Textual Analysis of Atari vs. Nintendo.

I did a textaul analysis of a documentary style video I found on the website play value.
This video is related to my work because it is a documentary regarding the history of gaming institutions that I am going to be studying.
Firstly I found that because it was a documentary, the camera angles were mainly "talking heads", also there were some clips form old games made by the institutions being viewed.
The ideology behind the documentary is to show people what actually went on behind the scenes concerning the fued between two major gaming producers.
The genre of the documentary considers gaming.
Institutions behind the documentary are Atari and Nintendo, they speak about how they each attempted to out do one another in terms of releasing games before each other and legal terms regarding them.
The audience for this kind of documentary would be fans of gaming who are keen to learn more about the history of gaming and what happened to put some institutions out of buisness.
Regarding the narrative, events revised over in the documentary are put across in chronological order, starting from what first happened to start off the fued between Atari and Nintendo. Of course the narrative is in this way because it is a typical documentary.

EA Sports is an Auteur.

The Institution EA sports is evidently an Auteur. I know this because the institution uses similar styles of video games such as... FiFa and Rugby and FiFa Streets and NFL. Because EA sports use a similar style and theme of video games like these (sports games), it makes the institution an Auteur.

Applying Auteur Theory and a critisism.

The Auteur theory could be critisised because the director could be influenced more by the work of their peers rather than their own creative vision.

Because of my interest in video games I believe that me and my group who are planning on doing this idea of studying the history of video games would be able to elaborate on certain areas of the documentary.

Auteur Theory

The Auteur theory is when the director of a film can be assigned the role or "title" of an author.
"The strong director imposes his own personality on a film; the weak director allows the personalities of others to run rampant."
To be considered an Auteur, the film maker must have some kind of work which can be analysed for themes that are ongoing. These themes can be intentially or unintentially. An Auteur must have a differentiating style, which can be almost instantly recognisable.
The Auteur theory has many criticism's and problems with it.

Initial Ideas part 2

My updated ideas for my investigation is now to produce a documentary or a radio broadcast based around the history of video games.
This investigation could involve how video games have developed over time.

Initial Ideas

My initial ideas for my MS3 investigation are to either create a magazine or a radio show. I have also been thinking of looking into games within the media today.
Gaming is something which I am pretty interested in so I believe that I could do well when investigating into Games as it is something that I enjoy.
I thought about designing a gaming magazine, I first considered this when we had the lesson studying games. I found it interesting and it was helpful discovering that Media theories and key concepts can be applied to games the same as films and other media texts.