Media Studies - Video Games
Grand Theft Auto V
Media language
Watch the trailer for Grand Theft Auto V and then answer the questions on the screen or use the student sheet.
Identify three camera angles and explain their purpose.
Make a list of genre iconography used in the trailer.
How is the audience positioned by this trailer? What effects are the music, locations and narrative supposed to have?
How realistic is the presentation of the game? Using Baudrillard’s theories of post-modernism, how far could the setting and characters of GTA V be considered a ‘simulation’?
Read the quote at the top of the page again. Using Hall’s reception analysis, what sorts of responses could audiences have to the Grand Theft Auto franchise?
Extended task. With close reference to the GTAV trailer, how important is genre to the marketing of the game?