CS

     After some thought I decided that as I enjoy film as much as I do, it would be good to relate my research report to movies in some way, something along the lines of film/game adaptions was going through my mind. However on speaking to my tutors it was agreed that I would be able to focus on a film of my choice (I picked "Django Unchained". I decided my research report question would be something along the lines of "What are the film techniques used within Django Unchained, and what are their relevance to other media?"
     To prepare for our next cs session I began thinking about some of the areas I would start looking at. After some discussion with my tutors and some basic research on the film I came up with the following ideas.
Tarantino's use of fairytale:
-"Inglorious Basterds" relation to Cinderella, lost slipper, disfigurement as penance
-Disfigurement also appears in Django
-Both films use intertitles that set the scene in fairytale style eg. Once upon a time..
-Seigfried and Brynhilde legend told within film runs parallel to narrative, further more it also happens to be a German folktale
-Relationship to narrative theories- character functions/action spheres, Vogler's  Hero's journey, Levi Straus's Binary Opposition
-Song featuring in soundtrack tell separate stories themselves
Other possible areas of focus could include:
-Tarantino's controversy- publicity?
-Genre relationships, Blazing saddles (second link through use of humour), Red Dead Redemption (second link through controversy/publicity
-Blaxploitation as an inspiration for the film

This will give me some areas to focus on for my project. We also had a group tutorial where we were directed to various online sources that would help us find reference material. However a lot of these were game related so I have had to look elsewhere for more material. I have bought copies of both "Empire" and "Total Film" magazines (the Django editions) for any material they may produce.