Presentation Feedback ..

Beyonce Ignite Presentation ..

WWW:

• Good topic - genuine media issue .
• Timing pretty good - not trying to squeeze too much in.
• Good points on stereotypes + representation of women. 
• imagine analysis works very well in the presentations.
• Excellent issue in terms of feminism + impact on audience (pressure on women etc).
• Moving from image analysis to lyrics work well. 
• Structure of presentation is pretty good. 

EBI: 

• Could link analysis to wider issues though (feminism representations of women etc.)
• Could bring in more media concepts/issues/theory - effects on audience. 

My presentations main focus was based on Beyonce's music video "Deja Vu", my Critical Investigation is based on how female artist portray themselves though their music videos. The research I did contributed to my presentation because it explained the point I was trying to get across. I looked at the main female artist Beyonce because she's a role model to many and she has some good examples that would help me explore my critical investigation further. I think the way I delivered my presentation could have been better, with more practice and preparation it would have been a clear and understandable presentation. However, I managed to start exploring my topic area. Towards the end of my presentation I mentioned that I would not only focus on Beyonce but also look at other popular female artist such as Nicki Minaj. My initial idea was to focus on how the Media represents women but then decided that looking at music videos and how important women (that have such a big impact of young girls lives) can portray themselves though their music videos. I now plan to develop the presentation into an extended academic essay by firstly mentioning how the women portray themselves, I want to show both the negative and positive side of how they can portray themselves and then I want to express the impact it has on women and young girls. Overall I think I've chosen a strong topic to write about, one that I myself is very passionate about (being a girl of course). 

Critical Investigation Examples ..

Representations of the police ..

During the course of Thursday’s lesson, each group has a question from past Critical Investigation’s to answer, my group and I had to focus on the question “Why is the representation of the police on television programs such as ‘Road Wars’ and ‘Police, Camera, action’ over-sensationalized?” First we discussed the reason, for example, it makes police officers seem powerful and successful with more status. We then looked at the stereotypical representations of the police on TV which were that they’re trust-worthy, never wrong, always right, helpful, well dressed and professional. Why might these representations exist? Well, firstly because they want people to feel safe , protected from danger making them seem powerful. Alternative representations of the police would be for example, criminals themselves and the main alternative, don’t protect people, aren't very helpful. The group then discussed what media concepts and theories could cover this particularly Critical Investigation, Start Hall with the concept of creating moral panic within the media and Mulvey with the concept of over exaggerating stereotypes and the media, again like Start Hall. Finally,  many different types of production pieces would work with this particular Critical Investigation such as a music video like Ill Manors, a documentary explaining the riots which was over exaggerated creating moral panic, a newspaper article again about the riots or a magazine article interviewing the police.