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The Sims Freeplay: Language and Audience

Language / Gameplay analysis 1) What elements of gameplay are shown? Can build house, start a family and have the ability to create the perfect lifestyle -- uses and gratifications theory. It allows for people to escape from the real world and create their own world through diversion, in creating their utopia and ideal world. 2) What audience is the trailer targeting? The audience targets a female audience through the use of the platform which they are on initially as it allows people to experience the game for free and can chose to invest through in app purchases later, however by having no specialist equipment which you would need to invest in this may let the "less serious gamer" to experience the game mode. Within the game there are many more things which suggest that the game mode is designed predominantly for female players, one being that the game was described as a "virtual dollhouse" by the actual developers and as we know this is known to ...

Teen vogue and the voice Week 9 and 10

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Bird box became Netflix's biggest hit to date, with many famous and brilliant actors and to peoples surprise became a massive hit. It appears that movies are in decline with Netflix mainly focusing on TV series they have released an extremely successful film which has viewers hooked. The main reason for the success of the film was that it was so original and creative. The monster in the film is never actually seen by the audience and the does not actually kill them or harm them but causes them to kill themselves and harm themselves, which means they are not able to use their vision to see, this is unlike any other horror film which people have seen. Drake Under Fire For Kissing Teen In 2010 Clip Drake or  Aubrey Drake Graham who has been the number one rapper for the past few years and has recently come under heavy scrutiny for something which happened almost 9 years ago, when he mistook a 17 year old girl to be older and called her upon stage and began to kiss and touch ...

Teen vogue and the voice Week 7 and 8

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Teen Vigue: Barack Obama arrived at a children's hospital dressed as Santa clause, which is an incredibly kind deed considering his status and what other things he could be doing with his wealth and free time. We have seen such other important politicians such as our own David Cameron making hardly any contribution after resigning and is no where to be seen, so it is nice to see that all politicians are not heartless and are actually making a contribution. The voice: Letitia Wright was named the highest paid box office actor of 2018, which was shocking considering how few films she had been in that year. It is good to see a minority be achieving so much as there is so few who achieve this and we are normally likely to see a white male achieve this and she is defying all the odds along side being nominated for a Bafta.

Teen vogue and the voice Week 5 and 6

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Plastics surround us. We eat out of plastic, store food in it, buy food wrapped in it, put it in our eyes in the form of contact lenses, drink out of it — it’s inescapable and, admittedly, incredibly useful. But a growing body of evidence shows that plastics are likely harming human health in a number of ways, and in the United States, there’s little government oversight to stop it. this effectively means that no one is going to do anything about an item which we use regularly on an everyday basis, because of the fact that it is so useful to us in our everyday lives and simply because people don't care enough but the fact is that we are putting these plastics all around us and and inside our bodies without realising the potential dangers of what could happen to us. This item is damaging our wildlife,  fish and ourselves yet we use it as it is cheap. There are four restaurants which are very generously providing free meals on Christmas day as a way of giving back to the com...

Teen vogue and the voice Week 3 and 4

Brexit deal vote delayed: Theresa May set to postpone Tuesday’s ‘meaningful vote’ on draft Withdrawal Agreement. There has been long and hard discussion about the future of the country and Tuesday the 11th was the date set to have the final decision made, however it appears that the prime minister was mistaken and may make a U turn on the so called meeting which was vital in her opinion, is no longer as import as she mentioned as ministers have now advised her that in this vote she will still be heavily defeated and that this vote would be embarrassing. We are now in a situation where there we are back peddling and this is making the country look weaker, although i believe we should remain i don't think that we should change our decision after we made it or else it would be pointless. There are now many conditions we would have to agree to, to now become part of the EU once again and would likely have to change to the euro and extend our tariffs and not be able to trade with ever...

Paul Gilroy - Diasporic identity

Go to our Media Factsheet archive on the Media Shared drive and open Factsheet 170: Gilroy – Ethnicity and Postcolonial Theory . Our Media Factsheet archive is on the Media Shared drive: M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets Read the Factsheet and complete the following questions/tasks: 1) How does Gilroy suggest racial identities are constructed? He suggests that racial identities are HISTORICALLY constructed and are formed by things such as slavery, nationalist philosophies and consumer capitalism and states that racial identities are the product of racial oppression and caused by historical conflicts. He also states  "Race is not the eternal cause of racism but it complex, unstable product. I should probably emphasise at this point that neither race nor racism are exclusive historical property of the minorities who are their primary victims" 2) What does Gilroy suggest regarding the causes and history of racism? Gilroy is saying th at racism isn’t caused by race, racism ...

Newspapers Index

1) Newspapers: The decline in print media 2) Newspapers: The death of print media Factsheet 3) Newspapers: The future of journalism 4) Newspapers: News Values 5) Newspapers: Regulation MM article 6)   Newspapers: Regulation essay 7) Newspapers: Daily Mail case study 8) Newspapers: Mail Online case study 9) Newspapers: The i newspaper and website case study