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  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 ...

  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.                                                                                                 ...

  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 no...

  1) What is the BBC's mission statement? BBCs mission statement was to entertain the public and to serve all the audiences who are watching. 2) How is the BBC funded? BBC is funded by tv licences funds that we pay to watch TV. 3) What must the BBC do to meet its public service broadcasting responsibilities? (Look at the five bullet points above) They have to support people witch different ages and reflect the different cultures around the UK. 4) What is regulation and how is the BBC regulated? Regulation is that so BBC is not doing anything appropriate and is good for everyone watching it.  5) How do Doctor Who and His Dark Materials help the BBC to meet the  BBC's remit to inform, educate and entertain ? -They both entertain the young generation. -The both teach something about the history and science. -They both are appropriate for everyone.

   1)who is the target audience for Doctor Who? Has it changed since 1963? The target audience for doctor who was probably for people for 10 to 14 age because more teenagers would watch TV shows.  2) What audience pleasures are offered by Doctor Who - An Unearthly Child? Apply Blumler and Katz's Uses and Gratifications theory to the episode. Make sure you provide specific examples from the episode to support your ideas. Personal Identity: This episode is about the doctors granddaughter this is because the teachers were after her. Personal Relationships : The Doctor is her grandpa Diversion (Escapism): They teachers keep asking questions about the girl            Surveillance (Information / Facts):   The girl keeps running away from the questions that the teacher ask.      3) What additional Uses and Gratifications would this episode provide to a  modern  2020 audience? -The use of sci-fi  things this wo...

Audience 1) Read this  audience rating guide for His Dark Materials . Based on the screening and this article, who do you think the target audience is for His Dark Materials and why? What about psychographic groups?  You can  revise Pyschographics here . The target audience is for those who are gonna make a video or those who will do word of mouth so more people could watch this. 2) What audience pleasures are offered by His Dark Materials - The City of Magpies? Apply Blumler and Katz's Uses and Gratifications theory to the episode. Make sure you provide specific examples from the episode to support your ideas. Personal Identity : some of this characters have a good and bad intentions around them.  Personal Relationships: The teenagers are all by themselves and they care of each other. Diversion (Escapism): the teenagers are going around dimensions  3) Thinking of the 3 Vs audience pleasures (Visceral, Vicarious and Voyeuristic pleasures), which of these c...

  1) Write an analysis of the episode - using notes from the screening in class.  Make specific, detailed reference to moments in the text using media terminology (e.g. media language - camera shots and movement, editing, diegetic/non-diegetic sound, mise-en-scene etc.) You can currently  watch His Dark Materials on BBC iPlayer here . Camerawork, editing and sound: There was rapid changing scene work and editing like when the witches turned into animals. Mise-en-scene: There was not much of changing costumes but there were so many props in the town like the apples on the floor. Narrative and genre: In each scene there was a different genre and there many interesting lines that the characters said. You can  access our notes from our close-textual analysis in class here  - you'll need your Greenford Google login to open this. 2) How does His Dark Materials fit the conventions of the fantasy TV genre? This fits dark because its all about things that will not come t...