Mr Judge One to One Tutorials

After our one to one tutorial on the 2/02/15, it was evident that you are making reasonable progress for your research and planning, unfortunately there are still some outstanding tasks that need to rectify as soon as possible. Please refer to the SMART targets that we set up previously and have them completed for my next session. 

Task 2-video game-fallout 4 trailer

Fallout 4 is the next installment in Bethesdas popular Fallout franchise, which was recently announced at this years E3 to have a November 2015 release date. The game currently has an ESRB rating of M for mature, and PEGI rating of 18 in the united Kingdom, meaning that the game has content aimed towards an older and more mature audience.

The game's unique, retro-futuristic setting, has enthralled audiences for many years, and fallout has became a staple franchise in the games industry. The game is set  in 2274 in the American city of Boston, roughly 200 years after a thermo-nuclear war has plunged the world into post-apocalyptia.

The mature nature of the trailer, and its 3 minute length points towards it being not shown between television shows as advertising, as it is simply too long and more than likely wont hit its primary audience through this medium. It is more than likely however, that the place of advertising from this trailer will take place on the world wide web, most notably YouTube, as it will cater to the long cinematic feel of the trailer, and will directly present itself to the games target audience, that I personally feel would be white males between the ages of 18 to 25.

The content of the trailers, looks to both cater to old fans and new fans alike. To begin with, we see a retro looking television with the words please stand by written across the screen. If we look closely, we see that the TV is titled Radiation Kings. Both the please stand by and Radiation kings are both nods to the nuclear fallout setting of the game, and also previous fallout games.

More than likely, these features were put into the trailer in order to embed nostalgia into fans of the franchise, as things like this show up multiple times throughout the trailer. For example, we see a Nuka-Cola truck placed on a table, a mister handy box, and a robco-rocket, cot-mobile, all of which are nods to previous fallout games.

The music also reflects previous fallout games, with the inkspots, a classic acopella group, performing their song its all over. The Inkspots have featured their music in every installment in the fallout franchise, and so old fans will be happy to hear them once again. Cross cutting occurs regularly in the trailer between the ruins of the worlds current state, and the time before the nuclear war. The cross cutting matches with itself perfectly, which paints a very interesting visual display for the viewer. Once again, this was more thank likely included for old fans of the franchise, as the sequence will make more sense to them due to them being more in tune with the games history.

When the inkspots song comes to a close, the trailer takes a sudden turn, and then begins to show itself more towards newer fans of the franchise. The music turns to an epic but foreboading tone, and the trailer starts to show large scale shots of different locations throughout the game. This would have been done to show off the graphics and complexity of the game. This would have been done to ensnare people unfamiliar with the franchise, by showing off the vastness and beauty of the world.