I began my research for my contextual study by looking at New Waves as a whole to understand what they were and why they happened. I began looking at the french new wave as that was the first new wave to take place and change cinema. Once I had a firm understanding of what a new wave was I began looking at the American New Wave which was my topic of choice for the course of my 'Contextual Study'. I began the study by gathering information from the American new wave and the time period in which it took place and then moved on to look at 3 film texts which I had chosen to focus my study on. I did this so that when I watched the films I was able to apply slight contextual knowledge, which helped with my overall understanding of my 3 films 'Easy Rider' 'Bonnie and Clyde' and 'Midnight Cowboy'.
Throughout the process of carrying out research I collected primary research from books and articles which helped to extend my knowledge of the American New Wave and also to help develop my own different interpretations of each individual film text. Whilst doing my research I found that the books I used provided me with great in-depth contextual knowledge of the New Wave and the 60's, however articles online which I read where much more straight to the point and I found them easier to find relevant information from.
I tried to only use information that was relevant to my topic, and cut out bits of information that did not support my study, this helped to ensure that my overall essay was concise and that i did not waffle on too much.
The most difficult part of the contextual study for me was analysing specific sequences of the film's as I found it particularly hard to analyse specific edits and develop an interpretation from those edits. I really had to persevere and look at a variety of different sequences throughout my films in order to ensure that my analysis on these edits was good enough to include in my contextual study.
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