section 4 opening

Brett Mowery

Media and the creative process

April 6, 2014

Opening section 4

 For the opening I am choosing to talk about the video game demo, which I played. The video game seemed to be about a little robot that interacts with the world to break into this industrial palace. I couldn’t tell very much from the game, as it only seemed to be the first couple of parts of the game. Overall I thought the game was visually appealing in a weird artistic sort of way, but at the same time it was unforgiving. If you messed up something or did it in the wrong order you would have to restart the game from the beginning. I don’t know if that’s because it was just a demo or if that’s what you actually have to do for the game. The controls where very easy as it was a point and click adventure so its easy for all ages, however the puzzles where most likely more difficult than most children would be able to figure out. It had a cool feature where you could play a mini game and unlock the exact way to beat the level if you where really stuck. It added convenience to the game as you wouldn’t have to go online and watch a video if you where stumped but at the same time it seems as though it could be greatly abused as there didn’t seem to be a limit on how many times you could do it. Overall the game looked decent but I would not personally recommend it as I hate point and click games. 

 I also watched the Nollywood ted talk, which really opened my eyes and inspired me. I thought it was amazing how these film makers just pump out movies, not because they want money, but for the passion. As one of the directors said in the documentary preview they have to pump out films every week and just keep going for if they don’t they will not eat, and that is truly eye opening. It gave me a lot of respect for these film makers and was truly inspiring. 

 The second thing I watched was the Ted talk on video games where it talks about your brain on video games. I always like hearing about the positive things about video games and how they aren’t spawns of Satan and out to burn the world down and drive us to anarchy. I used to be an adamant gamer myself back in the day, but I really stopped playing around two years ago. I was fascinated by the fact that it actually approved a lot of cognitive abilities. The tracking made a lot of sense to me, as you constantly have to pay attention and track not only your players but enemy players as well. The thing that surprised me was the fact that it improved some gamer’s vision. I always thought that it would just destroy your vision, watching a screen for so long, but learning that it didn’t was really comforting to me and gave me hope that I won’t go blind because of all my video game playing. 

 The final thing I watched was the sound design for Halo reach. I grew up my whole life on Halo, and it was the first game I every played, and played for hundred of hours. The sound design always blew me away for the games. The music was of epic proportions and really created an epic feel, and I always wanted to know how that was working. The “stripey room” was a really cool idea in which seemed to make the audio process more fluent and a lot easier. Its crazy how much time they really spent on the audio alone for this game. I’m highly interested in sound design and love hearing about this kind of stuff. 

Rugby club adds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utn77kM4k8A  radio comercial

  poster

http://ohiorfc.com/    website

listening analysis

Listening Framework

Hey jude

Listening Phase 1 (Rhythm)

Source piano

Time/Tempo 4 bps

Groove upbeat

Listening Phase 2 (Arrangement)

Instrumentation piano

Structure/Organization piano base with drumlin and tambourine

Emotional Architecture build up beginning with piano, other instruments slowly join in, chorus is the drop

Listening Phase 3 (Sound Quality)

Balance

-          Height low

-          Width centered

-          Depth 5

Listening Framework

Johnny b. goode

Listening Phase 1 (Rhythm)

Source drums

Time/Tempo 5 bps

Groove up beat/dance groove

Listening Phase 2 (Arrangement)

Instrumentation guitar

Structure/Organization starts up at a high guitar solo, slows down at chorus

Emotional Architecture starts of strong, starts off early

Listening Phase 3 (Sound Quality)

Balance

-          Height high- guitar base- drums

-          Width centered

-          Depth 7

Listening Framework

Good vibrations

Listening Phase 1 (Rhythm)

Source drums

Time/Tempo 4 bps

Groove Grovey

Listening Phase 2 (Arrangement)

Instrumentation vocals

Structure/Organization built underneath drums and piano with good vocals. Pretty much all chorus

Emotional Architecture stays pretty constant throughout

Listening Phase 3 (Sound Quality)

Balance

-          Height high – vocals – low drums

-          Width centered

-          Depth 5

Listening Framework

Whats going on

Listening Phase 1 (Rhythm)

Source some string instrument

Time/Tempo 3 bps

Groove slow smooth, souly

Listening Phase 2 (Arrangement)

Instrumentation drum and string instrument

Structure/Organization steady pace throughout, picks up towards middle

Emotional Architecture build up slow drop in middle endish

Listening Phase 3 (Sound Quality)

Balance

-          Height high- singing, low- drums

-          Width centered

-          Depth 3

Listening Framework

(SIMPLIFIED)

Listening Phase 1 (Rhythm)

