After going over my lecture notes in great detail I decided to go with my usual approach to these kinds of assignments/deadlines: Make 4 or 5 choices, explore each one and then decide which of them I think I’ll be able to do the best in, the ideas I chose were the following:
1: Autism in the media – I go out and track down as many cases as possible where autism is featured in any media (ie. books about it that are meant to entertain, episodes of TV series where a character has it or is featured in an episode, etc).
Why?
Because I’m interested in the disorder, as well as having it (albeit very mildly myself) and already have some inkling of how it may be portrayed, mostly high functioning autism and in the Rain Man vein of representing the disorder, it should prove interesting to see whether my inital opinion will be proven right or not
2. A critical cinematic comparison of Japanese/Asian horror to Western/Hollywood horror – I will watch one film from Japan/Asia and one Western/Hollywood made horror film and do a critical cinematic comparison between the two, what cinematic techniques they both use and where they differ (ie. colour schemes, underlying themes to the films, how they go about scaring their audience, etc, etc, etc). I plan to select one film from each of the sub genres of horror films, Creature Feature, Slasher, Psychological Horror and one big budget film from each area (ie. Uzumaki from Japan and Freddy VS Jason from Hollywood) that the area is well known for producing, is ‘stereotypical’ of the area and its type of horror films
Why?
I’ve always enjoyed horror films and more recently, Asian horror (the original Grudge, Chaw, etc) and feel a cinematic comparison of the two geographical areas of film will have a wide variety of academic material to help me, and that I can create a relatively new/unusual hypothesis (that cinematically, both areas use a lot of similar techniques and aren’t as different as many people believe)
3. Manga/Anime as a creative medium – I go out and track down manga/anime that cover issues and topics that generally, they’re not assumed to cover (ie. cooking, sports, psychology, politics, economics)
Why?
Anime and manga have always been a great passion of mine and in the course of reading/collecting them I’ve found a great many that cover topics I didn’t expect to see covered ( Life – Covering teenage depression and suicide, Akumetsu – Focusing on the relationship between political corruption and the stagnation of the economy, With The Light – covering autism, etc) and firmly believe it is as much a useful creative medium as television, books and the like
4. A group project of a series of cooking shows – Two other students and I will create a cook-a-long show
Why?
Creating the cooking show is similar to what I’ve already done in other modules ie. Filming a documentary in year two and creating a short film this year and would let me work in a way I’m very used to already and lets me play to my strength, so to speak
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