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Woman Magazine IPC - conglomerate 1964 set issue How to be a housewife Exists to make money  Assassins Creed III Liberation   Ubisoft  Major organisation  Exists to make money The Times Newscorp / News UK Major organisation  Media conglomerate Also publishes The Sun  - Conglomeration can skew political biases, pushes a political agenda  Exists to make money  Late Night Women's Hour  BBC  Major organisation  Adbusters Minor organisation Self funded - Adbusters foundation 

Radio component 1 section b Late Night Women's Hour Radio programme which has been on for many years Broadcast once a month, late at night  It is a 'Magazine show' - covers a range of different human interest stories, wide variety of articles for general audience.  Broadcast via BBC Radio 4  Broadcasts at 11pm on a Friday.  - Target audience, middle aged and middle class, stays in on a Friday night (however, maybe not accurate because can be listened to digitally later) - 40% of listeners are men, 60% women  - Left-wing bias LNWH - Home - Friday 28th October 2016  How does LNWH meet the needs of it's audience? - Talks about home craze for the UK - Hygge (Scandanavian culture) - Talks about creating cricketer dolls - Many women from different backgrounds as guests (Scandanavian cook, British 'crafter' / Podcaster and ... ) - Talk about role of women in the home and role of home itself  - "I'm sure many of you have had an experience wh...

BBC Sounds Website - Range of ethnic diversities: ethnic group feels included and can relate to host, appealing to more ethnic groups increases audience and money  - Bold vibrant colours on white background - Range of ages  -  John Peel BBC Radio 1 presenter - would play most extreme music imaginable. 70's/80's. As time went on he became more incompetent, leaving CD's skipping, playing weird noises, having dead air etc He had a dedicated audience but with a lower number than usual. BBC ended up moving him to an 11pm-1am slot, but never got rid of him. When he died he was never replaced because his style was too subversive.  Registering for BBC Sounds On the register/login page is David Attenborough. He represents the BBC as an institution who is iconic for the BBC and Britain. He is associated with: documentaries, respect, quality, intelligence and integrity.  BBC Music 6 Live (Shaun Keaveny, with guest Kit Harington) Audience prompts Ho...

Initial research Find  eight  pieces of promotional material related to  Assassin's Creed III: Liberation.  These may include the following: Posters - A Banner ads Promotional trailers - A Videos of events - No official release for remastered edition, so no event videos Fan produced media (example let's plays) Reviews - A Print adverts Merchandise, including soundtrack CDs and T -shirts - A Assassins creed backpack Shares the iconography of the game  No big labels, niche audience, only assassins logo Working class teenagers/young adults,  Draw up a detailed pen portrait for the target audience for  Assassin's Creed III: Liberation.  Think age, gender, class, lifestyle, cultural capital… Age - 14-23 Gender -  Female, heterosexual (primary audience),  Male, Heterosexual (secondary, audience)  Class - Working class Lifestyle - Free time, expendab...

What demographic do these games target? Include gender, age, social group and sexuality What genres do these games belong to? What age ratings do these games have? (remember: the age rating for a media product rarely tells us what demographic it is actually targeting, and this is especially true of videogames!) Who developed these games? How do these games target a local and international audience? 1. Super Smash Bros Ultimate Demographic -  enres -  Age ratings -  Developer -  Targeting Audiences - 2. Super Mario Party  Demographic -  enres -  Age ratings -  Developer -  Targeting Audiences - 3. Red Dead Redemption 2 Demographic -  enres -  Age ratings -  Developer -  Targeting Audiences - 4. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Demographic -  enres -  Age ratings -  Developer -  Targeting Audiences - 5. Marvel's Spider-Man Demographic -  enre...

The Video Game Industry  History  1962 Game Space War - developed internally, less commercial more academic to prove it was possible. Kept around the designated computer and people played it. Figured out later that it could be played over the network in the facility in real time to play with others. Using the internet people started playing role playing games like dnd online called MUDS  First games by engineers and scientists. Computers at this stage normally huge and expensive. Not commercial at all. Often games would be stored on hundreds of punch cards.  As time goes on and things begin to change it became more commercial.  Taito in 1979 made Space Invaders. Black and white initially. Shoot rows of monsters as they advance. Genre is a shoot-em-up. Ridiculously popular in Japan with huge success, apparently it was so popular in 1970's that Japan needed to mint more 100Y coins because they were using them all on the game. Huge halls were ...