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  assassins creed valhalla - very high RRP (£60) major production, tripleA  - completely animated trailer, detailed and high quality graphics  - focus on narrative  - good sound design, range of high quality SFX and in sync with the action  - already established character appearance, already has an established and successful franchise  - 12 main games and 17 spinoffs (2022) - extreme generic hybridity - scifi/stealth/historical/action  - paradigmatic features of a film trailer - elements of intertextuality  - hashtags to gather large hype on social media - hosted by IGN - bigger coverage  - voice acted with bigger name actors, and game available in multiple languages --- How is the assassins creed series guaranteed to make money? - already an established franchise  - was an original concept - Steve Neal's theory of repetition and difference - basically the same, but a slightly difference story and location each time  - int...

Name of game -  Assassin's creed unity  Developer - ubisoft montreal  Publisher - ubisoft  Exclusive or multiplatform? - multiplatform  Year released - 2014 audiences have to heavily suspend their disbelief  uncanny valley - almost looks human but not  - stiff, supposed to be satisfying  video games are polysemic and provoke multiple reactions - big selling point  assassins creed valhalla - very high RRP (£60) reissuing - rereleased assassins creed 3 - liberation - rereleased on xboxone/ps4/5 Name of game - darksouls III Developer -  FROM software Publisher - Bandai Namco Exclusive or multiplatform? -  Year released - 2016 unique selling point - extremely hard  darksouls is filled with hermenutic codes - does not tell you anything 

- specific hardware - interactivity & immersion  - huge expenditure of resources - much higher RRP - £50-60 - significantly longer length - a dedicated, 'core' target audience - games developed for specific hardware, or released multiplatform  - requires more people to make them  - can be done competitively  --- three stages - pre-production - production - post production preproduction - process of research, brainstorming - concept art, writing - core concept - prove there is a market -  target audience is identified  - create prototypes - level design, alpha/beta - figure out game progressions - systems and design  - budgeting  production - development - modelling assets, coding, rules are set, environments created - programming - engine - unity/unreal or making own engine - game is continuously tested and defined - looks for bugs - music design and soundtrack  - voice actors used  postproduction - early access builds  - change...

 Assassin's creed franchise A history of video games -computer space - 1971 - the plato system - computers linked up around american universities - playing online versions of dungeons and dragons with people around the country - the japanese arcade boom - while early computers were too expensive, games were exhibited in arcades for people to play - first popularised in japan  - 100Yen to play games  - space invaders, one of the first games to have character, strips of plastic put over the screen to put colours - 1978  - called invader halls  -early 1980s - early video game arcades - atari - in america -bedroom coders and UK micros - zx spectrum - micro computers as they didnt fill an entire room - early experimentations and generic fluidity - no limit to who made videogames at this stage - no one knew or cared about target audiences, not really an industry yet  - 1980's videogame crash - E.T supposed to be the game to bring up atari didnt, because it was bu...

 How do audience responses to this product demonstrate sociohistorial circumstances? - patriarchal hegemony - feminist  - reflects a very specific and niche issue - BBC sounds is not radio - downloading information from the internet - more easily accessible by using BBC sounds webportal - can access everything and different genres eg the sink podcast  - offers a huge variety of different content - only fit so many radio stations in a certain frequency, but with sounds you can access all of them, even regional networks - CAN also be applied to the tv industry  Regulation  - regulated by OFCOM - regulate the radio and tv industry in the UK To what extent is Late night women's hour affected by regulatory issues? - has to be scheduled to after watershed - 11pm as sensitive topics can affect U18s - but rather tame so not so important  - due impartiality - information has to be accurate as per BBCs remit so host and guests opinions may not be able to be fully sta...

 How have sociohistorical factors lead to a diversification of media output? sociohistorical - what is going on in society at the time.  How do audience responses to this product demonstrate sociohistorical circumstances (LNWH) - hashtag for the show - digitally adept audiences  (vaginas/pockets) - anthropologist, blogger, journalist - stereotypical middle class professional  - political and personal, no topic "off the table" - "self cleaning oven" - philosophical, love - fashion - gender specific e.g. hidden button over bust / pockets - twitter hashtag  - we want pockets - relevant to the time - Boris Johnson as a writer for a newspaper - plurality of voices - young black british woman, older american woman  - preferred , oppositional and negotiated reading , reception theory - Stuart Hall    -preferred - agree with what the host and guests say on the show, feminist and body positive and wanting to see change in society     -womens...

Interactive Radio - on your PC, smartphone or tablet enables audiences to open a specific app and allows you more control over the radio station in question – e.g. listening to pre recorded programmes rather than listening to the current live broadcast.  This can be accessed as a traditional radio, however dependent upon the broadcaster there is the added bonus of being able to access additional content, programmes or avail of ‘catch up’ services. Podcasting - Popularised by the advent of the iPod era, typically offers episodic shows, similar to radio shows have been broadcast for decades.  These can be linked to already existing radio shows; or standalone broadcasts. Traditional and DAB - FM/ AM services are still available in the UK, however there has been a concerted effort to promote a move to digital radio. Some regional stations are now available nationally thanks to DAB and have increased their potential audience because of this. (digital audio broadcasting - higher qua...