Narrative
My game review report will consist of many
different narrative forms, the reason there isn't just one is because I’m going
to give a brief description of many different things incorporated into my game
report which will expand different narrative forms. Narrative forms such as
“news” which will give detailed information on the current events, which is
presented by, broadcast, Internet and word of mouth, this will be my main one
as I’m doing my report through a video report, which will be then broadcast-ed
onto the web. Biography will also take place as I give a detailed description
of the in-game characters lives and their background history and the importance
of the character in the game.
Autobiography will also be incorporated as
a form of narrative in my game report as I’ll reveal some description of my own
life during the game walk-through and share jokes with viewers keeping them
entertained and more likely to watch the next video reports. These different forms of narratives will make
sure to attract an audience that are frequent players of the game grand theft
auto or beginners seeking for advice on how to play or start off in the game
which is why my video report is very useful as it contains all the guidance
needed from a frequent experienced GTA 5 player. This narrative will hopefully
target my audience in a way I intended to do so, expressing the ways to do
certain activities to earn money in the game that aren't boring and daunting
will attract a much larger audience because let’s face it, nobody likes to do
something that’s not entertaining so you get the best of both worlds.
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Genre: Once the audience knows what genre your
report is, what kind of things will they expect to see in it? How can you use
these expectations to target your desired audience?
As the audience has settled in with my video report
and they understand what genre it’s targeting (which is both male and female)
they will expect certain things in my report such as a detailed description of
a walkthrough which will show them guidance from a very experienced players
point of view, I’ll explain the steps to take in order to obtain in-game
currency through simple tasks such as completing missions and looting from gang
attacks.
The audience will expect to see certain methods to
earn cash in-game, things such as robbing liquor stores, gas stations and
stealing cars and re-selling them, I've also included a method of killing
players for money as well because the majority of people in-game like the idea
of player killing so I’m hoping by including this method I can also grab another
larger audience from the game. I've researched into most of the Grand Theft Auto
5 reports and tutorials on YouTube and the majority of them are hunting players
and killing them, I’ve noticed that a large audience like to do this as its fun
and competitive, so this is why I’m going to include this method into my game to
attract a larger audience to my videos.
Technical
codes How
will you use editing, sound, lighting and camera shots and movements to target your desired audience?
The video editing won’t be over dramatic, because it
doesn't need to be. It’s a video report and I’m going to stick with simple
basic editing to ensure I get the point across, it’s not a movie so I’m not
going to treat it like one. My audience is after a detailed tutorial/report on
how to do a specific thing and I’m going to get that across to them without
bombarding them with flashing and fading effects throughout the video which is unnecessary.
I will however be including tracking pictures in my video, tracking as such
where I’ll be placing a water mark at the bottom right hand corner of my video
to let them know who’s commentating over the video.
The sound will however have some slight adjustments
to it, due to me reading out a script I can sometimes find it difficult to not
screw up or let it go the way I initially wanted it to go so there will be some
parts where I’ll cut it out and start fresh, to make it sound not as obvious I will
fade out the sound clips and fade it back in softly with a certain editing tool
so it doesn't seem as annoying, also towards the end of the video I shall fade
out the volume as well as the video to give it that soothing away feeling when
the video comes to an end. This hopefully won’t bother my audience as much and I
hope that the video will grab their full attention more to the mistakes I make
with the audio. Another point to consider is my voice over the in-game sounds, I’m
going to eliminate all in-game sounds on this video just because I don’t think
it’s important as I’m going to be guiding people through the video anyway they’re
not really necessary, my voice will be overpowering it anyway so that’s the
important part.
The camera shots on the other hand are based on the
in-game capture, I will on the odd occasion rotate the screen on a different
angle to show the viewers something that probably can only be looked at on that
specific angle, however if it’s not necessary then I won’t bother, there’s no
need to add fancy camera angles to something like that, like I said I’m just
trying to get the point across to my target audience on the topic they wish to
hear about not edit a video to professional standards. Getting down to basics
will hopefully attract a more wider audience because they don’t want to be
watching someone playing the game all day and going on about something they
just want to watch the video, learn something quick, and get back to playing
the game. This Is why I believe I’ll attract a more wider audience than someone
who would spend too much time editing their video above basic standards and
brag on about pointless things.
The lighting isn't going to be an issue, as I won’t
be recording myself in person there’s no need to go into detail about it, it’s
all in-game recording with a voice over commentary so the only lighting will be
in-game and I’ll be recording both in-game and night time sequences just to mix
it up a little no reason really, however I do believe adding a fade out effect
at the end of the video will make it look slightly more interesting so I might as
well include it.
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Visual imagery How will you use pictures, positioning of images,
colour, iconography, captions, fonts and graphics to target your desired
audience?
My pictures and positioning of my images such as my
watermark will be out of the way of the video mostly because it’s not of much
importance, it’s there solely to mark that it’s my video, the colour however I've
chosen because of the background colour, I've chosen white because it stands
out from the current background colour which is what’s mainly on screen that’s
dark such as the concrete in-game. Picking this colour will make sure it’s
easier to read the picture than something that would be of similar colour to
the background making it much more difficult to understand what the picture is
or even means.
The font I've used is rather impressive, I’m
going to be using a stylish font which can be downloaded from a website that
specializes in font design which is www.dafont.com,
the font I've chosen also comes with a picture of wings that can be entered at
the start of ending of a text, so I’ll place my name ‘GTA DIMO’ in the middle
and at each side I can place a wing which will easily turn it into an icon, so I've
manage to save resource time by not needing to create a separate graphic but
re-use one that’s free and available for everyone online. I also think this
will attract the audience more because it’s a rather fancy logo.
Captions won’t really be necessary for my
video, if I do however make a mistake in my video and only notice it later on I
will add a caption If I believe it’s necessary, I do believe this will look un
professional and will probably make some of my audience fall due to it being tacky
and not well thought through.
Modes of address How will the content you select and the language
you use target your desired audience?
To target
my desired audience in terms of content in my video I’ll mainly be adding basic
features such as a professional modern personal logo/watermark in my video I didn't
really aim it towards any specific gender as I believe both should be equal and
I don’t aim to hit any specific gender in my videos as it’s for all genders.
But I do believe if I were to hit a specific gender audience such as female for
example I’d be driving around in a pink car and using fancy intros with some
music probably, but I don’t like to be sexist so I like to keep it equal for
both genders.
The
language however will be formal, I won’t be incorporating much swearing in my
video if I can help it, I’ll only be using mild language such as ‘idiot’ or ‘moron’
which doesn't seem to be as offensive to the general public as something much
more extreme, I wouldn't say I’m doing this for a purpose because of the age
rating because that would be silly as the games age rating is 18+ anyway so
younger people shouldn't be watching a video and expecting no swearing involved
as the games content actually contains swearing, but for this video like I said
I muted the in-game music/sound and it’s just me talking over. I’m mainly just
going to be talking in a normal toned voice to act sensible and mature and to
just get my message across and probably incorporate some slight humor or
sarcasm in my voice to make it slightly less boring.
