Thesis Proposal Change

After experiencing the worst start-of-a-semester in my college career, I decided its time to cut my losses and pursue a project a little less ambitious for Thesis. Rather than creating an interactive dual channel video instillation, I will be working on completing a documentary tracing the roots of my opinions and discovering the influences that shaped my personality. This will be a project I can not only use to have others learn about me, but a project I can use to learn more about myself.

I will treat this documentary the way I would an autobiography, by collecting my own thoughts on a broad range of topics, then use that array to categorize the people close to me based on things we agree on. I will be able to interview the people I choose on those topics, asking them questions about their own feelings towards the topic i choose. After collecting all of the soundbites needed, I will take the clips into post production with the intention of cutting the clips to formulate my own opinions to match the original array.

This process of making the film will work the same way it works in society. Those around you will express their opinions on certain topics, and your mind will extract and organize those thoughts to create an original opinion to call it's own. Through editing, I will select the opinions I agree with most and match the clips to form my own opinion that agrees with the original array of thoughts recorded at the start of the project.

The end result will be understood as a sub conscious map of my own opinions and will serve as a tool for introducing the audience to those who i consider to be close to me.