MEST4 Coursework

Critical Investigation: Project proposal Working title Include your specific text in the title and either 'how or 'why' or both, e.g.: To what extent and why are video games such as 'Grand Theft Auto’ becoming more violent? To what extent do political hip hop music videos such as T.I - Warzone initiate the media debate of police brutality and has this helped to transform the social issue?  Angle How will you approach this question? E.g.: What impact are these increasingly violent games having on their audience? Is this simply a moral panic of the 21st century or is further regulation required? How effective would Warzone be to an audience in the 21st century? Does this music video exploit the idea of police brutality for income? Would this music video cause outrage to an audience of a different ethnicity? How accurately does this mirror events in police brutality? What is the overall representation on police brutality? Has the music video educated differ...

Ignite presentations: Learner response 1) Type up your feedback  in full  including the ratings out of five for each category.  Feedback:  Not on ignite presentation, not a good start, but, does follow presentation conventions and contains a solid introduction. Video content is extremely powerful in showing the recent cases of police brutality in USA. Switch T.I shows good structure and clear evidence of strong research. Refers to notes but confident presentation and delivery.  Such a great choice of text - but perhaps needed to make clear this is a focus on the music video as the primary text.  Themes and wider contexts very good - this then leads perfectly into Black Lives Matter.  Discussion of representation brings this into media territory with good use of terminology. More evidence of excellent research - incredible statistics on US police brutality. Bringing UK context into this is interesting but need more context.  ...