Eleanor N - A level Media blog

 Example question: Explain the significance of economic factors to the gaming industry. Use Minecraft to support your answer (15) Ownership affects a product's production, distribution and circulation The process of production, distribution and circulation by organisations, groups and individuals in a global context The significance of patterns of ownership and control, including conglomerate ownership, vertical integration and diversification The effect of individual producers on media industries 2. New technologies mean that producers can target audiences differently in a low economic context from how they target them in a high economic context The relationship of technological change and media production, distribution and circulation The significance of economic factors including commercial and not-for-profit public funding, to media industries and their products How media organisations maintain, including through marketing, varieties of audiences nationally and globally The imp...

 

  Explain the impact of digitally convergent media platforms on video game production, distribution and consumption (15) Brief Macro- detailed Micro (structure) Macro- The programming language used in game development can have an impact in how it is affected by platforms and their users Micro- The nature of the game and development in Java has meant that there are several rival and clones to the game Minecraft. 'Castle miners' is just one example of a game with remarkable similarities and there is much scope for debate about how you go about copyrighting ideas if everyone is using open source software. Indeed, when Microsoft purchased Mojang, there was a surge in clone titles for rivals consoles such as Nintendo (who did not receive official versions for minecraft at that time) including battleminer for the Nintendo 3DS. Notice the slight variations in story narrative and the glaringly obvious similarities. One could argue that Minecraft was simply the right version of a ...

 

  "Explain the impact of digitally convergent media platforms on video game production, distribution and consumption"

  Minecraft content notes   Game Features:   Minecraft is a 3D sandbox game, created and developed by Mojang Studios. It  has no goals or rules for the player, allowing users a large amount of freedom in choosing how to play the game. Gameplay is in the first-person perspective by default , but players can choose to play different modes such as Minecraft: Story mode. The game world is composed of rough 3D objects, mainly cubes and fluids, representing various materials such as stone, wood and water . The key characteristic of Minecraft as a video game is its creative and educational functions, which are more explicit in the gaming experience than in market -led rival games.   Minecraft is described as a virtual world of Lego, that involves simple instructions to play it: explore, mine and build. There are  predominantly  two game modes; creative and survival  although more recent modes have been added such as Spectator, adventure and multiplayer. ...