Design Research Dissertation #6 Document for dissertation

 Design Research Dissertation

Date : June/8/2023

Name : Mabuchi Arata

Lecture : Video and Sound Production

Lecturer's name : DR Noorhayati Saad

ID : 0351579  

1, Introduction

After completing my draft dissertation works, I now have to move to the process about designing the publication of the dissertation. MIB said that the concept of the publication must be relating to the research topic, therefore my dissertation publication must be design based on video games. The point I need to overcome in this section for proper submission is that I have to design the publication in enough quality to submit in the class, I guess other student's work has the proper quality that can be shown in the public, therefore I firstly need to research about dissertation publication, then I have to start design my dissertation document. 

2, Publication Research

First of all, I need to start from researching publication of the dissertation which talking about video game related subject, however , I can't use Google scholar because the document I found from there was all desined too much simple and plane. I decided to use Pinterest first to find out interesting publication ideas.

To explain more about this, I need to collect all interesting document design about video game document such as advertisement posters, video game magazines and all other articles I found from pinterest, then I start to sketch draft work after that I start to design by using Adobe Indesign and Illustrator (For technical issues, I can't use Photoshop now.) 

I collected several image references that might be useful to plan my research dissertation design, however after I finish to collect interesting visual ideas, I realised one point about "copyright", this is because some video game documents includes images of video game characters, it might be ok to use some of the image according to the educational usage or fair use, but recently the force of copyright protaction is becoming harder and harder, therefore in the draft document, I use free image website called "Illust ya(いらすとや in Japanese)" to make a draft document.

To go back to the main point of this section, the final docuent for dissertation is going to resemble video game magazines that I found from pinterest. To do this, I mainly used the images that looks like resemblings video games as decoration so the pages look like a video game magazine.

3, Publication Design

It'd be too long if I'm going to type about the work I've done from the first cover page to the last back page, so Im going to mention the pages that I used more effort to it.

First of all, the cover page and back page is designed by Adobe illustrator, I aimed the design of cover for document for my dissertation looks simple and easy to understand that this document is about video games, so I decided to make a simple linear artwork about video game controler and handheld game console like Super NES package in Japan (the SNES was called "Super Famicon (Short term of Family Computer)" in Japan by the way).

In some of the pages, I used a blender to make a 3D model to decorate my dissertation document, the work itself was perfectly simple because it was all general process I've done so far, the task itself was completed as normal, but I regret a bit about the quality of the work itself. When I check the work carefully, some of the texture gets distorted, I guess this is because I had less knowledge about the 3D model which maintain original side even it gets new sides, perhaps these mistakes are going to be the point that I should overcome.

I have mentioned that I tried to resemble video game magazine design format, to complete this gosl, I found some interesting idea, many video game magazines uses big images to explain the video games that they are talking about, I copied this style so the pages are looked like Magazine pages that I talked about and it even look more interesting to read.

The text design itself also aimed to look like a video game magazines, firstly, I used free online downloadable fonts so the headline in the document is more like a magazines, but due to the copyright issue, I was required to change some of the font I used, in the ed, I used Google font and Adobe-provided font, but still the headlines looks like a magazine's headlines.

I also tried to use AI art for illustration to decorate the document, to do this, I used Microsoft Bing's Dall-E, even though the quality of AI illustration may seem suitable to use a lot, the details are bit strange to see, therefore I tried not to use too much AI illustration in my document, but they are still look great to use in my document.

In the end, here is my final dissertation document.

4, Conclusion

All the process to create my document about my research dissertation has been endedin a perfect way so I am so satisfied the quality I've done in my work. I could't see any mistakes I've made and the document itself is achived my goal to be looked like video game magazines. The problem I foundis out of theis module which the texture of 3D model I used in the document looks like distorted because of my lack of modelling knowledge yet, maybe I might train my modelling skill more.