יום שני, 25 ביוני 2012
COMMAND & CONQUER: RED ALERT 2
COMMAND & CONQUER: RED ALERT 2
This series of games was the first to really use real time strategy and created a new class of multiplayer gaming.
Before this, all multi player strategy games were two-dimensional and were also turn based.
Real time interactivity brought much more realism to the experience of the gamer.
Games became faster and allowed interactions between gamers to grow from 8 to 32 player games on dedicated servers,
Games became much more sophisticated as gamers could have instant feedback on their effect in the virtual world.
With the speed of computers becoming much faster and platforms always growing. Red Alert showed how best to use the techno to connect people very strongly with this medium.
Red Alert is one of the most popular real-time strategy video game series.
Command & Conquer has three series and expansions:
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 1 - Was developed by Westwood Studios and published by Virgin Interactive, Sony Computer Entertainment.
Expansions:
Counter strike and The Aftermath – Was developed by Westwood Studios and published by Virgin Interactive.
Retaliation – Was developed by Westwood studios and published by Sony Computer Entertainment.
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 - It’s developed by Westwood Pacific and published by EA Games.
Expansion:
Command & Conquer: Yuri’s Revenge – It’s developed by Westwood Pacific and published by EA Games.
Command &Conquer: Red Alert 3 -Was developed by EA Los Angeles and published by Electronic.
Expansion:
Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 – Uprising – Was developed by EA Los Angeles and published by Electronic Arts.
Command &Conquer: Red Alert (iOS) – Was developed by Electronic Arts and Published by Electronic Arts.
Red Alert Series Released
| GAME | Developer | Publisher |
| Command & Conquer: Red Alert 1 | Westwood Studios | Virgin Interactive |
| Command &Conquer: Red Alert 2 | 23 October 2000 | Microsoft Windows |
| Command &Conquer: Yuri Revenge | 10 October 2001 | Microsoft Windows |
| Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 | EA Los Angeles | Electronic Arts |
| Command & Conquer: Uprising | 12 March 2009 | PC, Xbox 360, PS3, Mac OS X |
| Command & Conquer: Red Alert | 16 October 2009 | IOS |
Command & Conquer developed three Red Alert series selling over 10 million units of there
Real-time strategy combat game Westwood Studios is the creators of DUNE 2 and the original.
Tiberian Dawn; Red alert is a prequel to the latter game.
Command & Conquer sold out more then 10 million copies.
Who is Westwood?
Westwood Studios was a video game developer located in Las Vegas, Nevada that operated from 1985 until 2003.
It was build by Brett Sperry and Louis Castle in 1985 as Westwood Associates and was renamed Westwood Studio when it merged with Virgin Interactive in 1992.
The company was bought from Virgin Interactive by Electronic Arts in 1998 and closed by Electronic Arts in 2003.
Their specialties are: real time strategy gaming and role-playing and adventure games.
Westwood sold more the 10 million copies of the series worldwide.
A US publisher, Electronic Arts, acquired Westwood for 122.5 million in 1999.
Electronic Arts continues to develop games based on Westwood’s Command & Conquer series.
Who is Electronic Arts?
Electronic Arts is an American developer, publisher and distributor of video game.
Trip Hawkins build this company on 28 may 1982.
Electronic Arts become one of the world largest third party publishers.
On 4 May 2011, Electronic Arts, reported $3.8 billion in revenues for the financial year ending March 2011.
On 13 January 2012, Electronic Arts announced that it had $1 billion in digital revenue.
Electronic Arts, is currently the number 1 publisher in western markets with 16% segment share and the second largest social games company on Facebook.
Electronic Arts, $221 million and 66 shares in the fast three months
Platform expansion by release date
| GAME | RELEASE DATE | PLATFORM |
| Command & Conquer | 31 October 1996 | MS- Dos, Windows, PlayStation |
| Command &Conquer: Red Alert 2 | 23 October 2000 | Microsoft Windows |
| Command &Conquer: Yuri Revenge | 10 October 2001 | Microsoft Windows |
| Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 | 28 October 2008 | PC, Xbox 360, PS3, Mac OS X |
| Command & Conquer: Uprising | 12 March 2009 | PC, Xbox 360, PS3, Mac OS X |
| Command & Conquer: Red Alert | 16 October 2009 | IOS |
Storyline
In the first Red alert we are given 4 dates: 1926, 1946, July 4th 1972 and July 31st 1972.
