Critical investigation tutorial 09/11/16

• ·         Notes & Quotes document easily over 2,000 – you’ve met the first deadline BUT there are huge blocks cut and pasted from websites and this is in danger of ‘hiding’ a lack of research sources. Web research is absolutely fine and I’m delighted to see you’ve highlighted key sentences and quotes that you may use but realistically those highlighted bits should be the only text copied over to your N&Q document.
• ·         Research currently is 100% web. This is not a problem yet but needs to start developing soon if you want a higher grade at the end of it. Task #1 is textual analysis but as you haven’t confirmed your primary text this will be difficult. Taken with your research I’m a little concerned about the project as a whole.
• ·         Nothing from Media Mag, Jump Cut etc. which is a big miss currently. There must be loads of potentially useful articles across these sources and currently you don’t seem to have checked or added anything to your research plan. This really needs to change quickly.
• ·         Academic books/journals are the focus for Task #2. Use Google Scholar and the BFI trip to develop this area but there’s loads you can do before you even get to that. Look at the PDF journal articles on the system (M: drive > Resources > A Level > Critical investigation research). There’s loads on music video and race – easily enough to get you up to 4,500 words before you’ve even gone to the books. Let’s cover the books at a future tutorial because there’s already a huge amount for you to do based on Media Magazine, eJump Cut, Google Scholar, our PDFs and so on.
• ·         Task #2 – this needs to be your priority as your research is only web-based at the moment. We have time to put this right but it really does need to start now. For Task #1, you can’t do a textual analysis of a music video you haven’t chosen so that also needs to be an urgent priority.
• ·         LR: Copy this into a new blog post called ‘Critical Investigation tutorial’ and write the next three steps in your research below my feedback.