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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...

OSP index

  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

Henry Jenkins Fandom and Participatory culture

  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...