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This week, I had to revisit my Media ethics blog and make some possible changes to the blog in question. For this, I am going to be giving my thoughts on the matter of why I didn’t really like this task at all. Why I felt like it was a repeat and what changes they could’ve made to the job itself I don’t mind rewriting blogs but doing the same thing over and over again can be annoying at times.  My thoughts on this weeks rewrite To start im going to be honest here, but I’ve already made specific changes back in week 9 for the rewrite. Like I said before, I don’t mind rewriting, but the fact is is that I’ve had to rewrite my blog three times, and for the third attempt, I felt like there was no point in adding too much as I’ve gotten most of it done in week nine rewrite. Now I have added two changes to this. I’ve changed the font as I wanted to explore the blogs tools above to get a feel of them to get used to the idea of using the blog tools more when continuing with my future assign...

Changes For this week, I have to rewrite my blog for the third time. Which blog? The Media ethics blog. It is currently one of the best blogs that I’ve written. Also, it has the most comments on it, which is around six comments with good positive reviews with one criticism saying that I should expand on my thoughts on the videos in the blog that I had to review on.  For the changes, if I’m going, to be honest, I haven’t changed anything much. I mean, in rewrite #2, I’ve made the necessary changes overall which there isn’t much that I can change. If it were another one of my blogs that I could make changes to, it would’ve been good. However, I can only think of two changes that I can change, and they are: Fonts:  I never really have used any of the fonts here, so I thought, why not and mess around with fonts to see if I can find what I like and will probably use the one that I will like.  Subheadings: I have added subheadings already, but the only difference that I’ve made...

For this week im still doing my group project. Im still working on the voice recording. I have to improve on it by purchasing a microphone that can work with the iPad that im currently using, and when I get that finished, I will be done with what I have to do.  There’s not much to say. The group that im working with pretty much have everything done. We, as a group, are just tweaking some of our work, making it better written, especially when it comes to our script. For me, for the writing, I would include some things that can be improved upon. For example, instead of focusing on one game, I could be focusing on another game with a ridiculous story like the first game I worked on. For my script, you tell that it's been rushed, and it doesn’t sound good, which is why I need to focus on that and buy a microphone so that I can use it to get a better recording and a script so that I can improve upon it.  As for the editing, one of the group members can edit well. He is using Adobe ...

For this week, I will be watching some videos on media representation. There are some videos that I will be watching, and after I watch these videos, I will give my thoughts on what they are all about.  Video 1 Why Representation Matters This first video generally talks about representation and why it matters so much, and a needed change. In the video, you have people of different backgrounds, different colours and people of different genders talking about why there needs to be a change in the digital media world of representation, like other stories to be told as a way for people of those different backgrounds, different colours and different genders to watch the content that is happening so that they can resonate with. A way to tackle this issue is to hire people from different cultures to be a creator and let them tell their own story or a story that they know of people that is around them. Have more people of colour in the same room, directing and creative writers.  My tho...

For this week, I am continuing with the  Player Agency And Interactive Narrative group project. With this week, I’ve done a lot of researching regarding the topic that I’ve done some research on this would be the amount of content that the publishers keep adding to the game with such a ridiculous price that has been added to it or the games that are free but come with such a cost due to the cosmetics that come with itself. For this, I will discuss the things I’ve researched of what I found out below. Source DLC: which stands for downloadable content, is extra content that has been added to the game itself. Before, it wasn’t usually wrong. At the start of the cycle, the pricing on DLCs was low, around usually €15 to €20, which was okay, and the content was good with new activities added to the game. But as years would pass, the DLCs would become so expensive that even their price tag would be higher than the game itself. The cost of the game is around €70 or higher depending on wha...

The project group task that I’m currently working on is focusing on how gaming has changed over the years with the introduction of monetisation in gaming. It means that now in gaming, there is a lot of actual money spent on video games themselves. Spending real money on cosmetics items don’t boost you at the game at all.  Source For this project, my group all have different roles to play. The amount of people that are in my group is four people. Their names are Cian, Harry, Anthony and finally me. The name of our project that we are focusing on is Player Agency and Interactive Narrative. What Player agency is about giving players the ability to affect and change the game world through the agency. The player would have the power to influence and change what would be happening in the game as it would provide them control on what would happen next.   For this, we are looking at different ideas that are related to our topic that we have to focus on this could be PC games, Console ...