EPQ
Question
After deciding my topic and the rough outline of my question I now need to finalise the exact wording, what I'm going to investigate and how I'm going to go about investigating it.
Topic: Historical accuracy in film, study of director, narrative/character theory
Question: ??
Historical event: WWII/Titanic/WWI/Holocaust
Director: James Cameron/Steven Spielberg/Quentin Tarantino
Include narrative/character theory: Yes/No
Investigate:
- How accurate historical events are in films (over dramatised or true to events?)
- How historical events are portrayed by directors (accurate or falsified?)
From doing this planning I have found it may be quite hard to incorporate narrative/character theory into this essay, not only because it will seem like a bit of an add on but because I will almost certainly struggle to fit all of these 3 aspects into the 5000 word limit. Therefore I have chosen to cut this part and (like with editing and filming) focus on it later in the academic year in a separate essay that I will complete to further my knowledge and practice my writing rather than as part of the EPQ.
After losing the narrative.character theory part my question becomes all the more easier to structure without sounding so wordy. After some planning and rewording the first draft of my question is:
How accurately do writers/directors portray historical events in film/tv?
After I have completed some more research I should be able to narrow down which writers/directors I wish to discuss and which historical events in which film/tv shows.
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