WJEC • Media Studies

Slides include: 1. Convergence 2. Success of Assassin's Creed 3. Consumption 4. Glossary 5. PEGI 6. PEGI System 7. Livingstone and Lunt 8. PS Vita 9. Ubisoft 10. Curran and Seaton 11. Hesmondhalgh

Slides include: 1. Product context 2. Historical context 3. Political/economic context 4. Social/cultural context 5. Technological context 6. Video games background

1 page key terms for gaming

Using demographics and/or psychographics, identify two possible audiences for Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation. (2) Explain how audiences interact with video games. Refer to Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation to support your points. (8)

Explain how changing audience demographics have influenced the gameplay of video games. Refer to Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation to support your points. (8)

Briefly explain two ways in which gaming publishers market their games. (4) - Exemplar A* 4 Mark Answer

QUESTION: With reference to Stuart Hall, analyse the idea that characters in the media are heavily stereotyped in the video game you have studied. (Tomb Raider)

QUESTION: Discuss the representation of gender in the two crime dramas you have studied and how it reflects social context. (bell hooks)

QUESTION: 1. Compare the representations of gender in two crime dramas you have studied and reflect their different historical contexts. Use theorists to support your argument. 2. Compare the representations of place in two crime dramas you have studied and reflect their different cultural contexts.

QUETSION: With reference to Steve Neale’s theory of genre, explore how the television industry uses genre to attract audiences.