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The Sims FreePlay CSP - Language & Representations blog tasks

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  Language / Gameplay analysis Watch The Sims: FreePlay trailer and answer the following questions: 1) What elements of gameplay are shown? How players can customise their sim, how they can design their homes and get a job- living your dream lifestyle 2) What audience is the trailer targeting? Everyone- they had sims  for both genders and all ages- growing a family, being a teenager 3) What audience pleasures are suggested by the trailer? Vicarious pleasure- living through the lens of someone else (the sim) Now watch this walk-through of the beginning of The Sims FreePlay and answer the following questions: 1) How is the game constructed? Gamers can create their sim with different accessories and clothing. It offers tutorials for  people to use and gives weekly quests where payers get rewards for regular playing e.g. mystery 2) What audience is this game targeting? All audiences- players can customise characters to look like them (skin colour, gender, older, younger) 3) W...
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OSP assessment: Learner response

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  Create a new blog post on your Media 1 Exam blog called ' OSP assessment learner response ' and complete the following tasks: 1) Type up your feedback in  full  (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential). WWW: Strong response to the 24 mark question- you completely address/validate the statement with lots of reference to both CP's and theories. Clear sense of purpose, argument in your writing- keep this up!  A plan really helps. EBI: Your analysis of the google home unseen advert is good but it is nit excellent- feels brief =. See mark scheme in how to achieve top level. Provide other theories in 25 mark question to reference e.g. Shirky 2) Read  the whole mark scheme for this assessment carefully . Identify  three  specific aspects from Figure 1 (the Google Home advert) that you could have mentioned in your answer (e.g. selection of image, framing and focus, colour, text etc.) Reinforces white, western, m...
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Videogames: Henry Jenkins - fandom and participatory culture

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  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 question s: 1) What is the definition of a fan? A person with an extreme and uncritical enthusiasm or zeal  2) What the different types of fan identified in the factsheet? Hardcore/True Fan,  Newbie, Anti-fan 3) What makes a ‘fandom’? fandoms consist of passion that binds enthusiasts in the manner of people who share a secret — this secret  just happens to be shared with millions of others. 4) What is Bordieu’s argument regarding the ‘cultural capital’ of fandom? Bordieu argues a kind  of ‘cultural capital’ 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 ...
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OSP: Final 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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OSP: Influencers and celebrity culture

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  1) Media Magazine reading Media Magazine 72 has a feature linking YouTube influencers to A Level media theories. Go to  our Media Magazine archive , click on MM72 and scroll to page 60 to read the article ‘The theory of everything - using YouTubers to understand media theory’. Answer the following questions: 1) How has YouTube "democratised media creativity"? With ordinary users uploading their own content: they are ‘produsers’ (producer-users) and ‘prosumers’ (producer-consumers). 2) How does YouTube and social media culture act as a form of cultural imperialism or 'Americanisation'?  YouTube influencers encourage the spread of US cultural references, language and attitudes. This form of globalisation implies a dominance of Western cultural attitudes 3) How do influencers reinforce capitalist ideologies?  Most globally popular YouTubers also promote materialism and consumption. Once they become successful, YouTube stars are often sponsored by commercial companies ...
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OSP: Taylor Swift CSP - Audience and Industries

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Background and audience wider reading Read  this Guardian feature on stan accounts and fandom . Answer the following questions: 1) What examples of fandom and celebrities are provided in the article? Lady Gaga’s Little Monsters, Beyoncé’s Bey Hive, Taylor Swift’s Swifties, and Nicki Minaj’s Barbs. 2) Why did Taylor Swift run into trouble with her fanbase?  When the presale for Taylor Swift’s tour turned into a battle royale for fans locked out of Ticketmaster’s system, frazzled Swifties voiced their disappointment. Ticketmaster and Swift quickly apologized, with the singer  calling the process “excruciating” . Ticketmaster ended up testifying in Congress in a hearing about consolidation in the ticketing industry. 3) Do stan accounts reflect Clay Shirky's ideas regarding the 'end of audience'? How?  Yes, stan accounts now have rthe power to act as publishers and report in place of professional joiurnalists. Mass amateurisation- if anyone can be a publisher, anyone ca...
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The Voice CSP: case study

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  Homepage Go to  the Voice homepage  and answer the following: 1) What news website key conventions can you find on the Voice homepage? The subscribe button, the top handle with all the subjects and the headlines on each article 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? News-  this shows the Voice report on issues regarding balck communities Lifestyle-  represents black culture and celebrated black identity Entertainment- covers film, music and television etc.. celbrating black talent and pitting a spotlight on black voices in these industries 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 record stores that shaped Black music in Britain- highlighting black influence in music industry ‘A leader, mentor, and friend’: what Lord Herman Ouseley meant to me- keeing audi...
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