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Videogames: Lara Croft Go blog tasks

  Language 1) Who is Lara Croft and when did she first appear in a video game ? Lara Croft first appeared in 1996 Eidos Playstation game Tomb Raider 2) What classic films influenced the creation of Lara Croft and the Tomb Raider games? Indiana Jones film influenced the creation of Lara Croft and the other games. 3) How has Lara Croft and Tomb Raider moved beyond just being a video game? She had appeared on magazine covers a lot more than any supermodel. 4)  What devices can you play Lara Croft Go on? You can play Lara Croft on any devices like consoles,mobile devices and pc. 5) What type of game is Lara Croft Go? Lars croft is a tomb raider game. 6) How does Lara Croft Go use narrative (storyline) to make the game enjoyable for the audience? The story line is interesting because it is an adventure storyline so it has many interesting facts. 7) What iconography can be found in Lara Croft Go? How does this help communicate the  genre  of the game? The iconography that can be found in the

TV assessment: Learner Response

  1) Type up your feedback from your teacher in full (you do not need to write marks/grades if you do not wish to). FBI:You need to work on applying audience theories to Q 1.3 -you are not fully responding to question. Also Q2 is an essay and you are not addressing the statement in enough detail 2) Look at the mark scheme document linked above. Write an answer for question 1.1 on mise-en-scene. The two children they are chasing – costume and make-up to make  them look abandoned/homeless. 3) Look at question 1.2. Write  ONE  narrative feature in the extract you could have written for this answer. I could have wrote about Barthes.                                                                                                                                                                               4) Now focus on question 1.3.  Write down  ONE  answer for this question about how the extract targeted a family audience. Personal relations- parents want to keep watching to see if the ch

OSP & Videogames: An introduction

  Watch the YouTube video outlining the history of the videogames industry from the 1970s to the 2010s. Now answer the following questions: 1) What were the first videogames like? The first games were different as the quality from our games had a huge difference and the games were more 2d games cause they just found about making games. 2) How have videogames changed over time? The game quality had  gotten even better every year and the smoothness of every game had gotten better overtime. 3) What do the most successful games have in common? Answer this in as much detail as you can. Think about audience pleasures - what do people like about playing videogames? They all started as 2d games and slowly turned into 3d games like Mario ,car racing,gta,soic and pokemon. People might like that that are things that they can do in the game world instead of the real world. 4) What criticisms have been made towards videogames? Consoles of games were expensive at that time and there were not many ge