...readers all over the world, nominating him the unofficial title of ―American Tolkien‖ [9]. In 2007 Martin agreed to collaborate with cable network HBO‘s writer-producers David Banioff and Daniel B. Weiss on the adaptation of his epic novel series to TV under the name Game of Thrones (GoT) [14]. Its narrative features the medieval fantasy world of Westeros, in which five noble families struggle to seize the all governing Iron Throne, and, with a complete broadcast of three seasons, the result has led TV critics to hail the show as one of the pinnacles of quality television narrative [21]. The show has also obtained an exceptionally broad and international fandom. The series has won numerous awards and nominations. It is the most recent big-budget media franchise to have contributed to the popularity of epic fantasy genre in mainstream TV. This essay will analyze the transmedia storytelling strategies applied to promote the TV series Game of Thrones. Transmedia storytelling is understood as a story told throughout numerous media platforms, with special content pointing back to the main narrative, working as a potential new audience entry-point. ―In which way transmedia storytelling is involved in Game of Thrones commercial success?‖ is the research question proposed. To answer this question, I intend to refer to the concepts of paratexts in relation to core text, as it is essential for transmedia storytelling. It is worth mentioning here...
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...include a comparative discussion of the main theme- and points of the two articles. “Game of Thrones” is a medieval fantasy TV-series that premiered on HBO back in 2011. It’s an adaption of the book-series “A Song of Ice and Fire” written by George R. R. Martin. Since it’s beginning it has gained a lot of attention, success and controversy all around the world. Its popularity has increased extremely throughout the years. The series has obtained a broad and active fan base, and many people became fans immediately after the first episode. From the start it quickly caused controversy due to its use of sexual explicit- and violent scenes. Some people claimed the show to be too dominated by men being the ‘strongest’ gender, and also the amount of explicit material. Claiming that it wasn’t really suitable nor appealing to women. Although the controversy, the series still received acclaim by critics and viewers. For this task I’ve dealt with two very different reviews. Reviewing the first episode of “Game of Thrones”, the two writers each has their own perception of the series and its content. First off we have a review from 2011 written by Ginia Bellafante. It’s called “A fantasy world of strange feuding kingdoms” , and was widely criticized back then. Her main point was that women only could watch a complex fantasy series, if it contained sexual explicit scenes like ‘Game of Thrones’. Sexual scenes should therefore be the only motivation for women to watch a fantasy series...
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...Game of Thrones is an American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. It is an adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire, George R. R. Martin's series of fantasy novels, the first of which is titled A Game of Thrones. It is filmed at Titanic Studios in Belfast and on location elsewhere in Northern Ireland, as well as in Croatia, Iceland, Malta, Morocco, Spain, Scotland, and the United States. The series premiered on HBO in the United States on April 17, 2011, and its sixth season concluded on June 26, 2016. The series was renewed for a seventh season, which is scheduled to air in 2017 with a total of seven episodes.[5][6] The series is set on the fictional continents of Westeros and Essos and interweaves several plot lines with a large ensemble cast. The first narrative arc follows a dynastic conflict among competing claimants for succession to the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, with other noble families fighting for independence from it; the second covers the attempts to reclaim the throne by the exiled last scion of the realm's deposed ruling dynasty; the third chronicles the rising threat of the impending winter and the legendary creatures and fierce peoples of the North. Game of Thrones has attracted record numbers of viewers on HBO and attained an exceptionally broad and active international fan base. It has received widespread acclaim by critics, particularly for its acting, complex characters, story, scope, and production values,...
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...In several instance throughout history, women are often subjected to objectification, as well as learning a proper women’s duty. This is demonstrated numerous times throughout different time periods, especially during the fifteenth century. Similar to the medieval age’s history, Game of Thrones has shown multiple instances where women are merely seen as a way to suit a man’s needs, and to be seen and not heard. Overall, Game of Thrones shows striking similarities to the fifteenth century in regards to how women were treated. To begin with, women were typical seen as incompetent during the middle ages. Many were not allowed to occupy powerful ranking jobs, which required a higher education, and often many women were denied. If offered a job,...
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...Mara Barron Introduction The first time I watched HBO’s Game of Thrones I was enthralled, but scared. My parents were wholly unaware of me because I would sit halfway down the stairwell to look at my grandmother’s faded painting. The painting was so lightly colored, that I could watch the TV through its reflection. So, I would sit there and watched as dead zombie-like bodies tried to rip the living to shreds, a platinum-blonde-haired woman burn her enemies alive, and seemingly everyone else get butchered. I loved watching Game of Thrones even though I found its violence, nudity, and coarse language terrifying. I kept watching the show until I was caught watching the episode, “The Red Wedding.” That night, my mother was going to my room to tuck me in for the night, but instead found me clutching the stairwell railing. I was immersed in the violence massacre scene when I felt her presences and quickly fled the scene. She came into my room and told me sternly, “that show is too “adult” for you,” and kissed me good night. But as I lay there, I couldn’t help but want to know more. Now, I am an adult and I want to revisit the episode. Game of Thrones came out in 2011, has five seasons, been nominated for multiple Emmy awards and won, and its sixth season will be released sometime in 2016 due the massive amount of fan requests. Its franchise is so large, that a quick google search or search on the AU databases reveals that millions of people are offering their scholarly...
