Original sound piece

Edited sound piece

Task 3a

Gamer adaptation

Players can manipulate the market and make massive amounts of profit out of the skins. Players can also submit their own skins and make a living out of it as they get paid if their skins grab the developer’s interest. The skins are released with new major updates which feature unique skins made by the community. The game also adds mission that help you get items as you progress by getting experience points from the tasks given. You can also sell you skins for a desired price on the market if you want to.

Second article: Technology

What’s cool this week?

This week our team has chosen an unordinary object which is called Nao. Nao is a kind of a robot called a humanoid, this means that the robot is based on human, this includes looks and behaviour. The droid is produced by a French company named Aldebaran Robotics which is located in Paris. The project was first publicized in mid-2008, that’s when the first customer version came out. Over the years the robot has been developed to better understand its surroundings such as connection with humans. The technology in the robot is really impressive as it uses different sensor which when combined make the robot interact. The robot is 28in tall and weighs 3.5 kilograms and is available for purchase for these who have the money!

Evaluation

I have researched different gaming articles in order to gather information about what an article has to look like, this gave a perspective on how to design my own one, the placement of the images as well as the amount of text. I have also reviewed some reviews and facts about the game in order gather information valuable to the reader, the information i've gathered helped me with writing a detailed intro for my article where I talked about the game developer as well as the game itself. The creation of the article was in depth detailed and allowed the article to look professional, I have aligned the text with each other in order to make it look slick. The pre-production portfolio helped me plan out the design and what I'm going to write. Also in my first article I had to decide on what pictures I want to use, I knew one of them will have to represent the game and give a brief view of it, and the other will have to represent the topic I will be discussing, using this information I have found good images that I've used in my article. The images weren't copyrighted as they were for media use and were released by the developers. 

Parent Adaptation

Counter Strike; Global Offense may be a game in which you shoot opponent, but it's much more than just that. Where as most games in the same genre, such as Call of Duty, is just mindless fun, Counter Strike requires much more skill. Counter Strike can teach its players qualities in which many may consider good life skills. These skills are things such as reaction time, hand eye co-ordination and most importantly team work. One of the key components for Counter Strike is that it requires tight teamwork to achieve the goal. The main objective of the game is to defuse the bomb about to go off, players get a set amount of time to do this while fighting off waves of enemies. To win, players must communicate and work as a team to take on the offenders and defuse the bomb in time. 

Overall this game is great for teaching it's players many skills that may be required in later life as well as conveying a fun and enjoyable, team building experience.

Pitch

Finished magazine

Journalism 2 Task 1a

Step by step article creation

Article Template

Journalism 1 Task 3

Journalism 1 Task 2c

Task 2c

The traditional techniques of publishing newspaper to the digital techniques are very much different. Traditional techniques are a lot more expensive because the publisher has to invest in different materials such as paper, ink and distribution, when as the digital product is just to be uploaded to a store service on a device.

Journalism 1 Mind Map Task2B

Journalism 1 Brief history of printing(task 2a)

Journalism 2 Task 2

InDesign brief thing

Journalism 2 task 1 C

Moral, ethical and legal:

As I progress on making my work, I don’t think I will encounter any problems with my article. The article will focus on games and tech, so I don’t think that that will offend anyone enough to complain the ASA (Advertising Standards Association) as well as OFCOM because the article will not be displayed on television. I also don’t think that my article will be reported to the IPSO as it will be peaceful and user friendly. The article will not be talking about any religions or anything to do with them, therefore I don’t think any religious person will be offended by it. 

Journalism 2 Task 1 B

Target audience: The written text will be directed at people around the age of 12 – 28 years old.

Purpose: The purpose will be to inform, entertain and persuade the readers about the games or technology.

Platform: I will be planning on releasing the article on paper, but if I get the opportunity to release it online, then I will.

Synopsis/summary of ideas: The text will focus on either technology in gaming or gaming itself, I plan on talking about the new game releases or third party accessories for consoles and personal computers, the article will include reviews from different companies, rumours and information about upcoming dlc’s. The article will include various images of the product that I’ll be talking about. If the article comes in an online form I will be considering adding interactive elements on the keywords or even links to other pages.

Resources: For my articles I won’t be needing a lot of resources as I've either got them all or they will just not be needed. The obvious resources will be a computer and maybe a pen and paper. 

Journalism 2 Task 1 D

Freelance work

Task 3

Journalism 2 Task 1a

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