Media Blog 1- Mr Bush

  Language / Gameplay analysis Watch The Sims: FreePlay trailer and answer the following questions: https://youtu.be/A7QINFi8ZKM   1) What elements of gameplay are shown? Finding love and creating your own family  2) What audience is the trailer targeting? Although it seems to target a younger audience from 9-12, the content can appeal to a range of ages 3) What audience pleasures are suggested by the trailer? diversion/entertainment, escapism and personal identity  Now watch this walk-through of the beginning of The Sims FreePlay and answer the following questions:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8XHnQk0V_c 1) How is the game constructed? Each level you go up, you unlock certain things you need to live  2) What audience is this game targeting? Although it seems to target a younger audience from 9-12, the content can appeal to a range of ages 3) What audience pleasures does the game provide? diversion/entertainment, escapism and personal identity  4)...

  Factsheet #107 - Fandom Read  Media Factsheet #107 on Fandom .  Use our Media Factsheet archive on the M: drive Media Shared (M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets) or log into your Greenford Google account to access the link. Read the whole of Factsheet and answer the following questions: 1) What is the definition of a fan?  ‘true fans’ have a devotion that goes beyond simply consuming media texts, and is, as Matt Hills argues, part of a person’s identity in much the same way as gender, class and age define who we are. 2) What the different types of fan identified in the factsheet? Anti-fan- negative stereotype of a text/ genre ie. “All people that watch chick flicks are dim” hardcore/true fan -   They take pride in how long they have been a fan and also the quantity and quality of the knowledge they  have amassed whilst being a fan. And they spend copious amounts of money and time to do so.  Newbie - new fans of any given text and do not have th...

  1) OSP: Clay Shirky - End of Audience blog tasks 2) OSP: Influencers and celebrity culture 3) OSP: Taylor Swift CSP - Language and Representations 4) OSP: Taylor Swift CSP - Audience and Industries  5) Baseline Assessment learner response 6) OSP: Postcolonial theory - Gilroy and diasporic identity 7) OSP: The Voice - blog case study