Although I have had many other ideas that I would have preferred, I have abandoned them all in hopes that I finally find something that might possibly fit into the IML defenition of Critical Studies which seems to exclude anything beyond film theory and study, neither of which actually interest me at all.
I have landed on the cop-out solution of simply editing together a set of clips from a ton of movies from the same genre, in order from old to new, in such a way that exposes the myths, conventions, and iconography of the genre as well as the evolution of technology and the changes from classical hollywood style to today's post-modern style. This happened to be the only suggestion that anyone, Steve to be precise, responded positively to, so I will do it, unless anyone else has more direction because I'd rather do something more creative than this.
So,
I am focussing on the evolution of a film genre,
to show the audience how the myths, conventions, and iconography have remained the same even as the style of film has evolved,
and am doing so in the film medium.
btw- sorry that my first post has been so long in coming, I just had high hopes that something great would come out of each of those weeks up until now so that I could just go with that new idea, but nothing happened and I have finally just let it go.
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Sorry, but I don't buy any of this. The burden of finding a project you'd like to do is on you, not the professors. If you have a great idea, if there's something you are burning to explore or discover (within the confines of your major - we can't be blamed for your choice of major) it is up to you to find a way to define and express and explore it.
This is a terrible start to a doomed project - if you hate it from the beginning, you will never be invested in it. Start wrestling with the ideas you do have, the projects you'd like to do and make something of one of them. There is a lot of leeway here despite your impressions of your meeting with Steve.
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