What is it About True Crime??

Links Mentioned in Video: BCM241 Beta Mapping the True Crime Audience – Week 3 Blog Post Tutor for the Day – Week 5 Blog Post Rachel Franks refers to true crime as “a story of real events, shaped by the teller and imbued with his or her values about such events”. These stories are dominated

Tutor for Another Day:

This week I have created a short video displaying my feedback comments on my peers beta blog posts! Check it out then have a read about my feedback process… This week’s blog topic focused on peer commentary for the beta. It was a great way to catch up on some of my peers’ DA’s and

BCM241 BETA

The Synthesis and Knowledge gained from BCM241 During This Research and Media Niche Activity: BCM241 has allowed me to gain a deeper understanding of research, using it as a tool to uncover truths about my niche and gain insight on this audience. First and foremost, I learnt that autoethnography is a qualitative method of research

Epiphanies… Real Talk

As touched upon last week, I wanted to go into more detail on my 3 epiphanies of the emotional, psychological and empathetic factors of true crime. However this week, I plan to discuss how these epiphanies work to form my evocative, textual and discourse analysis framework. I have also provided a short summary above of

Exploring True Crime: Psychologically and Emotionally

My autoethnographic investigation dives into the media niche of true crime through tiktok. Autoethnography seeks to describe and analyse research personal experience through research and writing, to understand cultural experience (Ellis, C Et Al. 2010). Therefore in order to understand the cultural experience of my niche through the platform I am creating short videos about

Tutor For The Day (Peer Commentary)

Looking at my peers’ work this week was very eye opening as I was able to see just how unique their DA’s were and how great they’re coming together. The pitches I reviewed were aesthetic and engaging, one in particular even offered new perspectives on a personal experience they were studying, which was very interesting

My Media Niche Explained (BCM241 Pitch)

As my research focuses on a sensitive topic I will ensure ethical consideration of the victims as well as the friends and family of the victims by being cautious of my words and actions around topics within this niche. As mentioned in the pitch, my persona will incorporate the 5 dimensions of persona. My persona

Mapping The True Crime Audience

Text version: An ethnographic study can be relevant commercially, professionally and personally. Commercially, ethnographic research can assist businesses in better understanding customers and potential customers’ buying motives. Professionally, ethnographic studies can gain insight into how people operate, allowing you to connect with others and gain understanding of their motivations and actions. And personally, a study

Why We Love Crime TikTok?!

If I could describe my interests with one niche it would be true crime! Once hearing about a crime case, I just can’t help myself to research further and find out every gory little detail. One of the reasons why I love tiktok so much is because it automatically takes it upon itself to place