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The Sims FreePlay CSP - Language & Representations blog tasks

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  The Sims FreePlay CSP - Language & Representations blog tasks Create a new blogpost called 'The Sims FreePlay CSP - Language & Representations' and complete the following tasks. Language / Gameplay analysis Watch The Sims: FreePlay trailer and answer the following questions: 1) What elements of gameplay are shown? Elements include customisation of your character, "dream" homes, pets, romance, families, and activities 2) What audience is the trailer targeting? 3) What audience pleasures are suggested by the trailer? Now watch this walk-through of the beginning of The Sims FreePlay and answer the following questions: 1) How is the game constructed? 2) What audience is this game targeting? 3) What audience pleasures does the game provide? 4) How does the game encourage in-app purchases? Representations Re-watch some of the expansion pack trailers and answer the following questions: 1) How do the expansion pack (DLC) trailers reinforce or challenge dominant ideo...
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OSP index

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  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
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Henry Jenkins Fandom and Participatory culture

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  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? A fan (fanatic) is a person with extreme and uncritical enthusiasm. 2) What the different types of fan identified in the factsheet? Potterhead, Trekkie, Twilighter, Twihard, Gearhead , Whovian 3) What makes a ‘fandom’? True fans have devotions that go beyond their media texts, and affects their identity in the same way class gender ethnicity and age do.  A fandom has its roots in a group people with an exceptional enthusiasm in any to...
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The Voice CSP: case study blog tasks

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  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? The homepage includes a top menu, a search icon, adverts and small thumbnail images for stories. 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? Site mixes hard news with lifestyle+ entertainment. Appeals to many readers. Most section focus on interesting stories to individuals, showing the voice prioritising positive soft news. 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.  The article about spiderman attracts possibly younger readers? And also a very wide "mainstreamer" audience who is interested in general celebrity/hollywood/pop culture. The Eubank article celebrates black success which aga...
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Paul Gilroy - blog tasks

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  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? Historically constructed, formed by colonialism, slavery, nationalist philosophy and consumer capitalism.  2) What does Gilroy suggest regarding the causes and history of racism? Race is not the cause, but is the product of racism. Racism is not a natural phenomenom. Natural race used as a way to legitimise oppression and slavery. 3) What is ethnic absolutism and why is Gilroy opposed to it? Line of thinking where we see humans as different ethnic groups, with a basis of human differentiation. He is against this as it is a...
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Y13 Baseline assessment: Learner response

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  Y13 Baseline assessment: Learner response Well done on completing your Y13 Media baseline assessment - it's an important first step towards success in the exams next June. This also gave us the opportunity to revise two key topics that are likely to come up in those exams - Magazines and Radio. It's the nature of the two-year linear course that we will be assessed on topics that we may have originally studied over a year ago. As a result, it's vital that we build in revision activities and assessments across all nine types of media as we progress through Year 13.  The first part of your baseline assessment learner response is to look carefully at your mark, grade and comments from your teacher. Next,  read the mark scheme for this assessment carefully  and note in particular the anticipated content for each question.  Baseline assessment learner response Create a new blog post called 'Y13 baseline assessment learner response' and complete the following tasks: ...
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