Media exam Khaterah

Part 1: Background reading on Gamergate Read  this Guardian article on Gamergate 10 years on . Answer the following questions: 1) What was Gamergate?  It is an online harassment campaign that is against female diversity and their progression into the video game industry. 2) What is the recent controversy surrounding narrative design studio Sweet Baby Inc?  It is believed that Sweet Baby Inc is secretly forcing game developers to change the bodies, ethnicities and sexualities of video game characters to conform to “woke” ideology leading people to believe they control every mainstream game. 3) What does the article conclude regarding diversity in videogames? It writes about how nobody is forcing diversity into videogames as it is naturally placed by players and developers themselves. Part 2: Further Feminist Theory: Media Factsheet Use our Media Factsheet archive on the M: drive Media Shared (M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets) or  here using your Greenford Go...

Audience Read  this App Store description and the customer reviews for The Sims FreePlay  and answer the following questions:   1) What game information is provided on this page? Pick out three elements you think are important in terms of making the game appeal to an audience. The screenshots of gameplay on iPhone and iPad, the game description and the rating/reviews. 2) How does the game information on this page reflect the strong element of participatory culture in The Sims? It writes how audiences are able to choose, create and play with their own freedom 3) Read a few of the user reviews. What do they suggest about the audience pleasures of the game?  I think is it diversion where players are so immersed into the game it becomes their new reality. The constant demand for more updates with newer feature/objects shows how players actually want the game to reflect their real life but in a better and self controlled way. Participatory culture Read  this academic...

Language / Gameplay analysis Watch The Sims: FreePlay trailer and answer the following questions: 1) What elements of gameplay are shown? The game play elements show are character design, home design, taking care of pets, making relationships and families, exploring and living life in your own town. 2) What audience is the trailer targeting? It is targeting a range of audience but generally younger white females as they are seen to stereotypically enjoy dressing up and living a basic life such as creating a family. 3) What audience pleasures are suggested by the trailer? Diversion- players are able to make a whole new persona in game and live their dream life away from reality personal identity- Create characters on people around them to make it seem as if its their real life. Now watch this walk-through of the beginning of The Sims FreePlay and answer the following questions: 1) How is the game constructed? It was constructed to be free to play game that lets players design their own ...

1) Type up your feedback in  full  (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential). Grade: B, 23/34 WWW: clear analysis of the unseen advert in relation to Halls Reception theory. Clear response to the 25-marker Q-task lots of references to both OSP CSP's. EBI: more explicit reference from the CSP pages we annotated as a class e.g microsite or thumbnails for The Voice. 2) Read  the whole mark scheme for this assessment carefully . Identify  three  specific aspects from Figure 1 (the Google Home advert) that you could have mentioned in your answer (e.g. selection of image, framing and focus, colour, text etc.) Dominate-Google represented as unthreatening, safe and a natural part of middle-class family life. Oppositional- Google presenting its smart speaker as a ‘natural’ part of home life will be strongly rejected by audiences concerned with data, privacy and the power technology companies such as Google have in modern west...