Adaptation of “Never Seek to tell thy Love”!

15Mar07

My Adaptation of the poem is as follows. I’m am going to adapt the poem into a game or interactive narrative. The game starts with a male character loosing the love of his life. After this event the male character meets a stranger who says he can help him regain his girlfriends love. As a result of this the character must undertake a number of challenges, puzzles and conflicts in order to prove and regain the trust and love of his love. The stranger character that the male meets a the beginning of the narrative Acts as a wise guide and aid to the male (like a yoda figure), and offers advice during the many challengers the main character has to complete.

The main character of the game must complete challenges, defeat enemies and solve puzzles on his way to regain his love. Challenges may include fighting of foes who are trying to steal or harm his love, as well as solving puzzles like identifying the location of his lost love.

Narrative of Game in more detail: The name of the hero of the character of the game is “James” who has just returned from the marines when he scares of the love of his life “Rachael”, who runs away to an unknown location. After Rachael runs away, James meets “Quentin” a dark stranger of whom he relectantly enlists the help and advice of. Quentin informs James of ways in which he can save the love of his life: Rachael! From thereon, both James and Quentin set out on a quest to find Rachael and on the way over coming a number of different challenges and adversaries.

My Game idea in more detail: The style of the game is very much a puzzle (problem solving game) aimed at a target audience of 16 – 24 year olds. The game would be appealing however primarily to a female audience as the romantic narrative would appeal more so to an adolecent female late teen.

The style of the game would be similar to ‘Prince of Persia’ (pictured below) however without the action and violent aspect however the puzzle aspects of this game would be very similar. Rather than the common main stream computer games, this paticular adaptation would be firmly based around the narrative as apposed to the game play aspects.

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Interpretation of ‘Never Seek to Tell Thy Love’.

05Mar07

My interpretation of William Blake’s ‘Never Seek to Tell Thy Love’, is: that the male character of the poem has expressed his love for a female friend or companion and poured his heart out to her, however the female character doesnt share the same feelings for the male character and leaves as a result of of the male expressing his love and fondness for her.

In the final paragraph of the poem; the male character is left alone, and another female approaches the male and he takes her reluctantly as a fall back from the previous female who was the love of his life. ‘He took her with a sigh’ shows that the male has lost his one love and settles for someone else.

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Masculinity Under threat?

20Jan07

In modern day, masculinity in the media can be seen to be under threat. I believe that there are many examples of media texts that show this.

The traditional convetion of having a males playing the hero in films and television programmes had completely gone out the window. There are more and more examples of women dominating and overpowering men in the media. Well known examlpes of this are Lara Croft in Tomb Raider, in which Angelina Jolie is the main heroine of the movie and throughout she is seen overpowering, dominating and talking down to the male characters of the movie.

Films in which women are the main dominate characters of the film arent the only example in the media in which masculinity is seen to be under threat. Up to very recently males only males have been directors of films and movies, and it has only been males that have been recognised by audiences and there peers as being directors. But recently females directors such as Sophia Coppola have made a mark for women on the industry.

The whole theory of masculity and the idea of ‘the males dominant grip’ on the media industry is fast becoming history.

Although the idea of a male dominace is diminishing, mens strong foothold in the industry is still very much alive. Men and women in society have almost reached an equality, however the idea of ‘masculinity being under threat’ is unprofound.

There is however a growing amount of medias in both the movie and television industries in which women have the dominant role and reverse the conventions of previous years. Sex and the City is a good example of this is which the main characters of the TV show are women, and the conventions of the show see the women exploiting and using men as sex objects.  This is a good example of how the media industry has change and that there is a greater equality between males and females in media.

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Gender and Identity

08Dec06

Whilest growing up there were many different moments in life which influence and determnined my opinion on gender and sexuality not only just inthe media but also in society. My opinion on gender and its place in society was probably mostly influenced whilest I was at primary school. I attended a small, middle class, somerset village church school. One of the main things I remember from that school was that students were always dropped of and picked up from school by there mothers. On the rare occaision that a childs father did appear at school he was always dressed in a suit, and looked like he was either cumin or going to ‘the office’ to work.

The impreesion this made on me at a very young age was that it was the womens job to drop the kids of at school and attend to the house work etc, whereas the fathers role within the family was to be the primary bread winner.

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Assignment Handed-in….Yea!

10Nov06

I have just handed in the nightmare PHP assignment! A day ahead of deadline in fact! I actually had the majority of the project finished in time for the initial deadline and week before.

I actually kicked up a right stinker about the course leaders giving us a weeks extension on the hand-in date, as i was almost finished and a large amount of the course were no way near finishing. So my argument was ‘why do they get let of the hook because there not finished, when I had worked really hard to almost finish my project!

 However I am really happy that iv hande in the assignment now! And against all the odds, the website works properly which is always an added bonus! I reckon ill get an average mark for the project tho! Because I always make the mistake of lookin at other peoples sites and thinkin ‘thats so much better than mine!’. But I think ill get the 40% needed to pass at least, which is the main thing! Tho I did put all my efforts into the site, so I feel proud of my work!

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First Post

10Nov06

This is my first post on this blog, and to be quite honest its something I would usually waste my time with. But as I have to have an online progressing blog in order to pass my university degree…… here I am!!! 

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PHP Project

10Nov06

I finding the current assignment to be really frustrating! Im in uni everyday and i dont seem to be getting anywhere at all. Im working my ass off for at least 5hours a day in front of a computer and the the problems always seem to out weigh the positive aspects of my project. Matt the instructer is also spread to thin, as he has to help virtually everyone on the course so help is few and far between! I really feel like im working really hard and yet getting nowhere! But hey! What am I guna do? Apart from continue to work my arse off!

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