THE FUTURE OF YOUR TV
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Lessons
1. Course intro & Intro to Communication
2. Online - Good TV & Reading Notes
2. In Person - Good TV & Reading Notes
3. Media Analysis Basics
4. Media Analysis - Color & Symbol
5. Media Analysis - Light/Dark & Camera Angle
6. Media Analysis - Face/Body, Power/Norms
7. The History of TV
8. The 50s - I Love Lucy
9. The 60s - Dick Van Dyke
10. The 70s - Good Times
11. The 70s - Mary Tyler Moore
12. The 80s - The Golden Girls
13. The 80s - Full House & Fuller House
14. The 90s - Nickelodeon
15. The 90s - Will & Grace
16. The 2000s - Girlfriends
17. 2000s - Always Sunny
18. 2000s - Mad Men
19. 2010s - OITNB
20. Race & Final Project
21. The 2010s - Blackish
22. The 2010s - Fresh Off the Boat
23. The 2010s - Master of None
24. The 2010s - One Day at a Time
25. The Real World - Intro to Reality TV
26. Dance Moms - Reality TV Ethics
26. Toddlers & Tiaras - Reality TV Ethics - Online Section
27. Hoarders - Reality TV Narrative
28. Queer Eye and Course Wrap Up
Assignments
Reading Notes - all sections
Individual Meeting - Online Section
Screening Quizzes - In Person section
Screening Quizzes - online section
Asynchronous Lesson Quizzes - online section
Final Project - all sections
Episode Guide
Takehomes
Lesson 2: Good TV & Reading Notes Assignment
Online Asynchronous Section
Instructions
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In Person Section
Instructions
Sign in to Canvas attendance by 2:10pm
Takehomes
Essential Question
What makes for Good TV - discussion
Reading Notes Activity
Wrap Up and Up Next
Essential Question
What makes for good television?
How do we complete the reading notes assignment?
What Makes for Good Television
Some of my favorites
Take 2 minutes to jot down some thoughts - what are your favorite shows (or just shows you are into or watching right now)
Class discussion - what are you watching and what makes for good television (and for good characters)?
In Person section - Class folder link is on Canvas
Seinfeld
Better Off Ted
Don't Trust the B in Apartment 23
The Good Place
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Community
Archer
Arrested Development
Brooklyn 99
Difficult People
30 Rock
Broad City
Schitt's Creek
The Santa Clarita Diet
What We Do in the Shadows
I'm Sorry
Elementary
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Orphan Black
Lie to Me
Lucifer
iZombie
Black Mirror
White Collar
Shameless
Travelers
Mad Men
Queer Eye More than a Makeover
Mindhunter
Atypical
You
Dead to Me
All things Guy Fieri...
Reading Notes Activity
Let's review the basics of the assignment (that I discussed in the video you watched for today)
We will then start a reading notes assignment activity where we will work on our own and together as a class.
I will share my screen when we work as a class, but this doc is also located in the Class OneDrive folder inside the Live Session Notes folder
1._thompson_and_mittell.pdf
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248 kb
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last_name_first_name_-_reading_notes_.docx
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12 kb
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docx
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Home
Home - Online
Home - In Person
Syllabus
Syllabus - Online
Syllabus - In Person
Lessons
1. Course intro & Intro to Communication
2. Online - Good TV & Reading Notes
2. In Person - Good TV & Reading Notes
3. Media Analysis Basics
4. Media Analysis - Color & Symbol
5. Media Analysis - Light/Dark & Camera Angle
6. Media Analysis - Face/Body, Power/Norms
7. The History of TV
8. The 50s - I Love Lucy
9. The 60s - Dick Van Dyke
10. The 70s - Good Times
11. The 70s - Mary Tyler Moore
12. The 80s - The Golden Girls
13. The 80s - Full House & Fuller House
14. The 90s - Nickelodeon
15. The 90s - Will & Grace
16. The 2000s - Girlfriends
17. 2000s - Always Sunny
18. 2000s - Mad Men
19. 2010s - OITNB
20. Race & Final Project
21. The 2010s - Blackish
22. The 2010s - Fresh Off the Boat
23. The 2010s - Master of None
24. The 2010s - One Day at a Time
25. The Real World - Intro to Reality TV
26. Dance Moms - Reality TV Ethics
26. Toddlers & Tiaras - Reality TV Ethics - Online Section
27. Hoarders - Reality TV Narrative
28. Queer Eye and Course Wrap Up
Assignments
Reading Notes - all sections
Individual Meeting - Online Section
Screening Quizzes - In Person section
Screening Quizzes - online section
Asynchronous Lesson Quizzes - online section
Final Project - all sections
Episode Guide
Takehomes