Critical Investigation Tutorial

• ·         Text and topic – potentially very good but currently the proposal doesn’t seem to have any clarity regarding the project and very few obvious links between the primary text and chosen media debate. My advice is to go over the proposal once more and draw much stronger links between the text and topic.
• ·         Part of this will involve changing the working title/question on your proposal – it needs to be less general and also include the primary text. Based on our discussion it is clear you DO know what you want to investigate but currently your proposal does not reflect this. What about explicitly addressing the question as we’ve just discussed it: What impact do explicit music videos such as ‘Famous’ by Kanye West have on audiences and should they be subject to media censorship or regulation?   
• ·         Angle/Hypothesis: currently these contradict one another. Angle is your perspective on this issue – I get the impression this is in favour of some kind of censorship or regulation. But your hypothesis seems to suggest censorship is a bad thing. Reflect on this and update!
• ·         Research: have a look at our new books and also the shelves in DF07 (Music Video and Politics of Representation for example). There should be lots online and also look at the collection of PDFs on the M: drive to do with film regulation and censorship (some should be relevant).
• ·         Linked production – this obviously needs more thought. A music video would be fine but make sure you want to do it! Alternatively, a Newsnight-style documentary report on censorship or regulating the internet could work. Watch this video both for the investigation side of things but also the documentary-style filmmaking – if you made a Newsnight-style report it would need to follow some of these conventions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USN0308Cu60&feature=youtu.be
• ·         Next steps: finish project proposal and start building a comprehensive notes and quotes document.
• ·         Post this to your blog with a brief plan for what you will work on in the next 10 days.