Structure of Final Paper Introduction • This is an introduction on what I’m goin

Structure of Final Paper
Introduction
• This is an introduction on what I’m going to write about.
• First sentence should grab your readers’ attention.
• It should be written last after you have done everything for your subheadings.
• Last sentence is your thesis statement, which is your main ‘argument’ of what the essay is going to be about.
 
Production
• For instance, a production company, the studio behind the film, the label company of an artist, etc.
• Who were the principal creative operatives in producing that media content?
• If you choose an episode from a TV show, who directed the episode?
• All the creative types who carried their baggage (track record) into the episode?
o What kind of creative background did they bring into that production?
• This is crucial to players, (people in the industry).
o Credits are determined by union contracts.
 
Distribution
• How the product gets somewhere?
• Exhibition – how the product makes a profit?
• Might be the shortest section of the paper.
• Might even find out some of the details of the distribution deal of the trade publications.
• Bring (compress) exhibition into distribution.
Interpretation (Stuart Hall uses the word “use,” we don’t care about that)
• Dominant reading, associative reading, etc.
• Who is using the media content? – viewers, audience.
• The audience interprets the content.
• Purpose of this paper is for you to interpret the meaning of the content.
• Hone your ability to critically analyze media content.
• Your head is your tool for observation.
• Your head must reflect some theoretical perspectives that you’re picking up from this course.
 
Social Reproduction
• For example, people posing alongside Rocky, products, merch, costumes, people posing on locations where movies, or TV shows were filmed, etc.
 
Close
• Give your audience closure.
• Explain to your reader once again what you’ve done
4-5 sources. The media content is self does not count as one.