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Research III: Amendment II: Question Changes

I have decided to change my question a bit to be more tangible, and something I can more directly work on. Before it was a very large topic to tackle and while that might have worked for something like visual arts, I find it hard to make tangible for filmmaking - which needs technical experimentation.

My question is changing into:

"How can I put an emphasis on key emotional elements present in a scene to make it a more engaging and effective experience for the audience?"

This means that my experimentation becomes more focused on the technical execution of scenes, I will be looking at interviews of directors who craft scenes well and try and find out what methods they employ to elicit emotion in the audience. I will also be researching some theoretical texts and try and see what people say makes a good scene or try and find an analysis of how the audience experiences emotion through film.

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This is what I was thinking about changing my question to, I still might change it to this later but for now, I am going to stick to my original as I want to start producing research first before I course-correct. At the moment I am still very much attached to my original question and find that its a greater motivator for me to put out new content. This new question is too limiting in scope and damages the enthusiasm I have for the project.
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