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Minecraft: Institutions and Audiences which explores all these things in written form, with images, videos and links usig your findings from the reading.

 How is Minecraft different to other video games? Minecraft is a first person role play game, the difference between it and other standout games on the market is that Minecraft allows their players to design, create and destroy the world that they create. Minecraft pushes the boundaries to how the player can interact with the game personally. The higher levels of personalisation has made Minecaft unique and therefore a stand out game for players who want to immerse themselves in their own fantasy world with the option for multiplayer interaction via the internet. Minecraft was created to produce a game that had a accessibility for gamers of all abilities and first and for most to create a game that brings enjoyment to their audience. Minecraft was not created to create money, the creater Markus Persson create the game as it was a hobby of his. Persson never believed the game would have spired into a company worth multiple billions. Minecraft has no set rules that pla...

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Peligro Music Video

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Peligro, Giggs featuring Dave Music video Music Video  Research and Planning Peligro is a British grime song by Giggs featuring Dave from 2017. We chose to use this song as it did not have an original music video. The song was released in October 2017, making it a current song and therefore more appealing to us due to it being contemporary.   This allowed us to create an original text which we believed suited the pace and rhythm of the song.  Grime is a British genre of rap that has become increasingly mainstream within the past decade.  This therefore made it assessable to take conventions from within the genre and implement them into our video. We decided on the genre very early on within the task. It was made evident that an urban and abstract video was what we were aiming to make. The first task was to find a song that we believed was suitable for the video we were trying to make. We looked for about ten minutes trying to find a suitable sing f...

GQ

Background Information on GQ ‘GQ‘, stands for Gentleman’s Quarterly. The Magazine was first launched in 1931 in American. In 86 years ‘GQ’ have released 1,032 issues of their magazine.​ The magazine only published in New York from 1931 to 1957. Within this time period the magazine was know as ‘Apparel Arts’. In 1957 the name ‘Apparel Arts’ was dropped and became know as ‘Gentlemen's Quarterly’. Along with this change the magazine was made national (available ac​ross the whole of America). The magazine only published in New York from 1931 to 1957. Within this time period the magazine was know as ‘Apparel Arts’. In 1957 the name ‘Apparel Arts’ was dropped and became know as ‘Gentlemen's Quarterly’. Along with this change the magazine was made national (available ac​ross the whole of America). The magazine only published in New York from 1931 to 1957. Within this time period the magazine was know as ‘Apparel Arts’. In 1957 the name ‘Apparel Arts’ was dropped and be...