Sheldon Media A level exam blog - Mr Bush

 1) Type up any feedback in full (you do not need to write mark/grade if you do not wish to).  53/84  grade B  www: a very good effort displayed  in this  paper. Q2 + q3 were of particular strength. Your Q7  was clear  and  supported by BBTL (csp) but remember this Q, ask you to reference other texts  not just  CSP's  we've  studied . EBI: nore emphasis on the  hey words  for the unseen qe.g anchorage and consider proxemics'( framing /positioning) more contextual  factors  or Q4 look at the mark scheme/examiner reports for more context  2) Write a question-by-question analysis of your performance. For each question, write how many marks you got from the number available and identify and points that you missed by carefully studying the AQA indicative content in the mark scheme: Q1 4/8   it was an satisfactory analysis  these are a title/caption/tagline: ‘what will take your breath awa...

  1) Videogames: Henry Jenkins - fandom and participatory culture 2) Videogames: The Sims FreePlay - Language & Representation 3) Videogames: The Sims FreePlay - Audience & Industries 4) Learner response: OSP assessment 5) Videogames: Women in videogames & Further feminist theory 6) Videogames: Horizon Forbidden West - Language & Representations 7) Videogames: Horizon Forbidden West - Audience & Industries

 Your index should include the following: 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

 Audience Look at this YouGov blog on the console gaming audience and answer the following questions: 1) What statistics can you find for the number of male / female players for the major consoles? 71% for  male and 29% for  women for PS5 and 68% male   for Xbox and 32% for Women  2) What is the difference between 'hardcore' and 'casual' gamers - and which do you think would play Horizon Forbidden West? the “hardcore” – those who say they take video games seriously, or play competitively – are a minority, and one with the highest representation on the PS5 (19% ) and Xbox Series X|S (20%) . Casual gamers are most common on the Nintendo Switch ( 45% ), and the PC, where half of players identify as casual ( 51%) 3) What are the different reasons YouGov researched for why players play games? Which of these would apply to Horizon Forbidden West? dedicated gaming platform, and has other functions: while some will play graphically demanding titles like Red Dead Red...

 Language Introduction Read this review of Horizon Forbidden West in the Financial Times (should be non-paywalled but you can read the text of article here if needed). Answer the following questions: 1) Why does Guerrilla Games have 'a serious case of bad timing'?   it released its fantastic 2017 open-world role-playing game Horizon Zero Dawn than it was overshadowed by Zelda: Breath of the Wild, which launched a week later and turned out to be an all-time gaming great. Now just as it delivers an excellent sequel, Horizon Forbidden West, another phenomenon arrives on its heels to suck away all the oxygen, Elden Ring 2) What is the narrative for the original game Horizon Zero Dawn?  The games take place a thousand years after rampaging machines have wiped out most of humanity. Survivors have clustered into tribal communities who view relics of technology as objects of either suspicion or religious reverence. The dramas of warring clans are narrated alongside the tale ...

 Part 1: Background reading on Gamergate Read this Guardian article on Gamergate 10 years on. Answer the following questions: 1) What was Gamergate?  one of the first fronts of the modern culture wars, driven by social media, misogyny and the weaponised disaffection of young men. 2) What is the recent controversy surrounding narrative design studio Sweet Baby Inc?  people beleived Sweet Baby Inc is secretly forcing game developers to change the bodies, ethnicities and sexualities of video game characters to conform to “woke” ideology. They think that Sweet Baby has written and controlled almost every popular video game of the past five years. 3) What does the article conclude regarding diversity in videogames? Nobody is forcing diversity into games. Part 2: Further Feminist Theory: Media Factsheet Use our Media Factsheet archive on the M: drive Media Shared (M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets) or here using your Greenford Google login. Find Media Factsheet #169 Further...