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Games Cover

  1. I’m going to design and make a games cover based around an open world racer eg. Forza Horizon 4/5. My game will consist of an expansive car list and a realistic, huge explorable world. These will be displayed on the back of the cover. Other things people like to see are great user interface and high refresh rates (120Hz), both of which my game will support and will display this and other capabilities on the front and back of the cover. The target audience for my product will be anyone over the age of 3 and will be developed and produced by Playground Games and Turn 10 Studios.
  2. The main cover image will be of a 2020 Ferrari SF90 GTS. This is because it is an iconic design of a car today and will attract the eye of the player. I am going to design my own using software called car configurator. I will use a similar design layout of many games covers of the current day. This will include a large title and iconic sign for the front cover. The main image will wrap around the spine and also be featured on the back side. I will also have a Playground Games logo on the front, as well as the PEGI 3 age rating.
  3. My game will represent how an almost real experience can be induced in a game, but better than any other currently on the market. I will do this by allowing the use of a steering wheel/pedal/racing seat rig can be used with a Virtual Reality headset, something that is not currently possible on Xbox and PC systems.
  4. My game will be playable by anyone who has an interest in it .

Representation

Laura Mulvey (born 15 August 1941) is a British feminist film theorist. She was educated at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. She is currently professor of film and media studies at Birkbeck, University of London. Mulvey is best known for her essay, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, written in 1973 and published in 1975. It was the subject of much interdisciplinary discussion among film theorists, which continued into the mid-1980s. Critics of the article pointed out that Mulvey’s argument implies the impossibility of the enjoyment of classical Hollywood cinema by women, and that her argument did not seem to take into account spectatorship not organized along normative gender lines. Regarding Mulvey’s view of the identity of the gaze, some authors questioned “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” on the matter of whether the gaze is really always male. Mulvey does not acknowledge a protagonist and a spectator other than a heterosexual male, failing to consider a woman or homosexual as the gaze.

John Peter Berger was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet.  His essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing written as an accompaniment to the BBC series of the same name, is often used as a university text. He lived in France for over fifty years. In 1972, the BBC broadcast his four-part television series Ways of Seeing and published its accompanying text, a book of the same name. The first episode functions as an introduction to the study of images.

Semiotics

Key language:

Semiotics

  1. Sign – Stands in for something else
  2. Code – Symbolic tools used to create meaning
  3. Convention – Accepted ways of using media code
  4. Dominant Signifier – The main representative
  5. Anchorage – Words with an image to provide context

Ferdinand de Saussure:

  1. Signifier – Stands in for something else
  2. Signified – Idea being evoked by signifier

C S Pierce:

  1. Icon – A sign that looks like its object
  2. Index – A sign that has a link to its object
  3. Symbol – A sign that has a more random link to its object

Roland Barthes:

  1. Signification – Process of the construction of meaning from the signs

2. Denotation- First level analysis (what a reader can see on the page)

3. Connotation- Meanings or associations we have with the image

4. Myth- Naturalises events turning history into nature

5. Ideology- A world view about how society should function

6. Radical- Out of the ordinary or something you wouldn’t expect 

7. Reactionary- Follows stereotypes or something you expect 

8. Syntagm – Where signs occur in sequence or parallel and operate together to create meaning

9. Paradigm – A paradigmatic relationship is one where an individual sign may be replaced by another.

Evaluation Of Summer Task

In my summer task, my main aim was to tell a story of my dad, and how his workplace experience is. The significance it shows is how it is unenjoyable for him after working for his own business for so many years. The contents of the text includes how many apprentices he trains up, hoping the will stay to work for him, and what happens after.

I used a bold title and organised columns of smaller text to portray my article as a genuine piece of media. The larger and smaller images are places around the text rather than over or under as I find the text unreadable. The drop cap used for the first letter of the text helps the first word make more of an impact.

My dad is a mechanic, he’s always home late and he can’t do cooking or other stereotypical ‘mum’ things at home because of how overloaded with work he is all the time. This is what people would expect from a dad, making my article reactionary.

My product would be suitable for people who want to learn how they can relate to others. By showing how someone has to live, this may allow other people to see how they are similar to each other and are able to make comparisons.

There was no empty space as almost all of it was taken up with text. This makes the whole document look quite bland as there is just lines and lines of text.

Media Forms

NumberMedia FormCharacteristicsExample
1RadioAudio only, linear, widely available Radio 1
2NewspaperNon-linear, visual, publicJEP
3Advertising / MarketingVisual and audible , shown to the public, accessible for anyoneLeaflets
4FilmPublicly available, simultaneous, visual and audibleTitanic
5TelevisionBroadcast, private, cheapThe Big Bang Theory
6Video GamesVisual and audible, interactive, user feels very involvedCall of Duty, GTA
7Online, social and participatory mediaProduction is public, consumption is privateSnapchat
8MagazinesVisual, lots of photos, accessible for the publicVogue
9Music videoVisual and audible, public, easily accessibleGangnam Style