Lesson 3

AQA GCSE Media Studies

Unit 1 Investigating the MediaExam Topic: Promotion and Marketing of Video Games

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Starter

Can you name these video-game characters?

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Starter

Answers

• Mr X – Resident Evil• Prince of Persia – Prince of Persia• Bowser – Mario Kart• Sonic – Sonic the Hedgehog• Lara Croft – Tomb Raider• Mario – Super Mario, etc.• Wreck-It Ralph – Wreck-It Ralph • Fix-It Felix – Wreck-It Ralph • Nilin – Remember Me• Ellie – The Last of Us

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Homework

Last lesson you were asked to find a game and investigate whether you

could apply a narrative structure to it.

Some volunteers please to read out your homework?

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Creating a Video-Game Character

This is the website address:http://goanimate.com/videomaker/cc

Screenshot your character and copy and paste it into the Character Sheet.

Please complete the Character Sheet.

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Creating a Video-Game Character

Here’s mine!!

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Creating a Video-Game Character

Which Propp character type is your character?

Can you find a character to pair with?

I.e. Hero pairs with Villain, Hero pairs with Princess, Hero pairs with False Hero

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Video-Game Consoles

Video-Game Consoles: A Definition• At its core, a video-game console is a highly specialised

computer. In fact, most systems are based on the same central processing units (CPUs) used in many desktop computers.

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/video-game1.htm

What does it mean when a games console says it is 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit or 64-bit?

Watch this video and find out!http://youtu.be/ptzGI9VaZmQ

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Today’s Games in the Style of 8-bit Games

Have a look at this website:http://www.geekosystem.com/8-bit-game-demakes/

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Create an 8-bit Video Game

Have a go at the game I created!

http://www.sploder.com/?s=d003okey

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The Sploder Website

You will need to sign up with your email address to create a game.

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Click on ‘Make a Game’

Choose ‘Classic Shooter’ 13

Create an 8-bit Video Game

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Here you can ‘Save’, ‘Test’ and ‘Publish’ your game.

Click on a menu to add items.

Drag them onto the gameplay

screen.

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Make sure you test your game before you publish it!

Share your game with others in the class by emailing them the link.

Don’t forget to add a description!

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Create an 8-bit Video Game

Play each other’s games!

Give it a rating between 1 and 10 (10 being excellent).

Write the name of the game and the rating in the back of your exercise book.

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Plenary

Whose game has received the highest rating?

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Homework

Find an advert for a video game – either in a magazine, a newspaper, social networking or on the Internet.

It must be a still image, i.e. print.

Bring it in or write down the URL in the back of your exercise book.

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