Source guitar

Time/Tempo 4 bps

Groove dancing

Listening Phase 2 (Arrangement)

Instrumentation guitar

Structure/Organization built with guitar pushing beat and drum line underneath

Emotional Architecture chorus builds up to the non chorus part

Listening Phase 3 (Sound Quality)

Balance

-          Height even

-          Width centered

-          Depth 4

Poem Video

file:///C:/Users/Owner/Desktop/poemR.htm

just copy and paste the URL

Created characters

http://www.voki.com/mywebsite.php

Heres a link to my characters

Pippin:

Age group: 6-8

genre: puzzle

Larry the leprican

Age Group: 8-10

Genre: point and click adventure

Jenifer James

Age group: 10-12

Genre: action/adventure

Zombie run

Zombie Run Hypothesis

I think the reason why zombie run is such a successful idea is because it makes running lead to immediate rewards. Humans live for immediate gratification. A perfect example of this is a psychological test. It was found in about 90% of people that they would rather receive 15$ immidetly rather than 25$ in two weeks. This game takes that idea and puts it into an app. You can progress your village and level up just by running aka immediate reward, rather than a reward that you can’t really see or even feel immedietly which is running. It also draws you into another world and adds more encouragement to running.

Proposal

            Hello gentleman, I come to you today with a great new business venture in the mobile app game industry.  its what I like to called war monger. In this game you must run in order to gain resources such as gold, oil, and metals. The objective of this game is to build up your country and armies in order to conquer the globe. The more you run not only the more resources you gain, but if you are in  battle, you have a higher chance to win. It increases your troops moral and stamina. When you go to battle you will have an option to do operations which also increase your chances of winning. The operations give you more resources as well. The operations would be to run a certain distance and once you reach your distance the operation will be complete. There will also be an online option  in which you can battle other. You will have a day to complete operations and the further you run the more operations you will complete. There will be leagues in which it monitors your average distances run and but you within those leagues. The more you run the greater league you ear and the more you progress. 

created games

http://www.stencyl.com/users/index/215691

follow this link to see some incredibly basic games that i created

48 hours Ohio universtiy shoot out. Honorable mention

Drella

listening analysis - Nikki Manaj stupid hoe

Listening Framework

(Stupid Hoe Nikki Minage)

Listening Phase 1 (Rhythm)

Source [background robot clapping its hand together

Time/Tempo 200 bpm

Groove like a two year old got a hold of a whistle and made one of his friends clap his hands repeatedly

Listening Phase 2 (Arrangement)

Instrumentation robot clapping and someone yelling whoop

Structure/Organization its not, it stays the same throughout just like most of the terrible songs out there. Except for near the end it slows down a bit and then picks up and go crazy

Emotional Architecture straight drops in at the beginning, slows down towards end drops at very end

Listening Phase 3 (Sound Quality)

Balance

-       Height seems to have a high frequency

-       Width  no panning

-        

-       Depth 3 layers

Listening analysis worksheet Rebecca Black, Friday

Listening Framework

(Friday Rebecca black)

Listening Phase 1 (Rhythm)

Source [the drum line, and the overly synthesized sound of the singer keeping a rhythm

Time/Tempo 130 bpm

Groove [there isn’t much personality, its kind of bland and dead, the same repetitious beat without much life. It’s a weak drum line with robotic sounds]

Listening Phase 2 (Arrangement)

Instrumentation drums drive the song]

Structure/Organization the song repeats the same beat quite literally throughout the entire song. Sometimes they throw in a symbol but other than that it really doesn’t change the whole time

Emotional Architecture [it starts with Rebecca going yeah yeah yeah and then stays the same until the “rap” solo and nothing else. Stays consistent throughout]

Listening Phase 3 (Sound Quality)

Balance

-       Height singers voice is incredibly, painfully high. Like ear bleeding high

-       Width couldn’t hear any stereo panning

-       Depth about 3

Listening Analysis Worksheet Justin Biebers Baby

Listening Framework

(Justin Biebers Baby)

Listening Phase 1 (Rhythm)

Source [background bass stomp and clap]

Time/Tempo [6 beats per frame]

Groove [describe how the personality of the rhythm]

Listening Phase 2 (Arrangement)

Instrumentation [synthesizer with slight piano in background]

Structure/Organization [bass stomp with clap and then a few piano notes thrown in interchangeably and electrical keyboard in there]

Emotional Architecture [start with a slow piano build up then jumps into the same repetitive beat and doesn’t change the rest of the song. With it randomly dropping off then picking up for chorus]

Listening Phase 3 (Sound Quality)

Balance

-       Height [voice high, intrsrumental low]

-       Width [center panning]

-       Depth [about 5 layers]