On desperation as motivation Writer and Director Ben Berman
I think this interview was quite different from others I've seen, mainly because multiple times Berman says, to not do the same things that he did. I also think the type of lifestyle he lives is very different than what I do anyways so I don't think I would prescribe to his lifestyle. But the one thing that really stood out to me was his motivation for starting the Jonathan doc. To get out of a low place and experience a high. I think I operate the same way sometimes, especially with my senior project. While I am making my VR experience to educate people and break mental health stigmas, it's also a way of releasing how I feel constantly. I'm in not the best place with my depression and I often experience depressive episodes. But with this project and trying to get across what a depressive episode feels like to others it kind of feels like a release. When I work on the project it at times feels cathartic. It definitely was hard when I started doing interviews but I think that by the end of the semester I'll be experiencing the high of it like Berman did with his documentary,