crit 4 Be able to respond to media products

Genre

GTA: Is a action/3rd person free roaming shooting game and driving catagory.

Games are devolping and changing to multiple genres to better fit and to better get more costomers to play and buy the game so they come up with new genre mixes such as an RPG/Sports game, Action/adventure, action/first person and many other combined genres.

Classification has always been a bother since man became more creative in music, gaming, artistic style of clothing and even how one would speak. Even though a lot of us do classify each other as different we also classify a person on thier nature such as how they project their personality and their attitude towards others and to yourself.

When people buy a game they normally would just buy role playing games or action games and others such as myself don't bother with Sports games such as the Fifa series or an NFL game. I do like racing games but they are the only sports game i do like same for other people aswell as they may hate sports games but only buy the FIFA series because they may like football but that is it.

as i stated in the second paragraph games are now becoming more genre based as i play an RPG game and it may contain a new type of sports game of their own such as final fantasy 10 has blitzball which you can play any time along through the game. If a person heard you play a certain game or if you play a second installmant with out playing the first installment such as if you played dragon age 2 and not dragon age 1 than people will think badly of you or say that you are a complete idiot for not starting with the first installment.

Task 2-genre

Objective- to devolop your understanding of indentification of generic types and to apply this to examples.

What to do

Pick between 3-5 games- Prince of Persia series , Final Fantasy series, Call of Duty series, Dark Souls and Tomb Raider series.

for each think through the narative structure, how you control your avatar and how the game handles- In the Prince of Persia series it is a third person view game with a linear system with a lot of acrobatic traveling for the main character and to me the game handles as awesome as all the other prince of persia instalments but for the animation it was on low fps with a slower clock speed which was improved as each installment came out.

Final fantasy first started as a 2D game with a over head camera as all 2D games but when final fantasy 7 came out it was introduced as a third peron view 3D game along with the later installments. Final fantasy 7 and above usually have a battle screen, over world map and field map which you can switch to at random times. How the avatars are controled are different in all three screens as you just simple run around overworld map until either battle screen or field map, in battle screen you click on certain words such as attack, magic, summon and item which will either attack them or go into another analogue box for you to choose which magic, summon or item to use. In the field map which is a town or place that the avatar is visiting you again just run around pick things up and even talk to people. Final Fantasy handles the same from final fantasy 1 to 6 which is the 2D version and final fantasy 7 to 13-2 handles the same way aswell.

Call of duty is a first person viewing shooting game which is mostly used for online gameplay but also still has a storyline aswell. How the avatar is controled is by moving the avatar from one destination from one location to the other and also shooting one person from the next as you go along with an array of weaponry. How this game handles is with

Dark souls is a third person view Role Playing/Action sandbox game where the character/avatar has to play the role that all undead must play. The controls of the avatar of dark souls is open world where you can both travel and fight on the same screen.

Tomb Raider is a third person action adventure game where the character plays her role by discovering new tombs and uncovering new mythological civilisation such as thors hammer to king arthurs excalibur. The avatar or lara croft is handled just like most other action adventure game as lara croft can jump, run-sprint and everything else most action/adventure games do. How Tomb raider handles is exactly like its predecessors

Then work out how it fits into different genre "boxes" by thinking about the key reference points of time, location, iconography and how you actually play the game. use your notes on classification and genre to help you do this-

narative   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLaCmCxb4tA
Dark Souls

• The idea i got from the Intro is how the game began and came to the conclusion from where you start. This Intro to me seems more like an inigma as it only talks about the begining on how the gods began and formed the world in thier image and the point on what caused everything to fall apart.
• The function that the begining narative has on the entire game is what are these lord souls, who has these lord souls and what the world will be like before you come into the gameplay and what it is you start off as.
• The main narratives of this game is quite complex as the only characters in this intro are characters you never see except for when you defeat them .At the end of a cutscene you see a woman hovering over a dead corpse who people speculate (the corpse) as the main character you control. After the speculating cutscene you see the main character being in a jail sell for a strange reason with chained up zombies and a key is trown into your cell by an unknown knight and once you meet up with this strange knight he tells of the story that all undead must take to save the world and bring fire back to the world (which this game is specualting to).
• The main agents for this cutscene are the three first named gods that came from the flame; nito the first of the dead, the witch of izalith and Gywn the lord of sunlight as the narrator says there name in this cutscene and also insinuating that they have some importance to the story.
• From watching all of the cutscene again and again and watching other programs that try to be mysterious it has made me think that dark souls intro is original and not a formula as no other program such as doctor even dark souls predicessor Demon Souls can't even compete at being mysterious or an enigma as Dark Souls.
• Looking at the structure in more detail it details how the three gods changed and formed the world to how they wish but soon lose everything they have made to the darkness even at there attempt to re kindle the flame but fail and when some humans die they come back as a undead zombie but with their humanity intact. The reason why i think the introduction cutscene is structured this way is because it wants you to think and figure out the plot of the story as the cutscene plays on and what type of era you will be set in and the type of enemies you will and won't come across.
• The narrative is being presented in an episodically way as it first starts off saying how the dragons ruled the earth in darkness, then it goes to talk about the flame that sprouted and the gods who were born from it, then it goes to how the gods defeated the dragons and became the rulers of the earth and how the world is back to being in darkness and the undead that come in it's wake.
• There is only one narrator in this story and the narrator is also very important to the story so that is why only one is displayed throughout this opening cutscene.

