AQA GCSE Media Studies
Unit 1 Investigating the MediaExam Topic: Promotion and Marketing of Video Games
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Lesson 3
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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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