Notes and quotes tutorial

Notes & Quotes document over 8,000 words – incredible! However, this has probably revealed that we need to change our research technique slightly and be more selective of the material that goes into the N&Q document. In fact, I’d go through what you’ve got so far and try to cut it down to just highly relevant, short quotes that may end up in your final essay. Entire interviews, for example, should be just there in one or two quotes rather than a huge block of text.

Textual analysis looking like a strength already but definitely need to add to complete Task #1. Go back to this today/tomorrow and be specific about the key scene/point in the video you are analysing and offer huge detail in terms of media language.

Brilliant to see so many secondary texts analysed too. For the next task (historical context) you may want to go back to one of those videos you’ve looked at already and go into more detail.

Academic books/journals is the key area to focus on now – only two currently. Look at our archive of journal articles on the M: drive – plenty of relevant stuff here (at least 6-7 PDFs for sure).

There are a couple of books on the shelf in DF07 regarding music video and gender representation – these will be critical texts for your research. One is Music video and politics of representation – look it up.

Widen your search away from music video and look at feminism and the representation of women more generally. This will create far more opportunities for academic book and journal research and media theory.

I’d keep looking for internet-based research – quite a few links so far, but this should be more like 20+ by the end of the process. The Guardian is a great starting point.

Task #1 – you’ve already done some textual analysis of your primary text but you definitely need to add more.

Task #2 – bibliography needs to be a priority over the next week but you have no concerns… if anything your problem will be too much research!

Copy this into a new blog post and write below your next three steps in your research.

 

1. Finish my textual analysis for Friday
2. Reduce the amount of research I have so that I only have the key points
3. Start my bibliography and find more academic books to research on