1. Topic Area
Crime and the Media
2. Proposed title, question, hypothesis
Copycat crime ( or maybe be more specific and focus on serial killers)
3. Teacher approval granted, in principal?
Yes
4. Principle texts (if text based study)
The recent Joker killing in Belgium, Dun Blaine articles, Natural Born Killers, Jamie Bulger etc
5. Reason for choice
Interesting debates, lots of resources, already have quite a lot of knowledge surrounding the topic
6. Academic context for this study (similar research, relevant theory, named theorists)
-Hypodermic needle theory
-negative effects research e.g. bobo doll experiment
-Passive vs. avtive viewer
7. Institutional context for this study (industry focus, other texts for comparison, named practitioners, relevant theory, issues, questions)
8. Identify the audience context for this study (audience profile, access to audience, potential sample)
Children and Young males (But there may issues with showing them clips from films with cert. 18). however I have easy access to this demographic --> my brothers and their friends
9. How will the 4 key concepts be relevant to your study (audience, institution, forms and conventions, representation)?
10 Potential research sources (secondary):
secondary academic books and websites, secondary industry books and websites, secondary popular criticism. Please identify specific examples you have come across.Websites, Books
11. Potential research sources (primary):
Questionnaire, Internet Forum, Focus groups, Analysis of texts
12. Modifications agreed with your lead teacher
13. Potential limits/obstacles/problems?
14. Teacher concerns
15. Teacher approval
