Undertake Primary Research:
- Audience reception eg questionnaires, focus groups, interviews
- Textual analysis and your own critical responses (to texts which could include films, children’s TV, pop videos, radio broadcasts, for example
Undertake Secondary Research:
- Text books, factual books, and other library resources, ie newspapers, magazines and video/ DVD/ TV resources
- Industry, academic and related internet sites
- Actual research studies in a similar field as your own
Discuss the different types of research you have undertaken on the following:
- Audience reception including your own views and analysis of texts
- Popular criticism (ie media reviews)
- Academic criticism (ie quotations from media theory/ text books)
- The institutions, industry or media producers
Provide analysis of:
- The investigative process
- The findings of your research
- Your argument or thesis, with reference to your research and textual evidence
- Conclusions reached at the end of your research
Remember: This project is preparation for a 2 hour exam, in which you will answer 2 questions. One will be about your methods of research, the other will require you to analyse your findings
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