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Videogames: The Sims FreePlay - Language & Representations Language / Gameplay analysis Watch The Sims: FreePlay trailer and answer the following questions: 1) What elements of game play are shown?  Ability to form relationships and "find true love", grow a family, and explore the local town that you've constructed. Active verbs - give the audience an active involvement in the stories created in the game. 2) What audience is the trailer targeting? Personal relationships - becoming invested in the well being of the characters and forming relationships with the characters that you've created. Personal identity - the Sims will reflect the lives or the ideals of the gamer, this means that the gamer will see themselves in the characters that they have created. Escapism/diversion - moving out of reality and living the life that they desire through a simulated/constructed reality. Hyper-reality (Baudrillard) - players may become more invested in the simulated lives that

  The Voice CSP: case study blog tasks Language and contexts Homepage Go to  the Voice homepage  and answer the following: 1) What news website key conventions can you find on the Voice homepage? Brand home page link menu bar - classic website convention opinion section increasing for newspapers in digital age -  shirky faith- tells us something about the voices audience - christian beliefs 2) What are some of the items in the top menu bar and what does this tell you about the content, values and ideologies of the Voice? The items on the top menu bar include: Home, Sport Opinion Entertainment Lifestyle Faith Careers Education Motoring Business 3) Look at the news stories on the Voice homepage. Pick  two  stories and explain why they might appeal to the Voice's target audience.  Traditional African clothes banned in Kenyan parliament  According to the Speaker, a proper dress code for men "means a coat, a collar, a tie, long-sleeved shirt, long trousers, socks, shoes, or service

  Henry Jenkins - fandom blog tasks The following tasks will give you an excellent introduction to fandom and also allow you to start exploring degree-level insight into audience studies. Work through the following: 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? ‘Fans’ of a media text in the sense that we like them and consume them regularly, but is not the same as being a Fan.  Fans have a devotion that goes beyond simply consuming the media text. 2) What the different types of fan identified in the factsheet? There are hardcore fans, newbies and anti-fan. Hard core fans spend a lot of time and often money becoming hard core fans and take pride in how long they've been a fan.  Newbies are new fans and do n

  Paul Gilroy - blog tasks Go to our Media Factsheet archive on the Media Shared drive and open  Factsheet 170: Gilroy – Ethnicity and Postcolonial Theory . Our Media Factsheet archive is on the Media Shared drive: M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets or you can  access it online here  using your Greenford Google login. Read the Factsheet and complete the following questions/tasks: 1) How does Gilroy suggest racial identities are constructed? He has consistently argued that racial  identities are historically constructed – formed by colonialization  slavery, nationalist philosophies and consumer capitalism. 2) What does Gilroy suggest regarding the causes and history of racism? Instead, Gilroy states that racial difference  and racial identities are the product of racial oppression. Racial  identities are caused by historical conflicts that have brought different  groups into opposition. That is not to say that there were no human  differences before historical conflict between differ