Critical Investigation proposa

The next step in our critical investigations is to develop our presentations into detailed academic proposals. You will be given a one-to-one tutorial to help you find the right angle and issue to concentrate on but first need to develop a blog post working through the following headings and tasks:

Working title

Include specific texts in the title and either 'how or 'why' or both, e.g.: To what extent and why are video games such as 'Call of Duty' and 'Grand Theft Auto’ becoming more violent?

Angle

E.g.: representation of action men & woman

Hypothesis

E.g.: about action movies...

Linked production piece

E.g.: an action movie 

MIGRAIN

Apply the Key Concepts to your texts/topic by using the questions from the Summer Research Project to help you. (Include at least five bullet point/key concept). Include as many media keywords as you can.

SHEP

Apply the Wider Contexts to your text/topic, including at least three bullet points on each one.

Issues/Debates

Select at least five and say how each relates to your study, using the Media A-Z to help you think about this:

• Representation and stereotyping
• Media effects
• Reality TV
• News Values
• Moral Panics
• Post 9/11 and the media
• Ownership and control
• Regulation and censorship
• Media technology and the digital revolution – changing technologies in the 21st century
• The effect of globalisation on the media

Theories

Select at least five and say how each relates to your study, using keywords/specific theorists' names from the Media A-Z:

• Semiotics
• Structuralism and post-structuralism
• Postmodernism and its critiques
• Gender and ethnicity
• Marxism and hegemony
• Liberal Pluralism
• Colonialism and Post-colonialism
• Audience theories
• Genre theories
• Contemporary Media Landscape

Explain how your study fits into this.

Research plan (media texts, academic texts and websites)

Media texts
What your main focus will be, E.g.:
-Transporter 

-Predator
Other media texts
(at least five related examples)

TV documentaries
Research videos online, e.g.:
BBC One - Panorama, 

Academic texts/books
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Internet Links
1. At least FIVE from Media Guardian or Guardian Culture or another newspaper website.
2. At least FIVE from university websites/academic papers online. Use Google Scholar as a starting point.
3. Any other relevant sites/articles - the more the better.

Use our archive of previous top-grade Critical Investigations to help you

Ignite Presentation Feedback.

Ignite Presentation Feedback.

• Interesting definition of "facts"! - but good question
• Nice delivery - but a bit too much reading from the powerpoint. use of humour very good for an ignite presentation
• Very interesting in the in the middle of this - this is what the audience want... is it? do we need to define the audience here?
• Atereotypes are accurate - but again the question of whether the audience ( or all audiences ) want this
• Good to see narrative theory - and very nicely applied to action movies
• Important : for your essay you need to research a filmto analyse in detail. predator would make a good historical text
• Q&A sparks good debate - in think you need an example that departs from these stereotypes. hunger games is worth discussing

Self Evaluation. 

WWW: 

• Delivered a good presentation to the audience. 
• Audience was engaged with the presentation and taking part
• Used relevant theories in the powerpoint

EBI:

• Should have not read from the powerpoint 
• Should have included target audience 
• Should have spoken a bit slower

For me to turn this ignite presentation into a critical investigation is to go and research a lot of other texts which are recent and historical. The texts must relate to gender in action movies.