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The Sims FreePlay CSP - Audience and Industries blog tasks

  The Sims FreePlay CSP - Audience and Industries blog tasks 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. 2) How does the game information on this page reflect the strong element of participatory culture in The Sims? 3) Read a few of the user reviews. What do they suggest about the audience pleasures of the game?  Participatory culture Read  this academic journal article - The Sims:  A Participatory Culture 14 Years On . Answer the following questions: 1) What did The Sims designer Will Wright describe the game as? 2) Why was development company Maxis initially not interested in The Sims? 3) What is ‘modding’? How  does ‘modding’ link to Henry Jenkins’ idea of ‘textual poaching’? 4) Look specifically at p136. Note down...

Paper 2 mock exam: Learner response

  Paper 2 mock exam: Learner response 1) Type up your  feedback  in full  www: the first half of q4 shows potential but overall this needs to be a lesson in the amonut of revsion and preperation required for the summer exams. ebi: question focus is key. you seem to confuse Gentlewoman and Taylor swift. -revsie the CSPs. 2) Did you succeed in meeting or exceeding your  target grade  for A Level Media in this paper? If not, how many additional marks do you need to achieve your target grade in Paper 2? I need to revise the CSPs and leartn how to link theorists to the questions. I am two grades away. These are the grade boundaries we've used, based on real AQA exam grade boundaries (out of 84):   A* = 70; A = 62; B = 51; C = 40; D = 30; E = 20. Now  read through the real AQA mark scheme for Paper 2 .  3) Write a  question-by-question analysis  of your performance. For each question, write how many marks you got from ...

Media Paper 1 mock exam - Learner response

Media Paper 1 mock exam - Learner response Here, we need to closely analyse our performance across each question in  Paper 1  and identify specific ways we will improve for the real exam on  Monday 19 May (PM) . Complete the following  learner response  tasks in a new blogpost on your Media  Exam Blog  called 'Paper 1 mock exam learner response': 1) Type up any  feedback  in full (you do not need to write mark/grade if you do not wish to). www: Tharnika, some attemt at cosidering the marketing methods that Blinded by the light incorporated for its release. ebi: It is clear you need to wokr on your exam approach/technique. A coomon issue was you were not fully responding to the focus of the question. Now  re ad through the genuine AQA mark scheme . This is vital as the paper was an official exam paper and therefore the mark scheme tells us a lot about what AQA are expecting us to produce. 2) Write a  question-by-question analysi...

News paper research task

 WC 11/02 Link:Mail online  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14383795/Hamas-Donald-Trump-hostages.html   Summary of news: Guardian link: Summary of news:

Horizon Forbidden West: Language and Representation blog tasks

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Horizon Forbidden West: Language and Representation blog tasks Create a blogpost called 'Horizon Forbidden West: Language and Representation' and work through the following tasks. Language Introduction Read  this review of Horizon Forbidden West in the Financial Times  (should be non-paywalled but you can  read the text of article here if needed ). Answer the following questions: 1) Why does Guerrilla Games have 'a serious case of bad timing'?  The release of Horizon Forbidden West coincided with Elden Ring, a game that overshadowed it in terms of popularity. 2) What is the narrative for the original game Horizon Zero Dawn?  the narrative for the original game is  a thousand years after machines have wiped out most of humanity whilst survivors have formed tribal communities who view technology  as objects of suspicion. 3) How is the central character Aloy described?  as a resourceful and determined protagonist who takes on the responsibility ...

Women and videogames

Women and videogames: blog tasks Work through the following blog tasks to complete our work on women in videogames and further feminist theory. Part 1: Background reading on Gamergate Read  this Guardian article on Gamergate 10 years on . Answer the following questions: 1) What was Gamergate?  it was a harassment campaign, to spread views against feminism and diversity in the visa game industry. 2) What is the recent controversy surrounding narrative design studio Sweet Baby Inc?  Making game creators change the bodies of the characters in the games. 3) What does the article conclude regarding diversity in videogames? That its become more diverse. 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 Google login . Find Media Factsheet  #169 Further Feminist Theory , read the whole of the Factsheet and answer the following questions: 1) W...

OSP assessment learner response

  Your learner response is as follows: 1) Type up your feedback in  full  (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential). WWW:  Some attempt at applying Hall reception theory to the unseen google home advert. EBI: Your 25- mark Q response is too descriptive of the OSP CSP is rather than validating how they determine vlues and ideoligies of their industries- see the mark scheme for indiactive context. 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.) Dominant or preferred readings: • Positions the Google Home device as at the heart of aspirational family life. • Links Google brand to vision of ideal family life – creative play with parent; coloured pencils, paint bottle and corner of child’s picture all reinforce creativi...