Ellie (Last of us)
The character Ellie is in the video game called 'Last of us'. The Last Of Us is a action-adventure survival horror video game developed by a company called Naughty Dog and published by Sony PlayStation. In the game you control in male in the picture above named Joel who is a smuggler which is tasked with a important job of transporting this teen aged girl named Ellie across a post-apocalyptic United States. The game is played from a third-person perspective and for most of the story you control Joel and Ellie and other companions are controlled by the artificial intelligence but when you have progressed through the story a bit and get to the winter section, then you will control the character Ellie for the whole winter section of the story. The players can use long range weapons such as rifles as you can see in the picture above, shotguns or even bows and at shorter range the player can use handguns and short barreled shotguns and melee weapons such as baseball bats and lead pipes.
The character Ellie is a teen aged girl who got put with Joel not really by choice but she needs to be transported because she has the potential to create a cure for the apocalyptic infection as she is immune to it and in the winter section she has to take care of Joel like a mother because he is really ill, so you control Ellie to go and collect resources to help such as food, wood for a fire and blankets so they don't get cold and freeze to death.
Most of the other characters in the game are not really friendly as all people in movies that have been made of a post-apocalyptic world is everyone for themselves, so most of the other characters want to kill Ellie and Joel. So there aren't that many friendly characters but there is a few.
Ellie is represented as a strong independent young girl with the passion to do good by reaching this safe place to create a cure and protect people, this can be shown in the picture of her above with the gun because the gun represents that she is looking out and protecting something and that she has a responsibility because who would trust a young child with a gun and this suggests that she is mature. Her facial expressions mostly throughout the game are depressed and upset expressions because she is scared and doesn't want hurt anybody but she will if she has to. The sound effects in the game are mostly old and rickety sounding as most of the areas have been overthrown by the infected and people are afraid to get infected.
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Also the franchise is so loved by the community, when Naughty Dog and Sony PlayStation revealed that there was going to be a second game, everyone was so thrilled.
WWW: This is a much better response Tristan, you unpick the representation with much more detail and use of evidence. You provide good background about the franchise and the game to support your comments.
ReplyDeleteEBI: Make more use of terminology: mise-en-scene, denotation, connotation, costume, props, facial expression, locations/ setting, lighting, character, narrative etc.
Thank you and I will use more subject terminology in the future.
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