So, I've been thinking a lot about what I'd like to do for my final project. I am extremely interested in doing something that relates to how women are portrayed in print media. I'd like to do a different study, not an exact replication of one we've studied in class. I also think it would be neat to somehow study face-ism in music videos, but I'm not sure how I'd judge that. Would I do 5 male artists and 5 female artists and see how many face vs. body shots there are at the end of all ten videos? I'm not sure how I'd pick the videos/artists, either. Top 5 male and female artists on MTV or on Billboard? How long would the shot have to be to constitute a tally for an instance of face-ism? If 5 seconds counts as a face-ism shot, and the camera is on a man or woman's face for 30 seconds... does that count as 6 instances of face-ism, or should I not worry about measuring it like that, and simply count each instance as 1 whether it lasts 4 seconds or 40 seconds?
WHEW...
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Kelly,
Good ideas about facism in videos--there is probably a way to do this, but let me see if I can locate another scholar show has tackled the issue in terms of video, rather than print.
J
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