Monday, 17 December 2012

Media

Syed
Syed is from the masueds family, the masued family are an indian family who live in walford. They Own a Curry stand in the market and own the argee Bargee in eastenders. they are also portrayed in eastenders as being a religious Family. Syed is finding it hard to live near his family because of him being Gay.

Anwar Kharrel
Anwar is porttrayed as a young pick and choose Muslim, paskistani boy, meaning he chooses whick parts of his religion he will practise when convienient and which parts he will not when it is inconvient.
He is not a very devout muslim because he takes drugs at parties, drinks, partakes in premarital sex and even eats pork, although he does pray 5 times a day and believes that homosexulity goes against his religion.

Monday, 10 December 2012

Targeting Local Audiences Essay "Unfinished

Targeting Local Audiences

In the Gaming world today, Most Games Are Targeted at a National Audience, or a Local Audience. Game localization or game globalization refers to the preparation of video games for other locales. This adaptation to the standards of other countries covers far more than simply translation of language. There are different areas, such as linguistic, cultural, hardware and software, legal differences, graphics identity and music.Good quality localisation and QA are vital for an optimal game experience. For Localized Gaming, Heres An Example from Final Fantasy from a the Edge Magazine article.
 It took seven months for a localised version Final Fantasy VII to hit US shores after its original 1997 Japanese release. It took another two months for it to reach Europe and Australia. It took a full year before Dragon Quest VIII finally came out in the US after its 2004 Japanese release, and another five months before it arrived in the dense cultural and linguistic patchwork of Europe.
Thankfully, the days in which waiting was one of game fans' most familiar pursuits are largely over. The internet, fuelling feverish global anticipation of new releases and instant downloads, not to mention piracy, has now pushed all game releases on to the international scale from the moment they're announced – or leaked.

In the case of the series Final Fantasy, the developer, Square-Enix opts for an in-house model. European versions of Final Fantasy, such as the Spanish one, have the user interface in Spanish but the script is not dubbed. It is only subtitled and the English version is used for the voiceover. The cultural modifications have mainly to do with humour, inter-textual references and cultural references from Japanese or American culture.

In China, They would have to change a video game in it contained, explosive Bombs or even Nuclear Bombs, for example call of duty, they would have to change it or even ban the game from the country. China dont have most video games because they usually think its a waste of time. Companys have to produce gaming equipment with aorund 50 games changed into itas these are not seen as consoles by the chinese goverment. Another Example is the PC version of the game wolfenstein was withdrawn from circulation in Germany in 1994. this is Because the Nazi swastika mostly in the game, with the nazi anthem being play in the background. this was banned because of the social issues that the game may to the offensive emblems. Another example is that in china all consoles are banned as they are thought to corrupt the minds of the youth. they have been banned in china since 2000 .


Gta V Trailer Analysis



Rockstar released their well anticipated 2nd trailer for GTA V on the 14th of November. The new tralier to me felt like a film, it was filled with action and drama. it starts with the opening credits and the hit stevie wonder song "skeletons"it then starts to show an extreme long shot of los santos.


it also shows the house of the first protaganist, where there is a tennis court, showing the first protaganist is rich, then it shows a fancy sports car outside the house and shows "Rockstar Presents, you can then hear in the background arguments going on in the kitchen between the first protaganists family. In this scene we are introduced to the first protaganist, it gives away what his lifestyle is like, it shows that he has the perfect luxery lifestyle, he has a fancy sports car, he has a huge house, then it shows the first character, he is relaxing by his pool drinking whiskey.



The Second scene introduces us to the second male protaganist in Grand Theft Auto V, he is shown to the audience as being deranged, and mentally unstable. It opens the scene in a bar, and theres drunk people outside and then you see the second protaganist beating up the enemies in the bar, there is alot of jump cuts in the scene and then you see the character in a house and he setting the house on fire and blowing up the house and its like a film when you watch it this part in the trailer. Then futhur on in the trailer, you see the character jumping off a train which go's into another train which leaves this shot exploding.

Then you are introduced to the third Protaganist, Who is shown to the audience as being quite rich and having cars, and it shows the audience that there will be alot of racing or car missions involving this character. It shows Car Coming out of a van and its shows a movie trailer shot for Gta.

Finally at the end, we see the main characters are introduced together, which shows the audience that there might be a mission where they all work together and looking through the picture, they do a sign "Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil". So something bad is happening in that clip which is making audience wanting to know whats going to happen.