Addressing Audiences

Genre – what type or category of game is it?
Content - the way it looks and why. Its styling – words, images, sound, colours, fonts.
Construction - the way in which it is structured and how the interaction is constructed.
Narrative conventions – the type of story / gameplay you’d expect.
Common Codes – the ingredients and special features they have in common.
Modes of address – how the game talk to the audience.

Just Dance 2017
• Genre – Simulator/Music/Rhythm

• Content – The words on the screen are really bright and colourful which draws in people. The images show cheerful people playing it and with people playing it shows them having fun, and it not being a serious game. It looks like a game where I could enjoy it with my friends and just have a laugh. The sounds of the game can vary because you are able to play a variety of songs but they all have a upbeat kind of time because that is the song where you can dance and get into the groove of things. The colour to the game is incredibly bright and vibrant, it shows just how upbeat the game is and how you should be cheerful while playing it, just the colour itself helps get you hyped up for the gameplay. The font is usually bright and big and when it’s not and in black then it has a bright outline to stand out.

• Construction – the game is constructed so that you follow a character on the screen as they dance. You don’t actually choose how you want to dance you always know what’s coming by using pictograms and you always expect it be pretty lively. You interact by using motion control whether that is Kinect or other ways of doing it. normally the game tracks your movements like when you are using the Wii controllers because they can follow how you're moving.

• Narrative conventions – Just dance doesn’t really have a story in and of itself because it doesn’t really have a plot to follow. all you do is just dance along to the tunes. The only narrative convention that i see when you're in the game is the type which is voice of god where you or a higher power than yourself is dancing because that is what you must do. the games lack of narrative is what really gives it narrative because all you do is follow the voice of God which just gives you the simple command of dancing with the arrows that are coming on the screen.

• Common Codes – Just Dance 2017 and The last of us don't really have anything in common the way they play is almost like they are complete opposites. One game is a dreary survival game where you follow a story like looking from the perspective of Joel while being on a mission but on the other hand Just dance is a game where you follow the voice of good in this really bright and colourful world where everything is happy and quick.


• Modes of address – the only way that Just Dance 2017 is through the dance moves because the game itself doesn't have any story to it except for dancing and getting better the only one who addresses the player is a God like figure who just gives you commands from above by showing you what to do all the way through the dance.

The last of us
• Genre – the genre of The last of us is an Action-adventure, survival horror game

• Content – The last of us takes place twenty years after a fungal infection obliterated most of the U.S. population and turned the people into zombie like creatures known as the infected. the protagonist, Joel is tasked with escorting Ellie, his daughter, to the Fireflies which is a revolutionary militia group led by Marlene, their goal is the return of all branches of US government in the wake of military oppression. he does this to help reverse engineer a cure.

• Construction – The Last of Us is a third-person post-apocalyptic game. Players traverse post-apocalyptic environments, moving through locations such as towns, buildings, and sewers to advance through the game's story. Players use firearms, improvised weapons, and stealth to defend against hostile humans and cannibalistic creatures called the infected.

• Narrative conventions – from the type of story it it you'd also expect exactly what you get, such as the fact that you go through out a post apocalyptic world fighting zombies and other people with guns and other weapons. As you go through the game you'll have to keep both yourself and ellie safe as you traverse the world fighting off the infected.

• Common Codes – Just Dance 2017 and The last of us don't really have anything in common the way they play is almost like they are complete opposites. One game is a dreary survival game where you follow a story like looking from the perspective of Joel while being on a mission but on the other hand Just dance is a game where you follow the voice of good in this really bright and colourful world where everything is happy and quick.

• Modes of address – the game doesn't really talk directly to the audience but tells the story by the characters interaction we get to understand how they feel by how they speak to each other and what they do.

Just Dance 2017
http://just-dance.ubisoft.com/en-us/news/152-253688-16/just-dance-2017-at-e3
http://123kinect.com/kinect-games/just-dance-2017/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEZHAeCIh58
http://justdance.wikia.com/wiki/Cheap_Thrills
https://store.playstation.com/#!/en-us/games/just-dance-2017/cid=UP0001-CUSA04707_00-JD2017PS4SCEA000
http://store.ubi.com/uk/just-dance--2017/5758093aef3aa5461e8b4567.html
http://www.icxm.net/x/just-dance-2017-review-icxm-net-xb1-only.html

The Last of Us
http://www.knowyourmobile.com/games-consoles/last-us/23815/13-reasons-every-non-gamer-should-play-last-us
http://thelastofus.wikia.com/wiki/The_Last_of_Us_Wiki
http://collider.com/the-last-of-us-movie-update-sam-raimi/
http://www.gamesradar.com/last-us-2-prototypes-will-be-resurrected-once-uncharted-4s-dlc-done/
http://www.ps4info.de/the-last-of-us-zahlreiche-neue-screenshots-veroffentlicht/
https://www.amazon.com/Last-Us-Remastered-PlayStation-4/dp/B00JK00S0S?th=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjlDCIuEb0g
http://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/last-us/
http://www.gamerevolution.com/cheats/the-last-of-us
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/06/the-last-of-us-review-me-you-and-the-infected/