Daily Creates: June 1 – June 7th
#tdc2157 Can you make a more boring video?
This daily create tasked me with making a more boring video than paint drying on a cardboard box. While the video was boring for the most part, they still included music, text, as well as changing the scenery. I decided that for a video to be more boring, it would require less engagement on a viewer’s senses. I therefore decided to remove the audio from the image and chose to film something as uninteresting as possible, being my wall.
Providing a video that is fully static, I removed the viewer’s dual-channel processing, therefore making the video as least engaging as possible. This task made me have to think of what would go against the learnings of the class, in order to make the video un-engaging.
#tdc2103 It’s Fast
This daily create tasked me with showing a video or animation of something that is fast. The first thing that came to mind for me was a cheetah. I find this video of the cheetah is interesting, because it moves so fast that it overloads a viewer’s visual processing. It is only when the video slows down that you can see that all four of the cheetah’s legs do not touch the ground at certain points in time.
#tdc2193 Your Birth: Number 1 Hit in the U.K.
This daily create tasked me with sharing the number 1 hit in the UK on my birthday. It turns out that the song that was most popular on my birthday was a mock version of spirit in the sky. I didn’t know that this cover actually existed, as I don’t think it was popular anywhere other than the UK, but it is interesting nevertheless. I find this one a bit more difficult to relate to course material, but I think that it could be seen as a form of storytelling be relating my birthday to a song that came out at the time.
Reflection
Completing this week’s daily creates provided me with some insight into how sensory input can affect one’s cognitive load and visual processing. Unlike more isolated sensory inputs such as text, audio, or images, video is much more capable of causing cognitive overload. Similarly, it was interesting to think in the opposite direction and have to decide how to make a video as unengaging as possible. I realize that in some instances, it may be beneficial to remove certain aspects of a video in order to focus the viewer’s attention entirely on a specific feature.