Key Word for our Project (9/1/2014)

* Today our lecturer spoke to us about our chosen projects and how we can become so absorbed in trying to find something to write about, that we don't realise it doesn't exist or is in another field.

Therefore, he suggested that we narrow our search by trying to find existing articles and papers based on similar subjects such as film and TV. By doing this we find out what others have written and whether or not it is relevant at all to our ideas.
My research included... 

• Looking up numerous movies that have clear examples of good and evil within them, such as 'The Lord of the Rings', 'Star Wars' and 'Harry Potter'. 'Star Wars' is an especially good example as it involves the battle of good and evil between Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader, yet Vader redeems himself at the end by saving his son Luke from the evil Emperor.
• Whereas, in TV I remembered the great show 'Survivors' in which the characters are portrayed more as humans with the instinct to survive rather than being solely good or evil.
• Looking online, I found an interesting article that claimed that babies of six month old's could tell the difference between good and evil, thus I could perhaps mention this in my work.

* We were then asked to write down a broad description of our chosen topic, using a key word to focus our search on. I chose 'Alignment' (a term used in Dungeons and Dragons for morality) as my overall discussion is on good and evil in gaming.
After doing the above we then shared our key words with the group in order to see if anyone else was doing something similar.  
I found that Adam would be someone useful to share resources with, as he will be writing about morality and indoctrination.

* With my key word chosen, I then used it to further expand the material I looked at today.
This research included...

• Finding many images that people had made of characters from both video games and movies showing each one as one of the nine alignments which included Lawful, Neutral and Chaotic all within Good, Neutral or Evil.
• I also found numerous examples of video games (mainly RPG's) that include alignment through the moral choices players make, such as 'Fallout' and 'Star Wars: Knights of the old Republic'.  

The lecturer also gave the following advice...

• As always keep researching things and add useful discoveries to our blogs, as this will show your work efforts outside of college. This is especially useful since we should be doing the same amount of work outside college as in.
• In general we should support one another, so if we find anything that could be used to help others in the group then we should share our resources. Therefore, a Facebook page will be put together in order to share things.
• We will need to have a presentation ready in order to showcase our concept to the group at some point, so I should start to create one.

Harvard Referencing:

• Derbyshire, D (2010) Babies Know the the difference between good and evil at six months, study reveals. Available at: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1275574/Babies-know-difference-good-evil-months-study-reveals.html (Accessed: 9/1/2014).