LO3: Script

LO2: Moodboard

LO2: Research

IGN (12/3/2015) 'Turkey about to ban minecraft' available at http://uk.ign.com/articles/2015/03/12/mojang-responds-to-possible-minecraft-ban-in-turkey [accessed: 10/6/2015]

We used sites such as IGN and BBC News in Gaming for research into the stories for the script. Here's the page for the Minecraft story used in the script.

Stories researched:

Anticipated game Project Cars has been delayed for the third time in a row, resulting in the game’s launch date to be moved back another month. According to publisher Namco Bandai, the hyper-realistic racing sim is now expected to be released in “mid-May” time, and this was to ensure the final build matches fan expectations.
Developer Ian Bell confirms out of the critically-acclaimed racing games that this will be its most “grand and intricately detailed of them all”.

The widely loved sandbox game Minecraft, based on players having the ability to create whatever they please in an open-world, is currently facing a ban in Turkey for being “too violent” and that its depictions of violence “cannot be ignored” according to the Turkish Family and Social Policies Ministry.  This has sparked controversy for gaming fans in Turkey, as Minecraft is believed to be a game solely based on creativity and imagination, rather than an excuse to act as a violent game.

PlayStation Vue, a new project that will act as a cloud-based TV streaming service for both PlayStation 3 and 4, will begin its commercial rollout nationwide by the end of the month for select invitation-only tests. Vue will be targeting “cord-cutters”; people who ditch their traditional cable providers in favour of digital-only services. Vue will let viewers watch many different live TV and on-demand content from networks such as FOX, NBCUniversal, Viacom and CBS. 

The cost of subscribing to PlayStation Vue has not yet been announced, but will first be available on consoles and eventually iPads and other non-Sony digital devices.

LO2: Generate ideas for a client

Job role: 

For this unit we are working in groups to create a script for an episode of the 'Games Corner' which will be broadcast on 23 September 2014. In our group there is Me, Becky, Alex and Will. The script for our script was for the first week of the 'Games Corner', which fell on the 16th March. We initially had to have a meeting to make sure that we understood who was doing what within the unit, we decided Alex and Will would do all the pre research and Me and Becky would put all the information together into the script. 

Mindmap: 

LO2: Ideal viewer profile

Taylor is 22 years old and is a full time student at Sheffield Hallam University studying Digital Media Production. She loves her course at Uni and aims to work for one of the local games design companies. Taylor lives with her flatmate in the City centre and has a lot of spare time which she generally spends watching television and playing games on their shared gaming consoles. Her favourite games include Team Fortress 2 on PC, Formula One 2014 and Fallout 3 on Playstation 4 and Grand Theft Auto 5 on her XBOX One. She enjoys not only first person shooters but also racing games as she likes using multi-player modes to compete with friends and people online. Away from her games, Taylor is also an avid Sheffield United fan and plays in a local amateur team, so she's really looking forward to the next FIFA instalment which will include some of the national women'f football teams. When watching television, she generally tunes into informative programmes and documentaries and always checks out the latest entertainment news.