Monday 31 October 2011

Research Log (In Progress)

Diploma in Creative and Media, Level 3     Research log for Unit 6: Investigation

Candidate name
Edward Hedley
Candidate’s number
955331
Centre name
The Henley College
Centre number
62441



Essay title
How has Orson Welles acting career helped with his directing, producing, writing and a voice acting disciplines? 



Source
When and where found
How found
Summary of information
Icons of Film the 20th Centaury
15/09/11 College Library
College Website Library catalogue
Dates and facts on Orson Welles: What films he was involved with, what jobs he did, where he was when born, lived and died. But most of it was information about Citizen Kane – about the plot, actors  
The 20 greatest movie directors of all time
15/09/11 College Library
College Website Library catalogue
Facts on Orson Welles and other great directors
 Pocket essentials Stanley Kubrick revised and updated by Paul Duncan
26/09/11
Searching the library
Starts with the author’s biography/introduction to Stanley Kubrick. The book also includes a lot of the films he has directed and with them includes the: cast, crew, story and interesting facts about the shots and effects.
Stanley Kubrick the complete films
26/09/11
Searching the library
How Stanley Kubrick became a film director, how he gained independence, what he did and facts and stories about Kubrick and the films he directed.
28/09/11
Searching Stanley Kubrick on IMBD
Mini biography, list of films he was involved with (directing, screenwriting, producing), Kubrick’s life works and life.  
28/09/11
Searching Stanley Kubrick on Wiki
Occupation, facts, family life, early works, films he was involved with and death.
A Clockwork Orange Film
01/10/11
Searching the college library on Stanley Kubrick films
It was directed and screen played by Kubrick and was made in 1971. The film lasts 136 minutes long and is about the life of Alex DeLarge a boy who is sent to prison for murder and undergoes experimental treatment that goes wrong. 
04/10/11
Searching Stanley Kubrick biography online
Timeline of dates and facts on Stanley Kubrick, from 1940 when Stanley Kubrick was sent to live with his uncle to 2001where Steven Spielberg released the film that he overtook from Kubrick when he died of a heart attack in his sleep. 
The Shining
08/10/11
Saw the film showing on T.V
It was directed and screen played by Kubrick and was made in 1980. The film lasts 142 minutes and is about a family who take care of an isolated hotel were the father of the family goes insane and tries to kill his family.
11/10/11
Searching YouTube for Full Metal Jacket clips
The clip lasted four minutes and twenty-seven seconds long and was about the introduction to meeting the new recruits and the sergeant.     
12/10/11
Searching YouTube for Private Pyle’s Death Full Metal Jacket
This clip was about the death and insanity of private Pyle. It started with Joker finding Pyle in the toilets and ended with him shooting the sergeant and then himself.