This week the group presented and explained the topics of their research assessments to the rest of us for feedback with Jesse researching how boxing matches on are covered on film, Lachlan looking into Edgar Wrights overall style across his filmography, Tully looking into how phone conversations on screen are covered between two or more scenes, Ziggy looking into when characters are taken out of their world e.g. for a song in musicals before returning back at the end and Kaan looking into documentary coverage while I explained how I’m going to look into POV shots in horror movies. I think it’s great that we’ve all chosen uniquely different topics to cover and that we could all engage with the other’s presentations and ask questions.

After the class ended I started looking into the films I could study so I started binging the YouTube channel Dead Meat where host James A. Janise does the Kill Count which goes over a horror film and does the numbers behind the kills while giving the best awards for best and worst kills in the movie. I started going over these videos as they are typically filled with interesting behind the scenes facts about the cast, crew and how shots in the movies were filmed which I believe will prove beneficial for my research topic. I also watch the ones I’d seen again and the new ones to see if there were any films that used the POV shots that I hadn’t considered so I could add them to the list of films I was already putting together. Being someone who appreciates the genre I have a stack of films at home to look through and with streaming services like Netflix having hundreds of films to pick through I should have more than enough material to research without leaving the house.