The game begins with real history events and creates a fantasy future without Hitler.
Back in October 24, 1916, the Russian revolution leads to the fall of the Russian Empire. Vladimir Lenin, one of the leaders of the revolution, founds the Union of the soviet Socialistic Republics (USSR).
The game then picks up in s 1946, and humans have just gone through one of the most brutal wars.
With the help of as Jewish/German scientist, the US government decides to act. USA engineers a device that enabled them to travel back in time and kill Adolf Hitler.
Without Hitler –Nazism in Germany died out before he ever became of any importance.
Stalin’s communist ideology led to communist dictatorships across Western Europe countries. The suppressed people of Europe revolt against communisms and start a guerrilla war against the Russians.
Jump forward to 1946 at the trinity site in New Mexico. Albert Einstein is building a device to send a person back in time to
1924, in Lundeberg, Germany and changes history
Hitler never rose to power and threatened all of Europe; something more terrible happened: Joseph Stalin. The Soviet empire is storming into Europe.
20 years pass between the events in Red Alert in 1971and Red Alert 2.
Red Alert 3 changes Russian history to restore the glory of the motherland.
Each Series covers a different storyline of wars between the Soviets, the Allies and the Empire of the Sun. They feature armies using massive weapons and technology.
About Red Alert 2: C& C
The Red Alert 2 went out to the stores On 23 October 2000 and after one week they sold 2 million copies. Basically this game introduces the audience choice to play on one of three sides.
On single player they also introduced interactive play inn a progressive story mode.
Depending on battles won or lost, players could choose a range of different story lines and outcomes.
Red Alert 2 also introduced audience interaction on a global scale pitting country representatives against each other. Each country had unique units, abilities and structures. Allowing the gamer new strategies and tactical options.
There area few ways to play this game:
· Single player mode, has 3 campaigns: Boot Camp, Allied and Soviet.
· Multiplayer mode actually there is two operations: LAN and Play Online. For both of them you need an Internet connection to play across the globe.
I have always believed Real time Strategy games should be played online against human opponents because fighting the computer doesn’t teach you how to play a game. It teaches you how to defend and build up an overpowering combination of proportional tactics to defend against unpredictable actions of live opponents
This media was originally only in English then grew to be translated into other languages Russian, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean and Chinese.
Red Alert 2 received rave reviews and got a rank of 86% from Game Rankings.
IGN called it outstanding and GamePro called it the most innovative game, but with its solid game play and the Cold War storyline as well Red Alert 2 is the best 2.5D real-time strategy computer game since StarCraft
Yuri’s Revenge
The largest expansion pack for Red Alert 2, Command & Conquer:
Publisher, Electronic Arts sold 3 million copies of this award winning real-time strategy game
Yuri’s Revenge released On 10 October 2001 and received rank of 85% from Game Ranking.
Yuri’s Revenge adding to Red Alert 2 new things: Allied units, Soviet units, Single player campaign, Multiplayer features, and Co-operative campaign’s where players can form teams.
Voice Line-up
Ray wise (President Dugan) and Barry Corbin (General Carville) IGN review mention about fantastic performances really helping the popularity of the game.
Neil Ross as Crazy Ivan (Allied campaign)
John Vernon as Tesla Trooper (Soviet campaign)
Soundtrack
Command & Conquer original composed by Frank Klepacki, who is an American musician. Born 25 may 1974, video game music composer and sound director best known for his work on the Command & Conquer series .He was joined to Westwood Studio as a composer when he was only 17.
The music for this video game is the most popular of the Command & Conquer series.
PC Gamer voted him for the best video game soundtrack of 1996
Intended Audience
Command & Conquer shouldn’t take an experienced player more than twenty hours.
*15+This means that the game is unsuitable for anyone younger than 15. It includes mature content, violence and swears words.
PEGI Rating (across Europe)*12 Suitable for gamer above the age of 12.
The intended target players are anyone in the age group 14 to 30 where there is most interest in this gaming. But it also attracts people who older And have an interest in history.
