Tuesday, January 29, 2019

i daniel blake



But Loach has erred in the opposite direction. For a filmmaker who styles himself a ‘social realist’, he has an absurdly romantic view of benefit claimants.' opposite reading

Director: Ken Loach
Writer: Paul Laverty
Stars: Dave johns, Hayley squires, Sharon Percy
Funding: 16 films
budget: Low budget
distribution: eOne films
Casting: Casts lots of people from the setting and who aren't actors for a feeling of authenticity


Tuesday, January 8, 2019

Assassins creed 3: Liberation

The genre of the game is action-adventure, stealth. The avatar you play as is Aveline, the first female assassin in the series. With her you can switch between three outfits: an assassin's outfit, a slave disguise, and a posh dress. The game is initially set in 1700s New Orleans, but you are able to travel to other places later in the game. The controls are more or less the same as the rest of the Assassin's creed games, but slightly changed to adapt to PS Vita. For example, if you wanted to run in an Assassin's creed game using a PS3 controller, you would have to hold both the R1 and X buttons, but to run with the PS Vita controls, you only have to hold down the R2 button. There was already a previous Assassin's Creed game released on the PSP, so this was the second AC game released as a portable game. However, the controls were more reminiscent of those on a console game and it was later released for some consoles in HD. The multiplayer options of the game was extremely limited and was essentially a mini game of dispatching troops to nodes on a map, this was a far cry from the mechanics of the single player game and was a disappointment to fans. The limitations of the game was mostly down to the PS Vita's limits such as poor graphics compared to the mainline releases and laggy visuals with frequent framerate drops. However the game also had Issues with the AI of NPC's glitching and not responding correctly to the player.

The company that develops and publishes the assassins creed franchise is Ubisoft, a french game company headquartered in Montreuil, France they own multiple successful video game franchises such as Assassins Creed, Far Cry, Watch Dogs which are all story driven Action Adventure games as well as more pure FPS games such as Rainbow Six siege and Tom Clancy's: The Division.
Film trailer  & Poster - avengers infinity war

The avengers infinity war poster stands reminiscent of the old style of painted posters, such as star wars and krull. It shows off all of the hero characters in one poster, which appeals to main selling point of the film; being that all the characters from the universe that has been created around the franchise will appear in the film. The characters diverse colour schemes are united by the flares of the various colours. In this way the characters don't seem out of place with each other as they may have previously being from different films.

The franchise's symbol of the 'A' stands in the middle to establish a clear brand and stand out. In a similar fashion the title is at the bottom below the ground of the characters and in a mostly dark negative space to draw attention to itself. Some characters have been given more space in the poster than others for example the face of Robert Downey Junior's character being at the top and the largest of all the faces to connote its importance.