out in After Effects.
I started simple focusing on introducing Titanfall 2 by writing out the title and adding effects to it - a green blue similar to that used in it's branding and binary rain effects in the back ground to emulate the Titans falling aspect of well... Titanfall

From there I found some concept art of the 'Titans' from Titanfall and used a pen to draw their outlines - examples to the sides. I then tried to add them in on a trim lines animation with some particle effects trying to emulate embers rising off a battlefield and eventually led it into teasing for my project by using the standard 'coming soon' with a radial blur.