Media Meditation #2: What're all the Moments Doing?

Let's take a chance to step back,

and look at the individual moments in life.

Moments from Everynone on Vimeo.

This short film, really captivated my attention. It's so compelling, I had to share it. It really captures in a professional way, the idea that life goes on, with it's many complexities and individual moments. This really brings to light the intricacies of day to day life. This clip is a testament to production techniques as a way to question media, as in what techniques are used to get the meaning across. We can look at how this piece uses production techniques by analyzing how its meaning it derived. I identified with how the brilliant cinematography and editing captivate our brains. Or at least my brain.

I definitely encountered emotional transfer, as I thought about the individual meaning of the piece as a whole, derived from the intended value messages from the filmmakers. These are all media education techniques to analyze this piece of media.

To further to get the intended value messages across, which in turn leads to individual meaning, this piece of media uses symbols, as images reoccur of everyday life. This portrayal of everyday life hits home to viewers the persuasive technique of plain folks. this is a film about average people doing what they do, everyone can relate and feel emotion from that.

In terms of my brain, all three sections were pinpointed. A triune brain subdued by a piece of media. With all three sections firing together. Neo-cortex was intellectualizing the film, my limbic was taking in the images and deciphering them into meaning, and my reptilian was affected by some of the more visually shocking images, which play off my instincts.

To relate this to Anderson's Feed, and Postman, these simple and precious moments in life are meaningless in a world full of information overload and digital media. With the quick access to a huge amount of information, it becomes null (dull), meaningless, and irrelevant. Postman said the shift from typography to telegraphy to photography, has created a way to access 'useless' information. This compelling film for me, lets me step back and observe these simple and precious moments in life that we take for granted every day.

This brilliant video affects my brain in many ways, and utilizes many techniques from our power tools to achieve this. It forced me to develop my own individual meaning from the messages conveyed, as I created my own interpretation from watching this short movie.


This video made me think, what's happening around the world right at this very moment?


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