archie a level media exam

  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

  Language / Gameplay analysis 1) What elements of gameplay are shown? Building relationships and creating a family, creating different characters with different ages and race, also playing with pets  2) What audience is the trailer targeting? A younger teenage audience who have a smart phone 3) What audience pleasures are suggested by the trailer? diversion- entertaining yourself away from real life personal relationships- building relationships with the sims personal identity- creating different characters that could represent you  Now watch this walk-through of the beginning of The Sims FreePlay and answer the following questions: 1) How is the game constructed? Simple and straightforward with daily quests, a tutorial and rewards. A need for jobs for money and xp 2) What audience is this game targeting? Aimed at both male and female but slightly leaning towards females due to the clothes selection 3) What audience pleasures does the game provide? diversion- with a diff...

  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 do more than like or even love a particular media text, true fans have a devotion going beyond consumption of media texts  2) What the different types of fan identified in the factsheet? Hard core, newbie, anti-fan  3) What makes a ‘fandom’? Fandoms exhibit a passion that binds enthusiasts in the manner of people who share a secret  4) What is Bordieu’s argument regarding the ‘cultural capital’ of fandom? Which confers a symbolic power and status for the fan, especially within the realm of their fandom  5) What examples of fandom are provided on pages 2 and 3 of the factsheet? Rocky horror picture show, vampire diaries ...