Video Games

For or Against

In present days video games have become a part of our lives. Almost every family has Xbox or PlayStation at home to play games. If you think about it, then an average teenager spends about 1/4 of his life playing video games, chatting, watching films or I could just say - looking at a screen. 

FOR

Video games is a very good way to relax and have fun. Also if you are angry you can put all your anger into a game and calm down after that. There are many logical games for kids that would help and improve your thinking.

AGAINST
Many people get addicted to video games really fast. After playing games for many hours you don't feel where is reality and where is video game. Video games drags you into it.. There are many stories of people who have been playing shooting video games for many hours and after that they don't understand what they do and they go out and shoot people in real life. Top 10 cases of of extreme game addiction you can see here.

In all together I'm not against video games if you can control yourself. You need to know when to stop and always take regular breaks when you play video games.

Hypodermic needle theory, users and gratifications, reception study and passive or active consumptions.

The Hypodermic needle theory is some kind of a message passed to the audience. For example, if we imagine that a advert company is a ''gun'' and every advert is a ''bullet'' then these companies usually fire these bullets into viewers heads without them knowing it. If some company would advertise meat, they would put more red colours in the advert because meat is red and it tricks our brain so we feel that we want to eat it.

Users and gratifications is where someone from listening or watching your product is trying to gain something, usually that is:

• Pleasure
• Emotional Release 
• Escaping from reality 

As I will be shooting a music video I could use some of this information in there as film something that describes a song of a music video. 

Reception Theory

Reception Theory 

Reception Theory is understanding media by how audience see it and how these texts are read by audience. As for example when you watch a music video with a storyline on TV and someone distracts you or keeps asking some questions you may miss some important parts of this music video and you will not be able to understand what was showed there. 

Vantage point

When I watched the film Vantage Point I watched in the classroom with my friends and it was projected on the white board in front of the classroom. It was really hard to concentrate on this film because many people were chatting and didn't let me watch it properly. Also the room was brightly lit so it made it hard to actually watch the film.