Textual Analysis/Media Annotation
Assignment 1: Textual Analysis/Media Annotation
For this assignment, you will analyze a media “text”: a set of images, television show, radio program, film, video game, website, or physical installation, using the approaches discussed in class. Using Adobe Photoshop, translate the media text/object into 1-10 images that explicate its underlying codes, performances, and/or relationships. These images might have multiple frames in themselves, or it may have no frames at all. The critical approach that you have chosen should
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be clear in your images. In your presentation, you should reflect on the strategies you have used in creating your visual analysis and connect your work to the critical approaches and readings discussed in class.
Unit 1: Textual Analysis/Media Annotation
The goal of this unit is to introduce and clearly distinguish different methods of textual analysis. You will learn how to perform semiotics and discourse analysis, psychoanalysis, and narrative and genre analysis. For the assignment, each student (we will not be working in groups) will analyze a media “text”: a set of images, television show, radio program, film, video game, website, or physical installation, using the approaches discussed in class. Using Adobe Photoshop, translate the media text/object into 1-10 images that explicate its underlying codes, performances, and/or relationships. These images might have multiple frames in themselves, or it may have no frames at all. The critical approach that you have chosen should be clear in your images. In your presentation, the goal is to reflect on the strategies you have used in creating your visual analysis and connect your work to the critical approaches and readings discussed in class.
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Textual Analysis
A statement is expected to be sensible after and make one distinguish the context and the language within the text. The text to be discussed is “Football involves hard-hitting steps and can result to concussions, head injuries, and even permanent brain damage.” The media text is supposed to give a meaning and establish a connection with the reader. From a Semiotic and discourse point of view, the statement is grammatically correct and make a linguistic connection with the reader (Fairclough 11). The statement addresses an issue of concern to the football players and fans to make them understand some of the accidents associated with engaging in football.
The psychoanalysis context of the text indicates that it is impossible for one to comprehend the statement as it is. How...
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