Thoughts on the 'open brief'

 I feel this one has more to do with time management than actual quality or quantity of the work produced. We have been told to look at our workload over Easter and choose a project based on the time we have left, this is obviously a skill which is at the heart of delivering any animation on time.
The assessment of the situation will also rely on your understanding of the process; and this of course will tell you how much time you can put to do the 'open brief'.
I have a couple of ideas for what i want to do. Firstly; i want to go back to the rudeiments of animation and do something which heavily involves the principles we learnt in the first part of this course. As an animation student i  feel it is important to actually 'animate' as much as possible; and not get side-tracked by learning too much new software (even though this has to be done); so when i come out of this course i can actually 'breathe life into inanimate objects'. The software can wait.
Secondly; the marrage of visuals and sound; research into post and pre synchratic animation. I can see the benifits in both; but i love the idea of having a timeline already in place to animate to.
Well thats my thoughts for a minute; more to follow on the lighting process and the Vj loops. Then there are the literature and film reviews and maybe a bit of drawing; gunna have to be careful with me time....