I'm struggling with ideas

In class last Thursday I wrote down a list of random things that Derek said would be helpful for the project:
-one possible topic from concentration
-does not have to incorporate everything in concentration
-MUST incorporate all knowledge
-the more narrow the subject the more sources there are and the more there is to write about

I also wrote down some other things that could be considered ideas for the project or sparks of ideas to come:
-how to make a film from a story
-describing the idea process
-post production (one of my favorite things!)
-what it takes to bring people together to make a film
-the business side of film pre/production/post (all separate) - being a business minor and all I thought incorporating that could be interesting

that is all I have for now...

how it all started

When I first came to App I had no idea what I wanted to study. My first two years were full of taking all the required classes to graduate. Surely while taking those I would find something that sparked my interest... nope. I remember sitting down one day and thinking about what I was going to do about a major and minor. My dad really wanted me to do business, but I hated that idea with a passion! I remembered how I got placed in a Literature and Film class my junior year of high school and remembered how fun it was. I wondered if App had anything like that to offer, so I checked around and sure enough there was an English major with a film concentration. I'm not the biggest fan of the subject English, but I thought I'd give it a try. I don't think I lasted more than a day. The second semester of my sophomore year I remember signing up for a few English classes along with my other ones. I hated them, there was no way I was going to make this my major! I continued to look around to see if there was another way to have a film concentration. I looked through the Communications department, Theater department and even the Curriculum and Instruction department but none had what I was looking for. Finally someone told me about the IDS department and how I could have an Individually Designed major and take from all of those departments. I really enjoy being able to take classes from three different departments and apply them myself to what I want to do!

Now I'm just nervous about how this last semester is going to play out and what I'm going to do after I graduate!

one idea...

This is probably over done, but being a film studies major my first idea for the senior project was a short film. I was thinking of maybe making a 'Making Of' film. Show everything it takes to get stuff prepared to shoot and then shooting and then the post production. This sounds a little bit like one of the projects Derek was talking about on the first day, one that would take longer than a semester to do, but if it is a short enough film I think it might work.
Here is one of my projects from last semester, it is an animation I did over Thanksgiving for my Beginning Video class. It would be cool to do a 'Making Of' of something like this, the creating of the idea/story, doing it, then editing it.

I don't know if I will stick with this idea or not, but it is just a start right?!
HELP!