Introduction
This week, we had one-to-one tutorials and showed Nigel our progress regarding our research topic and bibliography.
Research Question
Old Question: To what extent do film semiotics play an essential role in world building and characterization within the horror genre?
As regards my research question, even though I have defined that I want to explore Tim Burton’s movies and his use of the horror genre, I felt that the term ‘film semiotics’ was too broad. For this reason, I wanted to narrow down the topic and formulated the following title.
New Question: How does Tim Burton balance horror and empathy in the characters of his movies to create an emotional impact on the audience?
In this sense, I will specifically focus on the characters of his movies, and I will still conduct my study from a semiotic approach as I will analyze the characters as signs that convey meaning.