A vital characteristic of a high-scoring postgraduate proposal is the inclusion of risk management and contingency planning. This week, I forced myself to step back from my optimism and critically look for potential threats to my project’s completion. Through this self-reflection, I identified a significant obstacle: what happens if the chosen sequence in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse contains too many rapid cuts and visual layers to be coded accurately using my method?
To resolve this issue autonomously, I formulated a strategic contingency plan within my methodology draft. If a scene proves too visually chaotic for standard frame-by-frame coding, I will implement a selective sampling strategy, narrowing my analysis exclusively to the emotional climax sequences where character performance and camera dynamics are most tightly integrated. This independent reflective thinking proved to me that a solid research proposal does not pretend that everything will go perfectly; instead, it demonstrates the researcher’s maturity by actively anticipating anomalies and preparing structured solutions in advance.
