Inquiry Project Brainstorm

My inquiry project will be about the relationship violence in the media has on how students act. This is a very broad topic, and there are many specific questions that I could ask. In order to gather data from my observation day at arts high school, I plan on asking the students questions about what kind of media they pay attentions to. A few questions could be: Do you watch the news at least 5 times a week? Do you own (insert graphic videogame name here)? Have you seen (insert even more graphic movie name here)? I would also have to ask the teacher, who has hopefully been teaching for awhile, if he has noticed an increase in violence in the student body over the years. If a large proportion of the students are exposed to violent types of media, and if the teacher says that the student body has gotten more aggressive during his career, then it could be said that the violent media is to blame. I would have to also gather information on research already done on this subject, since violence in the media has been a topic of discussion for a very long time.
I think violence through movies gets across to the students more than any other type of entertainment or media. I know that in my town, the movie theater was the hang out spot for everyone in school. And I know that all of my friends in high school would watch movies when they were hanging out. Also, men and women go to see movies in equal numbers, unlike if my question was focused on video games, which is primarily a male dominated market. But asking the students about other types of violent media they are exposed to would not be wasted data, because I could always use that data as supporting facts to answering my question.