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Unit 13 Understanding the Computer Games Industry
Week 1Introduction to The Media Industry
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• What do you understand by the term the Media?
• What areas of the Media do you know?
List as many areas as you can think of.
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What Are Media Industries?
Name 3 industries that you can work in that could be called ‘Creative Media’?
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Creative Media Industries!
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Why Bother?
Activity – Look at the person next to you. In pairs, discuss 3 reasons why it is
important to understand all media industries
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Your Media Industry
Funding Structure
Ethics & Law Development
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The first games were launched in the 1960s. By the 1970s there was a Games Industry with arcades and home entertainment consoles. Home computing exploded in the 1980s and brought a period of huge expansion.
Games became an industry, and moved away from 2 or 3 companies producing software and hardware.
Developing game titles now involves large teams of people, and costs millions of pounds.
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The Games Industry Employs 30 thousand
people in the UK!
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Within 24 hours of it launch, Microsoft generated $200 million (£129 million) for launch day sales of Halo: Reach. In doing so, the game managed to beat the opening day box office totals of James Camerons Avatar which only managed to garner $26.7 million on opening day!
HALO KICKED AVATARS BUTT!
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Homework
Choose a Developer.
Write a paragraph about the Developer eg. when they started, where they are based (UK office?), what games are they know for?
Make a list of job roles and write a sentence about each one.