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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...

OSP assessment: Learner response

  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...