Research Essay Plan 2000 words

Paragraph 1: General Introduction (200-300)

• Current issues and debates on sexualizing women in media- Music industry
• Talk about the texts that will be analysed ( Anaconda-Nikki Manaj, Blurred Lines)
• State the Similarities and Differences between them (overview of the findings)
• Reference the Daily Telegraph article ( "Sexualised Music videos only teach women to sell out their body") 

Mini Essay 1 (Text 1) Anaconda Music Video
    

•      Paragraph 1 - Forms and Conventions

1. Analyse the music video
2. Talk about Mis-en-scene
3. Lyrics
4. Sound+ Editing

•     Paragraph 2 - Audience

1. How audience reacts to the video (passive, active, negotiate) ( Audience Theories will be applied) ( Evidence will be applied such as youtube comments)
2. Influence on teenage girls, children, adult women as well as men ( include data such as percentages)
 

• Paragraph 3- Institutions
  1.  How music production is made? EG white directors  (Nicki Minaj)
  2. Capitalism concept + theories
  3. Commercial
        4. In what ways has the text been influenced or shaped by the institution which produced it?  
   
  •  Paragraph 4- Representations

  1. How women are represented
  2. Why they are reoresented this way
  3.  Theories - Laura Mulvey( Male gaze), Binary Opposition 

   
   
  •   Mini Essay 2 Blurred Lines Music Video

         The process follows as the same structure but with different elements of the video such as the theories, concepts of the audience, representations, institutions as well as the forms and conventions like the mis-en-scene. I will be including evidence and quotations that were found from different  journals and books as well as articles.
   
   
  • Conclusion

  1. Evaluate my findings
  2. Answer the question