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quiet_tiger) wrote2005-10-03 10:04 pm
quiet_tiger) wrote2005-10-03 10:04 pm
Media Theory paper
So, my paper assignment is to analyze the hell out of a television show or movie.
And when I say analyze the hell, I mean nitpick every possible creative choice, from camera angles to costumes to whatever else I see. The semiotics of the thing, including the use of words I don't know the meaning of.
Which, frankly, will suck royally.
I am a wordsmith, no?
I'm just a little torn as to what I should use. While I do have a plethora of episodes of various TV shows on tape, from Smallville to Jackass to House to an entire 8 hour tape's worth of The Batman, I think a DVD would be easier to manage. Which limits me to Smallville Season 1, Nip/Tuck Season 1, the series of Greg the Bunny, and Seasons 1 and 2 of Wildboyz.
Then, there's the question of Drama versius Sitcom. A drama (even Smallville ;)) has more depth than a sitcom about a rabbit puppet (if you haven't ever seen Greg the Bunny, I recommend it, if only for the Seth Green).
Then again, a movie would let me have more material, and generally I'm way more familiar with some of my movies than my TV shows because I've seen the movies a dozen times or more, while TV shows I've seen less. And with some movies, I've already done analysis of, including Bram Stoker's Dracula, From Dusk Till Dawn, and a couple of others. Actually I was considering doing it on Sorority Boys because a) it's a fun movie, b) it's not too long, and c) I've already done informal analysis of it on the IMDB and I've thought about the damn movie a lot.
But I can watch a sitcom way more times than a movie, or even a drama, so it'd be easier in that sense to use a sitcom. But my professor said that if the paper is only ten pages, it isn't long enough, and a sitcom might not give me enough unless I totally bullshit it, which I'd rather not do. But, with Smallville, I feel that I've read so much about it online already that a lot of things won't be an original idea. And say I use the Pilot. Could I really include the slashy content of the eyefucking and the Kiss of Life?
So, I'm leaning towards Sorority Boys, even though a TV show would be easier.
Any thoughts?
And when I say analyze the hell, I mean nitpick every possible creative choice, from camera angles to costumes to whatever else I see. The semiotics of the thing, including the use of words I don't know the meaning of.
Which, frankly, will suck royally.
I am a wordsmith, no?
I'm just a little torn as to what I should use. While I do have a plethora of episodes of various TV shows on tape, from Smallville to Jackass to House to an entire 8 hour tape's worth of The Batman, I think a DVD would be easier to manage. Which limits me to Smallville Season 1, Nip/Tuck Season 1, the series of Greg the Bunny, and Seasons 1 and 2 of Wildboyz.
Then, there's the question of Drama versius Sitcom. A drama (even Smallville ;)) has more depth than a sitcom about a rabbit puppet (if you haven't ever seen Greg the Bunny, I recommend it, if only for the Seth Green).
Then again, a movie would let me have more material, and generally I'm way more familiar with some of my movies than my TV shows because I've seen the movies a dozen times or more, while TV shows I've seen less. And with some movies, I've already done analysis of, including Bram Stoker's Dracula, From Dusk Till Dawn, and a couple of others. Actually I was considering doing it on Sorority Boys because a) it's a fun movie, b) it's not too long, and c) I've already done informal analysis of it on the IMDB and I've thought about the damn movie a lot.
But I can watch a sitcom way more times than a movie, or even a drama, so it'd be easier in that sense to use a sitcom. But my professor said that if the paper is only ten pages, it isn't long enough, and a sitcom might not give me enough unless I totally bullshit it, which I'd rather not do. But, with Smallville, I feel that I've read so much about it online already that a lot of things won't be an original idea. And say I use the Pilot. Could I really include the slashy content of the eyefucking and the Kiss of Life?
So, I'm leaning towards Sorority Boys, even though a TV show would be easier.
Any thoughts?