References:
http://ra2.od.ua/officialsite/arc10-2000.html
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LIE TO ME
Lie to me
ASSIGNEMENT
Media analysis of the first season of a television show “lie to me”
INTRODUCTION
Television reaches a large audience via mass communication.
CREDITS
Directors: Adam Davidson
Writers: Samuel Baum, Josh Singer
Main Actors: Tim Roth, Kelli Williams and Brendan Hines
Producer: Samuel Baum, Brian Grazer, and David Nevins
Studio: Fox
Location: Washington D.C.
Genre: Crime, Drama, and Mystery
Original Music: Doug DE Angelis, Robert Duncan
Years-2009
Narrative
The television show “Lie to Me” it’s follows Dr. Cal Lightman and his team of experts they specialty its reading body language this group cooperator with local and federal law enforcement and government agencies to investigate the truth beyond there lies.
Dr. Cal Lightman psychologist and expert in body language .He is status is divorced and has a teenage daughter, Emily Lightman.
Dr. Gillian Foster a partner in The Lightman Group her specialty its psychology.
Eli Loker and RIA Torres both of them have the skill to read people. They are co-workers with Dr. Cal Lightman and Dr. Gillian Foster all of them cooperate with Ben Reynolds an FBI agent that helping the Lightman group to discover the truth but through the force.
The Lightman group interview people to detecting deception, lines of question, provocative to get the best result for the case with out losing too much time.
Themes
The television show “lie to me” base on a real life scientific of Paul Ekman and his book “Telling Lies” the first thing that indicate for the book his Dr. Cal Ligtman and his background story start over as a result of guiltily over his mother suicide when her story was over experience agony.
Dr. Gillian Foster is based on Dr. Maureen O’Sullivan, a Professor of psychology
Dr. Paul Ekman and Dr. Maureen O’Sullivan both from the University of California at San Francisco.
Dr.Paul was intelligence agent during the Yugoslavia Wars in 1994 and Ira member.
The Main characters
Tim Roth as Dr. Lightman- psychologist expert in body language, micro expressions and the owner of The Lightman Group, has chemistry with
Kelli Williams as Dr. Gillian Foster- Professor of psychology, colleague in The Lightman Group and they are not to let their professional skill interfere with other workers personal live, Brendan Hines as Eli Loker, employee of the lightman group, academically educated and have his skill readying body language of people and then promote to vice president had a chemistry with
Dr. Lightman as a natural talent recognized Monica Raymond as RIA Torres, employee of The Lightman Group her emotions cloud her judgment. She doesn’t have any academic education like Eli Loker.
Hayley McFarland as Emily Lightman playing the teenage daughter of Dr. Cal Lightman who share custody with her mother on Emily Lightman .She is like any teenage girl experience a few relationship with different boys while Dr. Cal Lightman doesn’t like that kind of type of boys. Emily Lightman has a good relationship with her father.
She the first to notices the chemistry between Dr. Gillian foster and Dr .Cal Lightman.
Mekhi Phifer as Ben Reynolds- FBI agent who is support and assist the Lightman Group in their investigations with cases and people and with there personal story’s on the screen.
How: Lie to me come to gives us as a audience to be familiar with our body langue
About Paul Ekman
Paul Ekman received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Adelphi University (1958), after a one-year internship at the Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute. After two years as a Clinical Psychology Officer in the U.S. Army
His research on facial expression and body movement began in 1954, as the subject of his Master’s thesis in 1955 and his first publication in 1957.
Over the next decade, he is growing interest as an evolutionary research on emotion and its expression. Currently, he is the Manager of the Paul Ekman Group, LLC (PEG), and a small company that produces training devices relevant to emotional skills
How the Lightman Group spot lies is largely based on findings from my research. Because it is a drama not a documentary, Dr. Lightman is not as tentative about interpreting behavior as I am. Lies are uncovered more quickly and with more certainty than it happens in reality. But most of what you see is based on scientific evidence. Each show also provocatively raises the complex psychological and ethical issues involved in perpetrating and uncovering lies. [1]
LIE TO ME AS MASS MEDIA
“Mass media seek a broad audience for a typically narrow (and often biased) message that's typically embedded in entertainment or useful information/opinion.. The mass media have a slow news day problem. They have pages and time to fill..”[2]
TV reaches a large audience via mass communication.
