As you can see, this is mostly played by males (90%) at the ages from 10-40.

This is the game I have chosen to see the target audience perspective of the game.

Camera shots

This post will be about the different camera shots we took in class:

This shot is an over shoulder shot of the the teacher and new pupil having a conversation. This lets viewers know that a new student is being welcomed into the classroom by the teacher.





This shot is a over the shoulder one of the teacher and pupil. The teacher is instructing the pupil were his seat is.

This shot is a medium shot of the new student working. This helps to infer that the student is working in his book.

This shot is an over the shoulder shot of pupils bullying the new student. This would make people think perhaps he is being bullied.

This one is a medium close up of the new student and a medium shot of the bullies. This shot shows he is being physically bullied by the students.

This is a medium close up of another teacher who has observed the bullying. The teacher shows up at the door and doesn't looked pleased by the disgusting behaviour.

This is a long shot of all the characters. Teacher is telling students off.

This is a close up of the names of the bullies going onto the consequence board. The students are now in serious trouble.

4 Key Media Concepts about the game: F1 2012

 Language: Formula 1 is a sport where 22 drivers and 12 teams compete to win a single Grand Prix a race. They also pursue their challengers to the top or try to defend or acquire the Formula 1 Championship. The game speaks to its F1 fans by persuading them into buying the game and sport they love and live their dream. Obviously its just a simulator where players can pick any of the existing drivers (only from that season) ton race with. The Formula 1 show is basically the advertisement of the F1 2012 game.

Institution: Codemasters Birmingham and Feral interactive are the developers of this realistic game. The platform are Playstation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows. The game includes all of the tracks from Formula 1 2012 season. It also has features from inside the car such as: DRS, Kers, handbrake and many more. There is a career mode for those who like to live their dream by driving and competing in Formula 1 - the game. I think the main objective is obtain the fans of Formula 1 (in reality) into liking the F1 2012 game.

Representation: The image at the top of the page is the front cover of the Formula 1 2012 game. The only difference is that it doesn't show the console it would be played on. The cars on the front are the F1 Mclaren  racing car and the F1 William racing team. I assume that the blue colour in the background of the front cover is there to show how alive and interesting the game will be once you purchase it. On the right of the cover, it shows a stadium (can't identify which one). Like I mentioned in the second concept - institution- Codemasters and Feral interactive developed the game. The target audience is for mostly males than females. In my opinion 85% of males play the F1 2012 game and 15% of females play the game. However, there are probably more women who watch Formula 1, (the races in reality) than the amount who play the game. The game is missing many key features such as: the podium (for the top 3 positions at the end of the race), when a F1 car crashes or grazes another car/object, there should be more damage.

                                                                    This crash is a major one                      
                                                                     so this is realistic at least.
                                                                 
                                                                     


Audience: The ages which I think would involve themselves with this game are 8-65 year old. More males than females would play this (I have written a specific percentage above). Fans of F1 would be most likely to play the game and people who like to play racing games would buy and play the F1 2012 game. The graphics could make people believe that the game a F1 Gran Prix is on TV.

My Fruit bowl

GT5: a game which has come out the past 2 years

Gran Turismo 5
The real driving simulator

Gran Turismo 5 is an utterly realistic ‘Playstation’ game. Down to the marks on the track to the sponsors all over the sport racing tracks and cars. The release date of this extraordinary game would have to be in November 24/25 2010. The genre of the game is in the slogan ‘Racing Simulator’, the platform is only for Playstation 3 consoles and it clearly states that on the top right of the case below the symbol of Playstation Network. The price of the game (when it was released) was around £45 - £50 in all shops in the U.K. However, Gran Turismo would also come in a bundle with a Playstation 3 -how I obtained my Gran Turismo-. I’ve found out, when I researched about the reviews, that critic reviews on the game were like this: positive 66, mixed 16 and negative were 0. That is terribly astonishing. The user reviews were like the following: Positive was 250, mixed was 41 and negative was 77. That must prove its worth buying. Over a whopping 70 million copies of Gran Turismo 5 were sold.

The company that developed the game is called polyphony Digital, the publisher were Sony Computer Entertainment and the designer is by the company called Kazunori Yamauchi. These company’s logos are on the front cover of the case.

These images are from a magazine which has included or are about the game Gran Turismo.

This is one of the trailers in the game that I have chosen to add onto the blog.

GT5 worked really hard to advertise their game by working with Playstation -only- and wanted to add the game as a bundle. This would mean Gran Turismo 5 would be identified with the PS3. They also had posters, TV advertisements, magazines and Facebook/Twitter ads. It was really beneficial because 77 million copies were sold.   

There are many users posting their races, tutorials or cars onto YouTube. Also, players of Gran Turismo 5 have attempted to remake/ edit a new GT5 trailer. In my opinion, if I wasn’t searching for the specific Gran Turismo 5 trailer, they were alright because mainly one person made the trailer up themselves. Otherwise, the semi- pro trailers were irritating because those weren’t the ones I wanted to add to the blog.

I would think 14-50 year olds would play the game because teenagers would prefer to drive fancy, fast and brilliantly looking cars and Gran Turismo includes the following: Bugatti Veyron, Mercedes SLS AMG, Fernando Alonso’s Ferrari F1 car and many more (the cars I have in GT5). Although Gran Turismo 5 has cars for teenagers liking, they also have the classic old cars for the older which would around the ages mostly of 27-50. They also cost a lot of money in Gran Turismo 5. 

The majority of males would probably prefer to play GT5, than girls. I says 75 of males would play GT5 and 25 Percent of females would play the game. This is because whenever I play Gran Turismo 5, I have never come across a female and this is my evidence.

The promotion of Gran Turismo 5 was successful I know this because Playstation 3 added the game as a bundle as a positive way for the game and PS3 to promote itself.