Still figuring out my project

I had a good meeting today with my mentors, Jeff and Brad. Originally we were going to go over my IRB, but then, because that's so complicated and I need to revise it again, I decided just to talk to them about the project itself and how to be more specific about it narrow my gaze on what it is exactly that I will be doing. My biggest problem has been trying to come up with the question that I want to answer. Jeff asked me what it was that drew my attention to this story in the first place. I explained to him that I thought it was impressive, compared to the rest of the world, what Tibetans and Indians are achieving despite their situations and different backgrounds. He helped me transform and translate this into the simple question of, "Is it possible for people to get along?" More specific to this project the question could be, "Is it possible for Indians and Tibetans to get along, and if so, how?" but I want the audience to evaluate more than just Indians and Tibetans. I want them to evaluate the question for themselves. Can we get along with others, and what is necessary in order to do this? Somehow I feel like this helps me determine the route and direction of my film.

How to be Creative

This goes in combination with my last post about focusing. It also functions as me trying to be positive despite many my many woes and frustrations currently involved with my project.

In my documentary class the other day we were learning about Dopamine (not sure if I spelled that right). It is the chemical in your brain that causes you to crave new information. In a way it can be very useful because it helps you to want to learn new things. But in other ways it is not so useful, because not all information is important or worthwhile. For example, dopamine could very well be blamed for an hour of youtube watching, when you only meant to watch one video in the first place. This is something I know I've been a victim to because of all the additional videos listed down the right side of every youtube page. This is all information, though most of the time, not very useful.