With the final week of classes already upon us, endless study sessions seem to be on repeat, sleep seems to have gone completely M.I.A, and papers seem to popping up like the pimples on our faces.
Starbucks and
Monster energy drinks seems to be ubiquitous where ever one turns on campus. As a full-time undergraduate social science student, who is taking a full plate of 5 classes, the hair pulling has already started, and the dark circles under my eyes are only getting bigger from the sleepless nights spent in front of the computer screen typing and chipping away at the endless 8-10 page final papers.
As a part of the modern media systems course which I am currently taking for example, I was given the final paper assignment of writing a 8-10 page analytical paper on a particular aspect of a selected medium. I have chosen to television as my medium of choice for which my paper will be centered on, and the type of analysis that I have chose to do my paper on is that of the format of television programming.
Prime-time television is a very unique programming feature of television. From the large selection of national and international prime-time programs, I have chosen
Grey's Anatomy as the prim-time programming that I will view and analyze contextually.
Grey's Anatomy has currently been airing for 10 seasons already, and each weeks never fails to draw a sizable audience. The American-made medical drama is not like that of many other medical dramas, as its success is lays within it's unique feature of being able draw in, and pull at the heart-strings of audience members from different backgrounds. Series creature Shonda Rhines is able to create a niche drama with a very culturally diverse cast, yet is also able sell the drama to wide array of audience members. I hope to be able to analyze the drama and derive the reason behind the wide success of the series. I want to find the reason for which is driving audience members to not only say "oh wow this was a great drama," but "oh wow that drama talked about...and that was really amazing." I look forward to learning more about the wide success of the series, but will of course have my handy chose of overly-caffeinate beverage by my side as to keep me awake after dying from my other projects.
