Animal Crossing rev

 NINTENDO SWITCH 2 IS IMMINENT 🥳🥳🎉🎉

• First one released in 2017 - getting old now - fans wondering if the new switch will usher in many sequels and will fans NEED to update the console which is irritating to spend money on - it will be backwards compatible (will the new tech play the old games) - Animal crossing players may not be worried about a new switch as unlike games with yearly installations or have limited playability - ACNH doesn't run into these problems
• ACNH don't need graphic updates as its not a taxing game - doesn't need the realism that games liek Fifa needs or the processor speed

top 10 bestselling games of 2024

1. EA Sports FC 25
2. Hogwarts Legacy
3. COD BO 6
4. EA Sports FC 24
5. MK8 Deluxe
6. Super Mario Bros Wonder
7. Minecraft
8. Nintendo switch sports
9. Legend of Zelda echoes of wisdom
10. Super Mario party jamboree

Palworld-

rip off of various Nintendo games such as Pokémon, Zelda, and Animal Crossing.

Made lots of money due to being cheaper than Nintendo games (30<50+) as well as copying various features from different games.

Anime Life Sim-

Blatant Animal Crossing ripoff on the PlayStation store

Similar avatars and actual game features such as fishing and house design

BIG NEWS -

Switch 2 release - not many physical changes except connection of controller and color - launching in big wealthy cities - generate excitement while marketing the product for free by inviting people

NINTENDO NES LAUNCH - 

first advert - https://youtu.be/jbijYdtApRg?si=u06jwhw0dI09Lok1 - launched in 1985

came with revolutionary accessories such as guns for duck hunts - It was first released in Japan on July 15, 1983, as the Family Computer (Famicom). It was released in US test markets as the redesigned NES in October 1985, and fully launched in the US the following year. The NES was distributed in Europe, Australia, and parts of Asia throughout the 1980s under various names. - cost about 199 on release which adjusts to over 400 in todays money - similar to switch

Gameboy - 1989 - market for handheld games - low marketing - knew it would be high in demand

PlayStation - 1994 - pre release video - bragging about tech specs and showed 3 guys playing the game

PS2 - 1999 - First labelled as dark and mysterious and aimed at 18-24 year old males

DS - 2004 - released on black Friday and aimed at all genders and age groups

Xbox 360 - 2005 - had a 0 hour release party in a airport hanger in a California desert

PS3 - 2006 - lots of manufacturing problems at launch had to delay in UK - Had to drop the price by 50%

Xbox 1 - 2013 - got lots of backlash - advertised for its intergration with TV and not gamin g

lupin revision

• Non diegetic opening titles sound like prison door after protagonist is shown as a cleaner at the Louvre
• Omar Sy - famous French actor is the main character and after the opening scene he was described as 'you look like shit' in the first line post opening scene - this also reveals either this or his janitor name is false. shot and reverse shots used during this convo
• many binary opposites during scene - past vs future as Assane has a job now however the woman doesn't believe it will last due to past examples - male female - black white - soft vs blunt
• rejects his money and tells him to buy a present for son - French kiss lingers for a bit too long
• slips her the money and origami rose which she notices after she leaves
• different - more gritty music as Assane walks through French project housing - hoodie clad Assane knocks on a door using his name of Perrena as a large man opens the door
• Assane tells two criminals he cant pay them back while a third plays a car game - Assane is held over a balcony until he announces plans to make lots of money
• Assane reveals his weak act by restraining large man that tries to throw him over and makes statements representative of Paris about how higher class don't see him
• montage as Assane describeswhole plan however 

Paul Gilroy - post colonialism - people scattered around world trying to rebuilt culture and identity across the world - Senegalese immigrant in France tries to steal Marie Antoinette necklace -  a hated person during the French revolution and described as ignorant to lower class - just like the Louvre in Paris

Flashback - Assane represents France and Senegal - Rich and Poor - Babakar offers his bosses wife a lift home but she doesnt know who he is so locks her door due to his race

