product?

This week I have been going over and over in my head about my final product. I am being very encouraged to make an educational video about the emotions of animals and their interaction with humans. I love video and I like editing is a lot of fun, but for some reason this idea scares me. Mainly because I wouldn't know where to start or what it would consist of. I like the idea of a video but I don't know if I have enough to work with to make a good informational yet interesting short film.
Last night, I was reading my favorite book to my sister as I do every night. Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss. Every time I read this book all the hopes I have in life get reassured and I feel powerful. I've always thought that the best way to convey a message is through visual interaction and storytelling. This was a slap in the face about the video idea because videos are exactly that. But what about a children's book? Through my research I came across a lot of dense literature about animals and personally when I want to learn the most important things about something in a very easy manner I look for the children's version.
I'm torn between filming, writing, drawing, and presenting. As I'm writing this more ideas are coming into mind and now I'm thinking 'hey, why not do both?' I could go backwards and make a book based on a film.
This week I have just been focusing on trying to figure out what my finally product should be and this is something I will continue to work on because right now it is the most important task. I have done so much research all along and the experience of living with animals I feel was an entire project in itself. I'm thinking about talking to Garden of Eve and Catapano Dairy about their feelings towards their goats and observing if its true that when you have them as livestock they aren't as meaningful as when they're more like pets. Maybe I'm just too much of an animal lover and got too attached to my goats, or I could be right. This will help guide me in finding if others connect to their livestock the way I did with mine and if they also believe that they have very intricate emotions as well.
My goal to accomplish by next Thursday, October 1, is having a concrete idea of what my product will be. Childrens book? Short educational film? Both? Farm?

Alive

For some reason I have not been able to successfully blog since, well a long time ago. Never fear, I have been blogging all along but I have yet to post them all. Although I really want to just post the remaining blogs from the last two weeks of the project, I am very hesitate to unless they are perfect. I promise by Monday that the entire missing two weeks will be up. As for the aftermath of the project, well that will be up shortly as well. Briefly, I no longer have chickens or goats. And having come back to school I am faced with the question of, "what is my product?" I DO NOT KNOW. When I started this project I wanted it to be a learning experience for myself on how to live with animals and I wanted to show others that we need from them as much as they need from us. Ideally, I want people to believe that animals are just as important, if not more, to this world than we are and we have to work together to save the wonders of this planet. But the research that I started off doing was all on the emotions of animals and their societies. I did this because I figured that the only way I would really get to understand my goats and chickens would be by really connecting with them instead of imposing myself as their "master." This was due to me believing that animals are just as emotional and conscious as humans. But now I think that they are even more in touch with their emotions than we are. What people always refer to as animal behavior is actually animals acting on their emotions, so I think. We tend to think things through and rationalize all our actions, while animals act on pure emotional instinct.
As the question of my product came up, I, for some reason, immediately jumped back wanted to do something with animal's emotions. I do not want to write a paper, not because I don't like to write but because I want my product to be engaging and educational for all levels of understanding. I want to do something that incorporates sustainability, animals, and their emotions.
At the start of the week I had no direction at all as to what I wanted to do, but once I talked to Patty and my mentor they helped guide my thoughts and I realized that what I really want to do is show people that animals are just as "human" as we are. How am I going to go about this beats me.