This week was about literature reviews and how to get your topic to develop your research topic. So before we lock down on a subject, we should ask ourselves a few questions: What motivated you to do the research? What will the reader learn? and How might the inquiry connect with previously established research? Then we saw the structure of the Critical Report which we all had a lot of questions about. Nigel also gave us academic resourceslike Google Scholar, Jstor and Animationstudies 2.0, he also spoke about how writing introductions and conclusions which were helpful.
So I have been writing my research for a long time, but I didn’t know that I had to update it in my blog. So now I will try to update what I have done.
The topic I chose is the history of visual effects, but it was too much to cover in the research, so now I have planned to stick to only writing about green screen. I found a lot of papers about the green screen but very few about the origin of the green screen. Then I came across [digital] Visual Effects and Compositing By Jon Gress which briefly spoke about matting and I felt that was where it all began, but a lot of people say that I began with the film The Thief of Baghdad by Lawrence Butler in 1940. Now I need to find more academic resources to help to complete the paper which is hard to find.