A level Media Exam Blog

 Language / Gameplay analysis Watch The Sims: FreePlay trailer and answer the following questions: 1) What elements of gameplay are shown? Character customisation, house living, customisation in general, interaction with other sims, wedding, pets, teens, night life (disco/club) 2) What audience is the trailer targeting? Targeting younger adults and teens due to the representation of work and adult living while also appealing to a younger teen audience due to the sandbox aspect of the sims. 3) What audience pleasures are suggested by the trailer? Diversion- players are able to make a whole new persona in game and live their dream life away from reality and creativity in designing characters and homes, social interaction through gameplay. Personal identity- Create characters on people around them to make it seem as if its their real life. Now watch this walk-through of the beginning of The Sims FreePlay and answer the following questions: 1) How is the game constructed? It is c...

 1) Type up your feedback in full (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential). 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, middle-class representation of family life to the exclusion of other backgrounds (race/ethnicity, sexuality, age, class). Presents the white, western ‘2.4 children’ average as desirable, aspirational lifestyle – some audiences will reject this. - Google presenting its smart speaker as a ‘natural’ part of home life will be strongly rejected by audiences concerned with data, privacy and the power technology companies such as Google have in modern western societies. 3) Now use the mark scheme to identify three potential points that you could have made in your essay for Question 2 (Hesmondhalgh - validit...