And so the stress begins..

Another term, another new topic to force us writhing in agony and sighing in anguish. As soon as we sat down in the classroom we were told of the unfortunate following weeks that was to be plagued upon us. Six weeks of grueling research in school and then another six weeks during our summer holidays. This meant that i would have approximately 2.5 hours of sleep to live on if i wished to pass this exam.

The task began by picking one of a potential six topics which would have to be religiously researched for up until the next exam, with us becoming the "experts" of that topic. Being a film studies student, my eye was straight away drawn to the film topics of 'Women and Film' or 'World Cinema'. After much discussion with myself and my teachers, i decided on 'World Cinema' as this is something that has interested me over the last couple of years.

Next came the part of actually making a hypothesis which would be my question for the exam. This again involved lots of thorough chats with peers and teachers. Finally though i managed to come up with a basic hypothesis (remember its a very rough one at the moment) of:

How independent foreign language films are gaining high profile status through specific marketing tools such as festivals.

So this is where I'm up to at the moment, but any new bits i find ill keep on posting.
Cheers big ears :)