LO3 Task 1 Completed Script- First Draft

LO2 Task 4 Moodboard for chosen audience

This is the moodboard I created. Upon it are many things that are popular in the gaming community. There are a variety of games and consoles that are well known and popular among gamers. There are also cultural references from the stereotypes of gaming. There is also a popular event and other things themed around gaming.

LO2 Research

We used IGN and BBC websites for gaming news as these are the biggest and most trusted sites. This is a screenshot of the page on minecraft that we researched:

Stories: 

Anticipated game Project Cars has been delayed for the third time in a row, resulting in the game’s launch date to be moved back another month. According to publisher Namco Bandai, the hyper-realistic racing sim is now expected to be released in “mid-May” time, and this was to ensure the final build matches fan expectations.
Developer Ian Bell confirms out of the critically-acclaimed racing games that this will be its most “grand and intricately detailed of them all”.

The widely loved sandbox game Minecraft, based on players having the ability to create whatever they please in an open-world, is currently facing a ban in Turkey for being “too violent” and that its depictions of violence “cannot be ignored” according to the Turkish Family and Social Policies Ministry.  This has sparked controversy for gaming fans in Turkey, as Minecraft is believed to be a game solely based on creativity and imagination, rather than an excuse to act as a violent game.

PlayStation Vue, a new project that will act as a cloud-based TV streaming service for both PlayStation 3 and 4, will begin its commercial rollout nationwide by the end of the month for select invitation-only tests. Vue will be targeting “cord-cutters”; people who ditch their traditional cable providers in favour of digital-only services. Vue will let viewers watch many different live TV and on-demand content from networks such as FOX, NBCUniversal, Viacom and CBS. 

The cost of subscribing to PlayStation Vue has not yet been announced, but will first be available on consoles and eventually iPads and other non-Sony digital devices.

By taking information from the larger sites that are more reliable, it makes our news more reliable and it allows people to see that if our information is wrong, it is due to the sites being incorrect.

LO2 Production Plan

LO2 Audience Profile

James is 26 years old. He works at Game in Meadowhall full time. He enjoys his job as he likes gaming and likes to discuss the pros and cons of the latest games with his customers and colleagues. In his spare time, James plays computer games on his PS4 and his Computer. He likes to play a variety of games Like Call of Duty, Borderlands, FIFA, Tiger Woods, Gran Tourismo and a variety of other games. He also likes to go out in Sheffield with his friends, often going to many of the local clubs and bars. He also likes to play football with his friends at goals on a thursday night as he enjoys the social aspects as well as the fitness one. James also likes to go and watch Sheffield Wednesday play on the weekends he has off work which he will go to with his brother, listening to Sheffield Lives Talking Balls after the games. He enjoys Sheffield Live! as he feels they connect with him in a way that the larger stations do not.

LO2 Meeting Minutes

LO2 Task 1 SLTV Brief