For this assignment the subject I have chosen to go with is how video games affect mental health. I believe video games can have both positive and negative effects on our mental health and I would like to create a conceptual poster to convey this idea. While I haven’t decided whether I want to focus on the more beneficial or detrimental ways that gaming affects us mentally, the purpose of the poster would be to raise awareness of the potential benefits or downsides that video games can have on our mental health. The target audience would most likely be teenagers and young adults as this is the demographic most associated with video games and also the demographic most susceptible to mental health conditions such as video game addiction and other more general mental illnesses such as depression.
Example of conceptual visual design within my subject area
This picture is a piece of conceptual visual design created to depict video game addiction. The creator of this image has achieved this by combining the imagery of a video game controller and a hand cuff in order to create a deeper meaning. A controller is considered by most people to be the primary method of interaction when it comes to playing video games, and while wireless controllers are becoming more and more popular, most people when thinking about a controller would imagine it being connected to a console through the use of a wire. The creator of this image has used this knowledge to convey a message about video game addiction by replacing the wire that would typically come out of a controller with a chain that leads to a handcuff attached to the players hand. Handcuffs are usually associated with negative things such as being bound and powerless, which in this case acts as a metaphor for players losing control over their own lives by not being able to pull themselves away from video games due to addiction.
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