MEDIA PAPER 1 NEWS

 TASK CHANGE THE HEADLINES - 

• house prices plummet across the country
• football fans storm onto the pitch
• train seats left unrecognizable after a group of youths tore them up
• shortage of funds crippling school

what makes the sun a red top tabloid and the guardian a broadsheet

the Sun - 

• low price
• high image to copy ratio
• large advert - typical of a working class readership
• red top
• informal mode of address
• soft news
• sport discussion

The Guardian -

• high copy to image
• lower case headline - informative
• hard news
• aimed at educated audience
• no ads
• serif - formality and tradition
• art discussion

news social media - facebook

the sun

• reaching out to fans - asking who they want to run this morning
• older target audience

twitter

• producer led platform - less interaction
• entertaining videos, less stories

The Guardian no longer posts on twitter - Elon Musk takeover - not fair news sharing

THE FOURTH ESTATE - pillars of society - church - political/monarchy - civillians - press

EXAM SPEC

 A Level Media Studies H409 Specification (ocr.org.uk)

op - messages in media

paper 2 blans - evolving media

media paper 1 warmup

 Q 1 - 10 MARKS - 15-17 MINS - ANALYSE A SOURCE AND COMPARE - social media feed involving newspapers - MEDIA LANG - 

lang or rep question help - outline the theory - mention use towards the context - analyze the sources -  

Q 2 - 10 MARKS - 20-25 MINS - ML/REPRESENTATION - IDENTIFY WHICH ONE IT IS - 

REPRESENTATION - CAGED - LANG - CLIFT - ANALYSE WITH CLIFT

3 paras and a conclusion

Q 3 - 10 MARKS - 15 MINS - Historical context - guardian online as well as Daily Mail and their print comparison - 

Explain how historical contexts influence the ways newspapers target reach and address audiences. address the guardian and daily mail to support your answer [10 marks] - use case studies 

2 paras with no conclusion

Q 4 - 10 MARKS - 15 MINS -  EVALUATE A THEORIST THAT APPLIES TO NEWS - 2 OPTIONS - INDUSTRY THEORIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

- DISCUSS LIMITATIONS OF THE THEORY.

Stuart Hall's reception theory

 Some people read texts differently. When texts are made we encode our meanings (preferred meaning) for the audience to decode. 

Dominant-hegemonic - position is the preferred reading being accepted by the reader

Negotiated position - Accepting some elements of the texts encoding but altering to fit personal views

Oppositional reading - When the reader rejects all overt messages in the text and underlying messages

Lupin BTS and contexts

 

Released near the end of lockdown however still reaped the benefits of the increased viewership - filmed before lockdown so not delayed or disrupted - Netflix gained 5mil subs in first 3 months of 2021

Basic advert subscription - £4.99

Basic no ads - £10.99

premium - £17.99

Lupin was watched in 76million households in the first month - most watched non English series on Netflix at the time and was top 3 in America and top 1 in France and many other European countries as well as other French speaking countries.

As of June 2023 recorded 99.5 mil COMPLETED viewings of Lupin season 1.

Arsene Lupin - 1905 story about the gentleman thief - Sherlock Holmes with Robin Hood -  Written by Maurice Leblanc - would only steal from the rich and would use his intellect as opposed to brawn or weapons.

In 2021 - Netflix invested 6bn dollars into original content - amazon and apple tv only invested 2-3 bn

- important as it keeps interest into THEIR platform - keeping interest more important than gaining once a big company - 

David Hesmondhalgh - cultural industries

Media producers follow capitalist patterns - increasing concentration and integration (less companies but bigger) - called conglomerates - vertical integration to reduce risk - also used in real businesses - risk is high in cultural industries - industries use repetition to reduce the risk - same stars, genre, sequels, narratives,  etc - explains why big company franchises do better commercially than indie films - 

examples in Lupin - the heist concept - flashbacks - typical sidekick (smaller, intellegent, glasses - Watson-esque) - nonchalant whistling when 'misbehaving' (mocking/admitting guilt) - fancy suit under a disguise

I believe Hesmondhalgh theory applies most to Stranger Things as its entirely built up from references and nods to other media forms as opposed to Lupin that does have standalone elements