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Dissertation is submitted!!

Inspired by The Virgin Suicides opening, I created this for my cover page. My dissertation tutor said be creative!

Second Draft Completed

FINALLY got through it all again. This time I have an appendices and all my primary research in the main body of text. I just need to spend a couple of days proof reading, making my front cover and hopefully cutting down my word count and then I shall be done!

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Received a reply to my email from Geoff King (Author of Lost in Translation) and it has done wonders for my primary research as he speaks a lot about independent auteurship.

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Group Study Completed!

Group study went really well and there were some great comments made about both areas I was looking at. There was even a quote said that matches with one of my secondary research points which I nearly danced about when I figured it out! I'm going to write it all up tonight and start putting it into my dissertation one day this week, when I finally get round to doing it (other units are taking up all my time recently)

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Group Study

Conducting my group study tomorrow with six students from film production courses around London. I've managed to get 3 females and 3 males and the median age is looking around 23 which is alright for students. I've decided to play three clips that I use thoroughly in my second chapter. The introduction to The Virgin Suicides, the scene in Marie Antoinette where Antoinette breaks the fourth wall and the introduction to Lost in Translation.

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Primary Research

After handing in my formative I had a chat with my dissertation tutor about primary research as the previous things I had collected didn't really fit with the way my dissertation headed in the end. So I took her advice and made sure I kept every piece of research relevant as I already have a concrete structure. I noticed I lacked research in my autership paragraphs and evaluation of scenes in Marie Antoinette and The Virgin Suicides in regards to making the audience aware of themselves. So these are the two areas I decided to take my primary research.

The first way I started to take my research was by contacting any lecturers that had research interests in auteurship or independent cinema and any emails I could grab from the authors of the many books I had read (including Pam Cook and Geoff King) The second way I'm thinking about conducting my research is through a group study where I get a couple of people in the film industry (who are aware of Coppola or her films) and ask them a couple of questions about the specific areas I need research in. I'm yet to formulate questions or clips but I think it will really help strengthen my research.

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Dissertation tutor help - Introduction writing notes

A lot about the structure

Main 4/5 points

Introduce main question. State title.

Motivation/Rationale. Why this topic?

Research methods. Why have you carried them out?

Discuss structure, be literal. Divided into three chapters etc.

May or may not apply: Key terms.

Do not have to be in that order and can be combined. If there are main sources in a structure it is good to mention that.

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Dissertation tutor help - Conclusion Writing Notes

Start with "In this dissertation, I aimed to find out'

Conclude and then go into how you found out this.

The go into each chapter. What does this mean? Makes sure you have concluded each chapter. You can conclude more than once in your chapter.

Key points and findings. Define conclusion (no yes or no conclusions).

Include a paragraph about how it will or has influenced you.

Should be between 600 and 800 words. Looser piece of writing than your introduction.

Reflections - no new pieces of information.

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The formative is being printed as I speak and I completed the conclusion and list of illustrations last night.

The one comment I do need to make is that I really wasn't happy about the lack of primary research in this draft. Unfortunately I just haven't had the success in finding the right sources to fit in with the right paragraphs and I'd rather give in a good constructive formative rather than low quality drool that has primary research in. I hope that decision is right and I continue my search for primary research.

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A couple of hours later... 15 minutes till 6pm and I have finished my introduction, completed my list of things I needed to change and inserted my illustrations. However, I have not finished my third chapter or my conclusion. I really want to try and give a completed dissertation in tomorrow, so I'm gunna keep going. But ultimately, I am really happy that I got this far!

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Make no mistake about it, no matter what you read or what people try and make you believe, things are not all roses and candy for women onscreen or behind the scenes in hollywood.

"When there are more women behind the scenes, there are more women onscreen and they are less objectified. So women hire women.But the numbers are clear, when there is a woman director, 40% of the films have women onscreen compared with 30% when there is no female director. And when there is a female writer, women characters appear onscreen 37% of the time compared with 29% of films without a female writer."

"Things are not moving in the right direction for women onscreen. The numbers are stuck at around 30%, yet remember, we buy 50% of the tickets. The numbers continue to show that Hollywood doesn't care enough about women. They believe that sexualizing girls and women sells tickets." - MELISSA SILVERSTEIN

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One day until my formative (it's tomorrow!!) hand in. So I'm maknig sure that my list of things to do, is completely in time. My aim is at 6pm I will be printing whilst eating a take out in reward for all my efforts. Let's see if I do it...

Left my dissertation for a couple of days to reflect on it and to also work on my other units for my course and it's completely thrown me going back to it! Had to finely go through reading it with my reader again and get myself on track. Luckily this actually really helped me rather than tripping me up. I now have a structure for my introduction and a list of things that I can write up in my conclusion. It also helped me figure out what needed to be discovered in my third chapter! Now to start writing...

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Second Chapter completed and I'm really happy with it! Also got a reader to go through it to spot any spelling or grammar mistakes for me. Luckily we couldn't see anything wrong with the structure, so now it's the case of sorting my third chapters structure out and writing that.

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To get more knowledge about American Zeotrope, I watched this documentary that was filmed in 2004.

There's some great quotes to put in my nepotism and auteurship paragraphs.

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