Semiotics

Rose:
Conatation- When I see a rose I think of beauty as you smell the brilliant scent that the rose gives off and that of a brilliant combined colour of red and green that seems to makes girls tremple with happy emotion.
denotation- a rose is a red soft flower with a green thorny stem that can easily prick you if you are not careful.
signify- A Blood red flower with a perfume like scent but with thorns that can easily prick you
signified- A rose means love and romance as it is normally added in with relationships and romantic partnerships

Rainbow:
Conatation- What the rainbow makes me think is that with 2 opposite and different weathers merging into one you can get something as beautiful as a rainbow as it shines in the brilliant sun and dense rain.
denotation- A rainbow is an amount of colours that shine in a low oppacity when it rains and the sun are out simultaneously. The colours in a rainbow is red, yellow, pink, green, orange, purple and blue.
signify- A combination of coloured lines can represent a rainbow. the multiple coloured look also is a sign for the gay pride march
signified- A rainbow can represent good fortune and beauty with the cobination of the rain and the rays of sunshine

Peace sign:
Conatation- What the peace sign makes me think is that it is a backwards swear sign so since it is a backwards swear sign it makes me think it has something to do with peace or happyness.
denotation- The peace sign is someone who gets there two fingers closest to there thumb and using the palm side of your fingers to show that you come in peace.
signify- A hand sign symbolising peace and victory as winston churchill started the meaning of and the hippies changed it to peace in the 1970s
signified- What the peace sign signifies is that of surrender and that of a peaceful transaction between two individuals as they talk for a peace treaty.

Alan wake poster:
Conatation- What the alan wake poster makes me think is that a man must brave the darkness and seek the light as he battles the dark forces that lur within.
denotation- This poster is of a man at night time in a forest with a brilliant shine overlapping him and making the man in the forest appear as nothing but a shadow. in the name of Alan Wake it shows as if it is a lightsource and in the A part of wake you see the same man as a shadowy figure holding a torchlight whilst it is switched on.
signify-A man walking away from the light and into the dangerous dark forest with his torch in hand as he finds the mysteries within.
signified- What this signifies is that Alan Wake has to brave the darkness and understand what has happened and what is going on as he uncovers truths and secrets buried deep in the darkest place.

Lego indiana jones poster:
Conatation- To me this looks like a childrens version of a man going around the lego world universe whilst he uncoverse the truth and secrets of the world as he looks like a type of adventurer.
denotation- This poster shows of a 3D lego character holding a whip in a type of stance and as a background is a world map with the description below stating all three films all in one game.
signify- A lego version of indiana jones showing his whipping skills with a world map background
signified- What this signifies is that Indiana Jones has been turned into a lego version for 3 years and above to play and enjoy the lego filled world.

Bioshock poster:
Conatation- When I first look at the cover of Bioshock 1 I get the feeling and idea that there is a type of longing or of some sort of bond as you see 2 hands trying to either claim each other or something else. The clock gives me the idea that time is of the essanse and not much time is left till you-save the world- so to speak.
denotation- this poster shows of 2 hands one looking younger and another older trying to grasp something and the background is that of a semented wal that looks stained and worn out by years of dampness with a clock situated in the middle.
signify-  two transparent hands trying to reach for each other as one is a small childs hand and another is an adults hand in a dank and dreary place.
signified- What this signifies is that the main character has to save that girl from her fate as she is to play a dangerous role of collecting peoples blood whilst there is danger nearby.