My Coursework Idea

My Coursework Idea

I will be looking at how language is used in the first two minutes of a best mans speech comparing how American and British Speeches differ.

Methodology; I will look at the first two minutes of four best man speeches two from the UK and two from America. I will make transcripts from youtube videos, then compare and contrast the speeches, finding out how the nature of American and British best man speaches differ. I expect to find symilar structure a within the speeches yet a large difference in humor due to the different cultures.



My Media Piece; My Media Piece will be a magazine article in a wedding magazine on how to write the perfect best man speech.

Monday, 10 October 2011

Methodology

To discover the features within best man speeches I had to take transcripts from YouTube clips. I decided to use the first two minutes from when the dialogue begins from four best man speeches. This way I would have enough data to show patterns and similarities in the speeches.
Best man speeches tend to be at a length of around ten minutes. I wanted to compare features within different speeches so decided to take only the first two minutes which narrows down my data allowing a more detailed analysis of the first part of the speech.
To make sure that the speeches I looked at were considered to be good by a wide audience I looked at the number of views, likes and dislikes a video had; only choosing videos which were widely liked with the most views. I made sure that the speeches where dialogue based as some of the videos which were widely liked and viewed had other reasons other than the dialogue for being liked such as dance sequences.

1 comment:

  1. Your plans and ideas sound fine so far.
    What features are you finding? Your discoveries will allow you to phrase your introduction and methodology more precisely so that your overall structure should be easier to organize.
    For the media piece, you should have lots of material from the YouTube data to help you.

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