Learner response to Ignite – typed up as requested.
Excellent reflection and thoughtful paragraph on continuing this into critical
investigation.
Critical Investigation proposal – done, detailed and looks
impressive. The excellent research over the summer has really paid off here.
You've also been absolutely clear about what you want to study from the very
start which is very helpful.
You've got several question drafts – I’d go with the middle
one for now, we can adjust it later if we need to. You may find the research
takes you in a certain direction or we need to add something to the question.
Angle/hypothesis – these can work. For angle, I would choose
one side or the other to be your main angle but obviously cover both in the
essay.
Linked production – needs to be added to proposal but your
idea is absolutely fine. A horror movie opening is definitely do-able and can
be done effectively on a low budget.
Loads of MIGRAIN research in your summer project post,
really has helped here, brilliant to see.
For SHEP – social is good but copied and pasted, make sure
you can articulate this in your own words. Economic is just superb – I’d never
realised the correlation between economic downturns and horror movies being
popular. For historical, you've got nothing – and this is the easy one! Look at
audience pleasures over time – analyse a horror movie from the 1980s. For
political, try and link it to your question – so moral panic, whether films
should be banned, stuff like that.
For issues/debates/theories, pretty good but you need to
link them to your topic more explicitly. In particular, research loads of
audience theories because this will link to your topic of audience pleasures.
For the research plan, you've got a good start but will need
much more detail over the next few weeks, particularly with regards to books.
Copy it into your Notes and Quotes document but before doing any research do
some more on the research plan, turn it into a huge list of potential sources.
Publish this on your blog with your next steps in this
project.
- add in more in my research plan - look at more books
- complete the audience theories
- start on my notes and quotes
