Having (finally) started properly writing my essay, I realise that I might actually have more material than I need. I've done a lot of research intermittently over the last year, and I probably have enough to write a lot more than 3000 words if I wanted to.
So I'm going to focus my essay a bit more, and instead of looking at comics AND films, I'm just going to focus on film for CoP2. Next year, for CoP3, I think I'll focus on a similar topic, but will look in more depth at comics and other visual narrative illustration.
There are many contextual points and concepts that I want to explore, but having looked at the breadth of my research and how much I've already written (well over 3000 words) just in notes and quotes scribbled in notebooks and Word documents, I'm changing my question from 'How are female characters presented in visual narratives and why?' to just, 'How are female characters presented in cinema and why?'.
I also need to consider the fact that I have to include a 500 word paragraph about my own visual responses, so I need to leave room for it!
