Wednesday 9 December 2015

Critical Investigation tutorial 25/11/15

Notes & Quotes document just over 2,500 – this doesn’t include Task #1 Textual Analysis but even so it’s looking a little short (plenty of others are at 4,000+). Hopefully this tutorial will give you academic texts to read and analyse which will beef up your N&Q document.

Textual analysis – some good points but I’m worried that there isn’t much detail aside from the trailer… and that will make it look like you didn’t bother to watch the film. I know this isn’t true but be aware of it. Go back to the original movies, choose a 1-2 minute sequence and analyse the hell out of it. Why is it like that? What does it tell the audience?

Academic books/journals definitely the weak point to your research. The bibliography is very short – obviously it is unfinished but needs to be 5-6 times longer to reach the top grades AND include proper academic sources. Hopefully the BFI trip will help with this.

Where is your Media Magazine research? Loads of references to Horror – you simply need to take the time to go through each one and read it/collect relevant quotes.

Why haven’t you looked at the books in DF07? There are loads of general film books that will ALL have big sections on horror. Again, without this you won’t get anywhere near the top grades. This will also help you get media theory into the essay.

Search the Guardian again – you’ve got some web research but again could do so much more.


Bibliography needs much more – keep going back to this as you read each new text, hopefully next time I see it you’ll have 30+ sources in there.

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