Research:

(1) Comics

Here i am going to go into detail. I have narrowed my options for my documentary to;

-One comic through the ages e.g. superman (movie/comics/cartoon/TV show/merchandise), so exploring how comics, through one comic, has spread into other media, through one or many comics.

So i will be researcing this, however, i think i will talk about comics in general first, then focus on one if i choose to (which will be Batman if i do). This option also lets me incorporate this;

-Anime/manga convention in October=filming opportunities.

Because Mangas, Japanese comics, very frequently get made into Anime, Japanese cartoons, then maybe into films, this is a good example of my idea. And to clarify, my title will be 'Comics: Across Media Platforms'.

And just in case things don't go to plan for any reason, as a plan B , i will also research on;

-The era's of comic books, -what defines the era's,-Comics within the era's

(2) Autism

For this i will be researching;

*What is being done to help autistics.

I don't really know much about this, so I'll have to do a bit more research, maybe look into government schemes, and how awarness is created etc. And depending on whether or not i have enough material, i wil also do my documentary about;

*what (british) people understand about it, how they would react.

Right, researching this will be a little tricky, i suppose that it will have to be a wait-and-find-out sort of thing. I'd maybe have to randomly go up to people and ask them one or two questions about Autism during the actual filming. I dont want to do that and I don't have a lot of time to do this presentation, so i cant spend so much time making questionaires and go around giving them to people. I think i'll have to do a quick interview with a few people i come across to see what the general public know. I'll just ask, 'Do you know what Autism is?' or i could look for some secondary data on this. I'll link it to the first one.

My title would be 'Autism and the UK'

~~Ok, as i have said, researching is only collecting my material, the planning is where i'll go into specific detail about what *exactly* will be in my documentary. Lengthy? I dont really think so, after i have my material i'll be cutting and trimming all of it to fit into my 5 minute slot. I'll be putting all this into my 15 minute presentation (i'll have to check the 15 minutes) to show how i came from 6 topics down to this.


EXTRA:

I'm going to set myself the task of researching documentaries, how they are made, what they look like, how they capture the audiences attention etc, but not to much, i might just post a few examples of what i've seen, type up a bit of what i've learnt.


So now I'm just hopeing this all made sense :)