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Where am I at??
Where am I at??
So now that we are give or take 20-ish days from finishing up data collection, its a good time for a check in.
Just as a quick overview, a lil reminder if you will, I am looking at the depiction of psychological horror in gothic literature vs their film translations. Inherently, Gothic and psych horror are two different genres, and I was hoping to see what crossover I can see and what conclusions I can draw about "fear factor", both during gothic revival and the 20th -21st century. I'm reading 8 book and watching 8 movies in hopes to draw a conclusion on how the presentation has changed over time and how true to original themes the films are. I am reading the following books: Dracula, Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Northanger Abbey, Picture of Dorian Grey, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and Wuthering Heights.
So far I have gotten through 5 of the book/movie pairs I had planned to. I am a slight bit behind schedule as I would've preferred to be 6 book/movie pairs in and currently on my 7th but what done is done now!
I think I've had quite a bit of progress with my work, as my highlighters are certainly feeling the pain, but they are holding on well. My annotation process has been a pretty much all over the place, I still am annotating my themes to the same criteria I placed originally, but whether I just write all over the book pages and tab it for later or use sticky notes and try to keep the book a little clean, It kind of depends on my mood but they certainly aren't the prettiest (but you'll never know because I'm only taking photos of the prettier parts of my paper annotations). On the other hand with my movies, It's all digital, although I have been taking paper notes that I think are actually illegible. I will say getting the tactic for movie annotation was a slippery slope, as even the methods I was finding weren't always the most explicit about what would be the most efficient, so I did kinda make my own twist on it, just so that it worked for me and I got my data. I will say, I definetly want to watch these movies again sometime, but without pausing it every 2 seconds to take a five minute annotation break.
Challenges + Problem Solving
Challenges + Problem Solving
Biggest problem of my current life: Senioritis
I genuinely thought I'd be able to get around it, cause I feel like I was having senioritis my whole high school experience, but I definitely was misdiagnosing myself before. I think I have gotten a significant amount done despite the few days of no motivation, and its not like its bad to take a break once in a while. My only problem solving for this is just to kinda force myself to get it done? I have to make myself remember that this isn't the kind of thing I can just do the night before cause it's literally not possible unless I could read at a rate of 20 pages per minute and I watched the movies in 2x speed. So yeah, definitely had to spread it out a bit more, especially since I wanted to spend march analyzing and working on my presentation rather than being way far behind, so in this situation, toxic reinforcement is kinda working in my favor.
I have had some other smaller struggles, like feeling like I was presenting bias by being too lenient on what counted on my themes, but I think that was avoided more as I just made some more strict requirements in my annotation guide I created for myself.
Some Data Collection Highlights:
Some Data Collection Highlights:
theme's interacting <3
theme's interacting <3
It was really fun to see the themes interact with each other, I know it was a given as the themes I used were all related in a way, but the first time I saw it I felt incredibly satisfied. (also note; the photo on the left is genuinely the nicest page of annotations I made, it just goes downhill from there)
the effect of music
the effect of music
I had formerly thought of the difference of watching the movies as it has music, I have tried my best to not let it affect my annotation, but when eerie music starts playing I feel more anticipation. I do listen to music while reading as well, and I usually listen to something classical or without words so that it just aids in my reading but it doesn't provide the same mood change as I've seen in the movies.
What is next?
What is next?
Well in this story, I would say that data collection is the climax and we'll be starting to wrap up and make connections. I honestly can't wait to sit down and compare the data I have to each other cause then I'll get to see 1) if my data proves of disproves my initial hypothesis 2) whether all my work will actually come together well! As fun as the research process was, i'm excited to actually do some deeper analysis on my findings.
Through this process I have also learned a lot about myself. For one, as much as I love reading, if it's for school, my brain seems to find it less appealing which has been so much fun to deal with. I have also learned that my handwriting can very quickly become illegible and in-comprehensive, as when I was looking back at some of my annotations I could not for the life of me understand what I was writing, wether it was my handwriting of my lack of grammar in my thoughts. I also seem to get the most work done very early in the morning, as I seem to lose motivation once it starts getting supper sunny and hot (bc it has been really hot for winter time). Although these are less academic findings, it's just what I have noticed. I think I'll be able to make some more profound observations about myself as a researcher once i'm through with everything but for now I think we'll leave it vague for a dramatic reveal later on. :)
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