DSDN101 - The Clip - Storyboard as standpoint

Technology through gaming has developed an extreme amount in the last decade alone to create more realistic gameplay and graphics. These developments make the game appear life-like and easily relatable, which can manipulate the newer generations’ actions.

            Games with realistic appearances such as Grand Theft Auto have been attacked countless times by parents and news reporters, stating that the games contribute to aggressive actions and extreme violence such as 18-year-old Devin Moore’s “cold-blooded shooting spree” (Morales, T 2009). The violence in games contributes and greatly affects the newer generations’ actions.

Grand Theft Auto Screenshot

            Furthermore, cheating in games is a frequent occurrence that is seen. The newer generation chooses to take the easy way out by putting in codes that affect the game greatly, making it simple to complete. Such codes, no existing in the real world, affect the choices and outcome of the new generation.

            The standpoint taken is to use a new way of seeing the world to create a life in a game that is as real as normal life. But the drawback to this is the gaming world taking over the lives and minds of young generations. By twisting the appearance of basic games, the character can interact with the life and coin bars, changing them however they like by ‘cheating’ and adding aspects that make the game itself unrealistic and falsified.

          By removing the factor of violence from the stop-motion, the outcome results in a cheerful game that is a lot more similar to older games such as Mario or Donkey Kong (These games still had a minimal amount of violence. A person would destroy a bomb or a mushroom etc. which removed the realism). Therefore, by having an 8-bit appearance, the stop motion can relate to games older generations played also. 

Morales, T. (2009) Grand Theft Auto Under Attack. CBS News, CBS Interactive Inc. retrieved from: http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-500172_162-708794.html

Arnold, D. (2011) Violent Media and Aggression. David Arnold's AmSt 475 blog retrieved from: http://dtarnold.wordpress.com/2011/03/03/violent-media-and-aggression/