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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: