Cherry Sudartono LIB200 Topic Sentence

Research Question: How does the “First-Person View” in Halo 3, a multiplayer online first-person view shooter video games, affect a player psychologically?

  1. What is a first-person view?
  2. Literature (First-person narrative/interpretation)

i. “First-person narrative is a literary technique in which the story is narrated by one character, who explicitly refers to him or herself in the first person, that is, using words and phrases involving "I" and "we".” (Wikipedia, First-person narrative)

ii. Famous books that includes FPV (first person view): The Adventure of Huckleberry and Finn by Mark Twain, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Different – in a sense of Who is the narrator.

b.  Usage in movies/motion pictures (Cinematography)

i.  How and when is it used? What camera angle?

ii.  Example of movies? Doom? Titanic?

iii.  First Person Narrative in movies? Morgan Freeman in The Shawshank Redemption, Edward Norton in Fight Club

c.  Adaptation to Games

i.  First-person Shooter – History? What is the first one? Bungie’s Marathon?

ii.  What do we “see”? Typically – life bar, radar/map, “your” hands, holding weapons etc.

iii.  Difference with “third-person”. The different angles of third-person.

2.  What is Halo 3?

a.  Synopsis

i.  Survival of Earth from alien invasion – The Covenant

ii.  Halo – The Flood

iii.  Last Hope (Hero) Master Chief and Arbiter

b.  Characters Main – Master Chief Petty Officer John-117, The Arbiter, Cortana (A.I), Catherine Halsey, Miranda Keyes, Sergeant Johnson.

c.  Developer – Bungie

i.  When is it established?

ii.  History in gaming? (need to look for more sources!)

d.  Advertising

i.  Believe

ii.  The John-117 Monument / The Museum of Humanity

3.  Task lists for videos:

a.  Create an “avatar” or in Halo 3, your own Spartan/Elite

b.  Interview Players:

i.  Kalidozo BX 7

ii.  ImB0red

iii.  LuNarFox2501

iv.  Jackazz

v.  AverageJoe24

vi.  Azn GrL

vii.  Gteck

c.  Interview Questions

i.  Do you feel connected to your avatar? In what ways? Why do you make him/her the way it is? Explain as much as you can.

ii.  How do you think, being “the person” who fires the shot, throws a grenade, kill another player, affects you as a person in RL and in the game itself?

iii.  When you’re playing with your teammates, do you feel connected with them? Would you go as far to say that you have a “band of brotherhood” like connection to your teammates as how people in the military would?

iv.  When other people say taunts to you, do you feel that they’re insulting your pride in RL? And not who you are in the game?

v.  When you are killed by other players, have you ever feel so angry that you wish that you know this person in RL so that you can hurt this person physically?

vi.  In the end? Does the line that separates RL and Halo 3 exist? When and where does it starts and ends?