Research Questions?

Research Questions?

I had a fairly lengthy talk with my tutor Gregor White today about what i'm going to do as my honours project question. This is the result of the pitch session that I had last week that basically made me re-think my entire project, having done so I'm now having to re-think it again.

I spoke with Gregor about the prospect of doing some practice based research, which would involve looking at the differences in the way that animation is produced based on whether it is being produced in stereo 3d or not. Gregor wasn't too keen on this idea because it seems a little obvious that there are differences, but there are not that many of them, which would make for a pretty weak dissertation.

After discussing several avenues of investigation (including audience immersion with S3d and scene layout in S3d) Gregor suggested that I explore the uses of virtual reality. Specifically how one might be able to create a more theatrical experience with stereo 3d, in conjunction with virtual reality, than one is able to achieve with traditional film.

Although I like the idea of this, because it allows me to focus exclusively on the animation (I would not have to worry about backgrounds and other characters ), I can't help but feel that it's quite a departure from the personal goals I had for this year. Despite the advantages of doing this project I'm not sure that I would be totally satisfied with end result, knowing that I have not achieved what I set out to do at the start of the academic year.

I think I need to develop this idea over the weekend and consider how I might implement making a film (which is what I wanted to do originally) into the proposed subject area, thus forming a reasonable research question but with a level of personal satisfaction.