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Assignment One — Movie Watching Reflection (20%)

Your job is to apply the theories from Chapter 7 to an analysis of your own experiences of selectivity and gratifications.

Write about any single feature-length film that you watched this semester.

You can briefly explain what the movie was about, but focus on addressing the following audience-

related questions:

-Who chose to watch the movie?

-What factors guided the choice?

-What goals were you trying to achieve?

-What mood were you trying to manage?

-What was your level of attention?

-Did you skip certain parts?

-Did you multitask?

-What did you enjoy most and least about the movie?

-Were you happy about how you spent the overall period of time?

. Some of these questions might lead you to reflect on related movie-watching experiences.

. This assignment connects most closely to Chapter 7, “Audience Theories: Uses & Reception,” pp.

196-226, especially pp. 200-201 and 208-217 (specifically 208, 211-12, 214-15).

Reference to this chapter ¡s necessary for full marks.