For our next of workshops we were tasked to design and create a digital magazine that would be suitable for an ipad app. Our group originally decided to design an app based on Sci-fi but after some initial research we found that there were already several of these available on the app store. We therefore decided to go for a more niche topic in the Sci-fi genre and decided to design a digital magazine on the Star Wars franchise.

I was tasked to create the article page for the upcoming Star Wars Battlefront game

The first article is about introducing some of the history of the previous games and some information about what fans can expect from the new game set to be released next year.
As this is a digital magazine I wanted to make use of some of the more interactive features that the digital platform has to offer. For this article I embedded the E3 announcement trailer for the game along side the article. This makes good use of the digital platform as it enables the user to access extra content that would not be possible in a print magazine.
I added the play button to the thumbnail of the video to make it clear to the user that it is a video rather than just a picture, the icon is set to disappear once the video begins playing.

The second article is about the development of the game, because of this I included several pictures of the development of the game that can be swiped through or play automatically as a slideshow. This too makes good use of the unique features that are available to the digital magazine platform.