Wednesday, 15 July 2009

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.

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