Aaron's Media Blog

Atari Pong 1972 :   This early console was certainly not the first of its kind   Pong  single-handedly defined the video game industry (and its future) with his ping-pong themed arcade game. Named after the sound the ball made on the paddle   Pong  marked the beginning of Atari's legacy as a video game legend and was one of the first games to allow gaming in friends. Nintendo Entertainment System 1985 : Designed to look like a household appliance (and  not  like a video game console), the NES was the first console released post  1984-tech crash . The console was  sold in the USA with  the classic games,  Super Mario Bros.  and  Duck Hunt , along with the accompanying lightgun, robotic operation buddy (R.O.B.), and original controllers. Reaching its height of popularity during the '80s, the NES paved the way for the Japanese gaming giant. NES is an example of how gaming has mixed western and eastern culture. The biggest...

Independent Film - I, Daniel Blake Independent films are more artistic and more about cultural expression than mainstream films are. Independent films usually have a smaller budget and less people involved. Independent films make you think and ask questions more. Since less money is put into independent films profit isn't a main goal. Ken Loach directed I Daniel Blake, he works for sixteen films, a small independent production company he started. Sixteen films partnered with a French company called why not productions, who are a fan of loach, they helped make the film. Eone productions distributed and marketed the film and neither sixteen films or why not productions are not vertically integrated so they can't distribute. they still needed more funding so they got that form the bbc and bfi. Ken Loach focuses on the niche genre of social realism and this is the genre of his movies. It isn't a hugely popular genre and doesn't do that well in cinema compared t...

The  Narrative is about  rascal's dream of getting out of the streets  and how he has achieved that dream and is successful. It is a motivational message to tell young people to follow their dreams and too optimistic about their hopes. The white middle class are represented as an oppressor as the middle class, elderly white woman tells Rascal when he is allowed to come out of his box. This is a physical box, seen in the video, and a metaphorical box as young black people are often limited in what society allows them to do as a career. At the end of the video Dizzie is sent back into his box. Dizzie is also a lot smaller than the woman. Representing his lower place in society. Puppets are in the video in place of normal people. This shows that these people are being controlled by society and aren't able to reach their dreams. One of the puppets also resembles a golliwog. This is Dizzie making reference this a society that looks at black people negatively. The elderly wom...

Explore how  gender and/or ethnicity  is  represented  in at least three examples from the med ia (TV, film, magazines, music videos, games, film, advertising etc). In this essay I'll be looking at the various representations of black people across different media. I'll be looking at a U.K drill video "3+4" by A.M, a Chinese l aundry   advert by Qiaobi and  a U.K rap video "Black" by Dave. 3+4  A.M (Music Video) This is a drill music video and the majority of the people in the video, including the artist, are black males. The video represents gang culture in London which is often associated with black males. In this music video black people are represented as violent and disres pectful. Mainly black males. The mise-en-scene shows the men are masked, trying to hide there faces to not get caught for the crimes they are going to commit. This represents black people as immoral criminals. It also shows them making hand...