This is really for the benefit of myself rather than you guys. Feel free to read if you want to.
Today started off quite badly, for one thing I have had only 3 hours sleep to which I am feeling the effects of- and I missed the seminar this morning because I thought it was the week where we have tuesdays off- dont think I was the only one. And it was an important one to as it was to do with our presentations- fortunately for me we had arranged to meet up before had so I was able to catch up.
Basically today we officially assigned our positions for each aspect and segment of the Cultural Circuit Approach.
Sam is doing Representation, Cassie is doing Regulation, Caz is doing Production, Tim is doing Identities and I am doing Consumption. I think everyone is quite happy with their area.
We have decided to look at the case study; The Exorcist the original from the late 70's (?) or 80's (?) because we feel it has lots of interest and lots to talk about.
Our aim is to have the presentation ready by the 9th of December giving us time to practice during the last week (unfortunately I have a wedding to go to so I ill be leaving either the 15th or 16th.)
Or goal by next Tuesday (30th November) is to of at least watched the film once or twice, find and read a few books on it and make some notes on our chosen area. We can't afford to make too many because we only have 2 minutes each to talk about each area giving us a total of 10 minute presentation! So important or unusual facts could be a nice intro or useful information.
We have come to some sort of question we wish to base our research upon; "How representations of Religion affected the film's consumptions and identities." How-ever from a scriptwriters point of view we are not sure whether it has to be related to scriptwriting or whether it can be a broad question. Shall have to ask.
Anyways so that was pretty much it; we do have a slight problem, one of our team mates might not be around for the 3 and a half weeks we have for the presentation; so we will have to work around this.
So main goals for this week; watch film, make notes on consumption (which is a nice area as consumption from then and now is completely different.), note down quotes, find exorcist book.
Scriptwriting Social tomorow don't forget guys!
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