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...can be displayed in many different ways. Though this is a difficult question to answer when looking at writer’s text, it is an even tougher question to apply to your own writing. So what is good writing? Good writing can be defined as well put together, organized, a piece of text that is fully developed, but it all depends on the quality this text has, I think good writing breaks expectations. By breaking expectation I mean, as writer you should be able to create tension, violate the genre, and create something that has never been seen before in your text. Game of Thrones is an excellent example of how good writing breaks expectations. The writer begins his series in Westeros, which is the land of the Seven Kingdoms. In this universe, there is only two seasons that can last for years, either summer bounty or winter hardship. Realistically there are four seasons, and each season last three months. In the Game of Thrones world there this is not the case. As you read the books you come to realize these seasons do not last three months, or four, or five. They last years. This makes the reader think about if the writer was imagining a different world, or if the people back then only thought there was two seasons. As well as the reader it makes me imagine if there could possibly be only two seasons because after all fall and winter are similar as too spring and summer. I feel like his writing creates dimension to me as reader making me imagine all these things that may or may not...
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...Academic Research and Communication Skills (ARCS) “What are the good effects of Piracy in the entertainment buisness?” Candidate Name: Sumeth Madan Candidate Number: 1156FAGD011 Session: 2012-2015 Subject: ARCS Word Count : 4538 Supervisor: Hans Kirkels Draft – Final 19th June 2013 | Abstract: Background - Piracy in the Internet is defined as the evil force that is destroying the entertainment industry. This blame has been put on since the invention of the Internet and its file sharing ability. It has recently been observed that a significant number of reasons can help in proving that piracy does have a good effect on the society. Result – Distributing the three major entertainment industries such as the music industry, gaming industry and the Movie production industry the research helps in proving the question about why is piracy good to the society. Piracy is not only the back bone of the entertainment business but is also the backbone of the internet as by doing critical analysis we find that it even protects us from the government. Conclusions - A theoretical analysis, backed up by observation and intense reading and understanding of how the Internet and the piracy works we can conclude that the piracy has had good effects on the entertainment industry. Table of Contents Abstract……………………………………………………………………… 2 ...
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...(DotA) is an action real-time strategy mod for the video game Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos and its expansion, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, based on the "Aeon of Strife" map for StarCraft. The objective of the scenario is for each team to destroy the opponents' Ancients, heavily guarded structures at opposing corners of the map. Players use powerful units known as heroes, and are assisted by allied heroes and AI-controlled fighters. As in role-playing games, players level up their heroes and use gold to buy equipment during the mission. The scenario was developed with the "World Editor" of Reign of Chaos, and was updated upon the release of its expansion, The Frozen Throne. There have been many variations of the original concept; the most popular being DotA Allstars, which eventually was simplified to DotA with the release of version 6.68. This specific scenario has been maintained by several authors during development, the latest of whom being the anonymous developer known as "IceFrog" developing the game since 2005. Since its original release, DotA has become a feature at several worldwide tournaments, including Blizzard Entertainment's BlizzCon and the Asian World Cyber Games, as well as the Cyberathlete Amateur and CyberEvolution leagues; in a 2008 article of video game industry website Gamasutra, the article's author claimed that "DotA is likely the most popular and most-discussed free, non-supported game mod in the world". Valve Corporation is currently developing...
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...real-time online or LAN strategy computer game composing of two to ten or twelve players where you can choose from over ninety unique characters you can play on. It requires focus, strategy, quick hands and quick thinking when you are in difficult situations. The objective of the scenario is to destroy the opponents' "Ancient". The two teams' ancients are heavily guarded structures at opposing corners of the map. The game is popular in many parts of the world; in the Philippines and Thailand. It is also one of the most well-known computer games being played in Sweden and other Northern European countries. By these reasons, the popularity of this game has increased over time not only with these countries being mentioned but it has been getting more popular all over the world. As DotA arises, many issues also arise. It may be about on relationships, peers, foes, and most especially, education. Many critics worldwide are arguing about the real effects of playing DotA considering that many people especially teenagers are getting addicted on this computer game. They said, this is a mind numbing entertainment for everyone and produces a socially isolated people and promotes violent behaviors. Some of these criticisms may or may not be true. In the Philippines, DotA is being played not only by teenager but also by the kids that made this as a big concern for parents. At their young age they are more prone on getting addicted on playing this game and might get out of focus to their studies...
