Tutorial #1 (Wednesday 21/03/2012)

Technically this is my 3rd meeting with my teacher, but for organisations sake, lets just start new.

Usually people leave these sessions with a sense of pride, accomplishment, anticipation and/or shit-scared. Today I was mix of all four. So far in my "journey" (I really hate calling it that, it seems so english advanced....but I can't think of anything else right now so I'll stick with it for now.), I have gone through craploads of ideas, flowcharts, Google searches (my God, the Google searches), concepts and even performed two methodologies for an idea I probably won't go through with. So far my "genius" ideas include:

• Violent women in film (this obviously branched off with more specific concepts but cbf. This will probably happen with the next few ideas too)
• Teen literature and the influence on teens 
• Creativity and it's place in the world
• Jane Austen, her message and place in the world both in past and present. 
• Feminism, feminism, feminism, post-feminism, post-feminism, second wave feminism, third wave feminism, neo-feminism annnddddddddd feminism. 

Now the Jane Austen one led me to the question: What makes a man, a man? What are the qualities that make you a man? Do you have to pass a test? Go through a specific rite of passage? What in a guys life could influence the man they become? What do girls think the ideal man is? Why do they think that?

And so on and so forth. So here is what I pretty much did today:

Hopefully my subconscious isn't too hard to read (or my writing). So basically near the end of my session (which went for about 2 hours), me and teacher evaluated my poor representation of my brain. We cut down. A lot. So I was left to two ideas:

1. The ideal man - The female ideals: The Tall, Dark, Handsome and BROODING. The rising popularity of the tortured soul and it's appeal to women. Some kind of study on the angsty fictional men that females seem to love these days. E.g. Edward Cullen (Twilight) , Angel (from Buffy), Mr Darcy (Pride and Prejudice) etc.
2. The socialisation of boys: The virtual social life of young adult males. Looking into socialisation on virtual online role-playing gaming. Social gatherings in places that specialise in providing rows of computers for gaming. The ability to play with someone in India. The homogenisation of socialisation. 

But now I'm left with the dilemma of: 

WHICH FREAKING ONE?!?!?

I love the idea and concept behind both and would thoroughly enjoy the primary research for each. Content analysis (watching movies and noting stuff), observation (Just watching [inter]actions of people in their natural environment to find any particulars or patterns) and MORE!

I need to submit my question by the end of the school day tomorrow and email my teacher.