Season 1 Episodes 13 Season premiere 21 January 21, 2009, Season finale 13 May, 2009
, #29#, Viewers (in millions) 11.06, Net work Fox
While Season 2, episodes 22 season premiere, 28 September 2009, Season finale 13 September 13,2010, Rank #57#, Viewers (in millions) 7.39,Network Fox.
Season 3, Episodes 13, Season premiere 4 October 2010, Season finale 31 January 2011, Rank #78#, Viewers (in millions) 6.71, Network Fox
The People's Choice Awards is an American awards show recognizing the people and the work of popular culture. The show has been held annually since 1975 and is voted on by the general public.
It airs on Global, on 2011 “lie to me” won Favorite TV Crime Drama and Dr. Cal Littman (Tim Roth) won Favorite TV Crime Fighter.
The series is broadcast on Global as well release to Dvd
Season 1 it really was, when it first appeared. It taught people how to read micro-expressions, comprehend body gestures and differentiate choice of words. In short, it taught people how to spot lies.
Or at least lured the audience into thinking so.
I think the trick is to present the unheard of skills and techniques to the audience and make them think that they are the ones that are actually benefiting from this show.
One fanatic of this show, one like me, can never get tired of the tricks. Personally, I spent lots of time trying to identify the gestures in people’s movements when I was watching Lie To Me season one. It’s simply addictive.
All of a sudden, one became an expert. And that feeling of knowing things really plays the mind tricks. It made one feel like god.
The first episode was particularly remarkable. For the first time in people’s lives, they “discovered” that there is actually science in being able to tell if people are lying. And that case full of money, well, that was the eye-catcher. You see, when “meaningless” and “easy” jobs come with large paychecks that are goanna appeal to normal human beings. People swiftly turn to the show and try to teach them, either to become better lie detector or to become better liars.
However, the show’s golden age ended as the first season finale was over.
Pic1: Dr. Cal Lightman at the office
Dr. Cal Lightman the photo demonstrate a man that focus on his work, we can see that Dr. cal lightman shrink his eyes to focus on better picture its indicate on tired.
The light is blue and signified for darkness
Next to Dr. Cal Lightman there is a screen the showing head and a few small picture on another important parts of the head
On the wall there’s television screen, “The LIGHTMAN GROUP” come to demonstrate power and money. The color of the font for the word “LIGHTMAN” its white, beside of it Dr. Cal Lightman position on the screen its in the middle.
Pic2: Dr. Cal Lightman with Dr. Gillian Foster
Dr. Cal Lightman position focusing on person that connects to the case.
Camera angle medium shot but from the back of shoulder, main focus on Dr. Cal the background a bit blur.
The Lights UN real as u can see both with UN natural shadow on their face.
The position between Dr. Cal Lightman and Dr. Gillian Foster shows for same side most of the shots of them together are not to far from each other.
There is employ in the back of the conversation that his eyes looking to them and he is focusing his hand are in the front its meaning for protecting him self.
Custom Dr. Cal wearing black showing on his mood in that episode.
Time.
EDITING
The television show “Lie to me” have 3 seasons. There is a few times of flashback sequences and a lot of transitions used and most of the television show there is cross cuts (two different scenes shown at the same time) usually its two cases for each two member usually its going by pair of Dr. Cal Lightman and Ria Torres
Dr. Gillian Foster and Eli Looker all of them works for The Lightman Group.
Most of the sound used to convey and set tone and mood for the audience
Reference
[1] http://neuronarrative.wordpress.com/2009/01/21/the-truth-about-lie-to-me/
[2] http://brainconnection.positscience.com/content/172_1
http://www.whosdatedwho.com/tpx_1097247/lie-to-me/crew
http://www.abcmedianet.com/web/dnr/dispDNR.aspx?id=082509_05
Images
First Picture : Dr. Cal Lightman at the office
Link: http://www.tv.com/shows/lie-to-me/photos/all/1
Seconde Picture: Dr. Cal Lightman with Dr. Gillian Foster
Link: http://www.tv.com/shows/lie-to-me/photos/all/17
Cast and Crew
Website: www.tv.com
Link: http://www.tv.com/shows/lie-to-me
Website: Imdb
Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1235099/plotsummary
The book “Telling Lies” by Paul Ekman
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