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...From there I found a lot of music that help me pick music from this scene. The third section was a very fast part, which was the tension after the yelling. I wanted something that was very soft, so I found a string part from the Game of Thrones. Which lead to the fourth section, in this part of the scene Clarissa notices all the medicine on the ground when he is talking, and he tries to persuade him to come with her. I wasn’t sure what music to use for this scene, until I found a piece from Game of Thrones, which has a harp melody, which is very unique. The harp slowly decreasing, the harp sound, in my opinion helped express the different kinds of medicine like the type of notes used in the hard, but I also used to express the persuasion of Clarissa to Richard. The second to last section, was when Richard express loss of hope, for this part I choose orchestral music with a very gentle but sad melody to express Richard state of emotion of loss of hope but also to express Clarissa feeling sorry for him. I really like the way I grabbed the sad melody when Clarissa shows sadness right after he tells her “not...
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...the Audience of peers would understand. We first ventured to find a current time and place to transport the story into. The idea of a setting it in a Game of Thrones realm was decided upon after two of the actors discussed the leaked episodes. The ancient form also translated easily and the language was intended to remain formal. First we edited the script down to its fundamental lines and ideas. We then changed the names and places to those which were in Game of Thrones. Three of the five actors had never seen the show before, which made it difficult to create an accurate representation. We did a cold read of the piece, almost all of the names and places were read incorrectly, which made us laugh hysterically. With our phones in our hands reading the script, we then presented it for review. The performance was painfully bad, but humorously so. It was then that we decided to change from a post structuralism miss reading to a Post Modern piece. Given the lack of dedication from most of the group, we didn’t want to risk doing a subpar performance where it seemed as though we were putting in effort. It was better to be bad on purpose than bad because it was unprepared. The new aim was to make fun of our assignment, our drama students and ourselves. We achieved this by reading our lines off our phones. The performance now called ‘Game of Phones;’ and we used many of the mistakes we originally made in the finally performance. We added in a beginning monologue in which we pretended...
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...Theologies in A Song of Ice and Fire For my final paper, I will discuss a few of the religions in A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin. I will describe and show how these fictional religions compare to factual ones. I will mainly focus on how it relates to Christianity and its various forms, but I will also include other religions in smaller detail. Before I dive right into the religions, I will give a brief description of A Song of Ice and Fire and why Martin, a lapsed Catholic and proclaimed atheist, decided to include such a large amount of religion in the series. The tale takes place in the fictional realms of Westeros, Essos, and Sothoryos. In these fictional realms, power and religion sits above all else. Westeros, also known as the Seven Kingdoms, is the main continent described in the series. The land of Westeros became a “melting pot” for religions after Aegon the Conqueror succeeded in capturing all of Westeros. Before this conquest, there were multiple kingdoms, all practicing their own religions. The unification of countries created much adversity as some religions faded away while others became universal. The series focuses on a set of main characters and how they rise and fall from power. Martin uses religion in the book to create a sense of realism. Due to how prominent of a role religion played in our medieval history, the inclusion of religion in the series adds depth and extra diversity. His reasoning for this is The Crusades. The Crusades shaped...
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...and TV shows without permission or payment in Australia. Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman in Doctor Who, which is freely available and delivered at the same time globally, but still 13,000 Australians tried to access before its release. Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman in Doctor Who, which is freely available and delivered at the same time globally, but still 13,000 Australians tried to access before its release. It may not be ethical and downloaders might be sued for copyright infringement, but there are no laws that criminalise Australians downloading and watching content for their own individual use. "It's not illegal," Electronic Frontiers Alliance executive officer Jon Lawrence told Fairfax Media. "Downloading something like Game of Thrones without paying for it is a breach of copyright but if you're not doing it on a commercial scale, it's simply a civil issue and it's the copyright owner's problem if they want to come after you." Words such as "stolen" and "theft" are often bandied about in movie torrenting conversations. At the Village Roadshow annual general meeting in August this year, chairman Robert Kirby labelled it exactly that. "Plain and simple, it is theft. No one would go into a bookstore and walk out with books under their arm. The Australian government has indicated strong support for introducing legislation, which we anticipate will be in the next few months," Mr Kirby said. While few would celebrate depriving content creators of income, Mr Kirby's classification...
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...inspiration for my response, which involved eurocentrism in The Hobbit and Game of Thrones, I thought a lot about my Anthropology class which covered eurocentrism throughout history. Upon deeper inspection, the two had a lot in common, and after writing the rest of my responses, I found this to be my best idea. The second part of the prompt asked which secondary source I caught my attention the most. Thinking all the way back to the first quarter, the source that stood out the most to me was Kroeber’s Science Fiction vs Fantasy, because it helped me distinguish the genres apart from each other better than I had initially. For this section, I wrote a lot about the misconception categorizing the Star Wars franchise as a Science Fiction instead of a High Fantasy. I felt really passionate about this topic as I had read several interviews in the past from the people working on the films explaining this point and understood the concept very well. However, I did not think this would be a good topic for my RA as it diverged from the class’ focus around The Hobbit and Game of Thrones. Lastly, I addressed the section of the prompt asking about which meanings and cultural/historical examinations High Fantasy addresses. To answer this, I talked how monarchies both in Game of Thrones and history ultimately lead to conflict and betrayal. I felt this was a good topic, however, my knowledge surrounding the Game of Thrones series is subpar compared to my knowledge of The Hobbit and The Lord of the...
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