Your Life on Screen from Tom O'Brien on Vimeo.
What are some thoughts and feelings you have when watching your own video?
That this video is drastically different than the one we did last year. Without being able to provide a soundtrack or other tidits, I felt like it was less capable of entertaining people, of keeping their attention. I did what I could. Retrospectively, after seeing Hannah's and John's, I feel that I could have done more.
When you think about living your physical experience being largely what is shown on the video, how does that seem to you?
The thing is, this is not really quite so much of what I do. It is a small piece of my life. I didn't video myself reading or exercising, or just taking a walk, or socializing offline. This is just the relevant information that regards digital things.
Would you want your little sister (or future son) to spend a lot of time doing this stuff?
Heavens, no. I didn't look quite happy, I'd prefer she never do it ever.
What do you think of the contrast between what's happening ON the digital representation device and what you look like interacting with the DRD?
What do you think of ideas like the Wii that are supposed to make this contrast less stark?
I like that things are being take in a new direction, but if it is marketed as a deliberate move that way, it will lose popularity.
Nice try to entertain the audience even though there wasn't much you could have done. I was really disappointed when we weren't suppose to put soundtrack on it. At least yours had some variety.
ReplyDeleteWhy do you think that the fact that the wii's popularity goes down when it is marketed that way? Also were you happy when you were using the digital representations? I would not let my kid do as many hours as i used to but i would not ban from the digital representations. Everyone that played game consoles looks pretty much the same, completely zoned into the game.
I wouldn't know how to develop your video without disregarding instructions, but your written segment should have been expanded, i got the general idea like "deliberate move that way, it will lose popularity." why and how can they market it better? Maybe next time you'll post a better written segment.
Thanks for the unfiltered reactions towards playing Halo, and getting owned. They're certainly the most important aspects of your gameplay. Like John said, I appreciate that you are well aware that this is a video that will be watching, and that you are trying to live up to the standard of videos being entertaining. You being owned definitely met that standard (lawlz).
ReplyDeleteFrom what I can tell, using the computer and playing video games would be your first preference. And instead, you'd rather be "reading or exercising, or just taking a walk, or socializing offline."
At around the seventh minute, your mom says "dinner is ready," and you simply replied by saying "okay" (or "O.K."- I'm not sure). Just this one segment connects to almost all of lives; at least to my life. That "okay" statement is kind of like an automatic program that has been implanted into our heads to immediately eliminate the obstacle; in this case, it would be the nagging of the parents.
One thing that I would suggest is that you trim down your video, but at the same time, retain those moments of QQing. Also, I was wondering what you thought about people not appearing as too happy (like you said third question), but yet keep this consistent motion of logging onto the internet or onto Facebook, or what have you. Do you think that their is a lack in that happy emotion? Or just the expression of that happy emotion? =]
Reading your answer to the first question, combined with reading Esther's post, I feel that my belief about constant entertainment is reinforced. We are always pressured to entertained, or be entertained. In some cases, like you said, we cannot do so without music or any alterations.
Alright, I'm out. Oh, by the way..."I didn't look quite happy"- cause you got OWNED.
To Gavin M,
ReplyDeleteMy man Gavin, I just finish watching your video. It was impressive... 5 stars for your video. I serioud appreciate how you took some of your time and came up with this amazing video. Only you are the genuis one. Your video was pretty funny at some point. Your video started out with you being all serious and shit, just staring into the computer sceen. Then you record yourself playing online game back and forth, but at the last 4 minutes of your video, you recorded yourself playing halo 3, which shows us that technologies these days are so addictive.
Your video shows me that listening to music and playing computer game are kind of boring because you only recorded that for a few minutes. Halo 3 just came out and you're really into it. That shows us that new technologies are always bringing us down because you could have spend your 7 minutes... reading or chilling. And your sister or mother told you that dinner was ready but you were still playing.
It was nice that you added some soundtrack which makes people more entertain. My whole video was about the music and how it flow with my action.
Gavin, your video is truely amazign but to make it better... you could had added me. It is pretty fuck up you left me out of your video.
But good job buddy. i enjoy watchin your video. And that online game you were playing... it is so boring.
Thanks for the comments, much appreciated, even if it's an assignment. I can see that you took your time with your thoughts, and that means a lot. Thank you, Andy, for demonstrating how I got owned. Over and over again.
ReplyDeleteNow, John, I said that because I beleive that the more the consumer knows that they're getting up and quasi-exercising, the less they see it as a game, which is, by definition, something fun. Most people, particularly those who buy videogames, associate exercise with discomfort and ultimately not enjoyable. I feel that if the Wii shows us too much that it helps us get fit, it will lose some of it's "game" aspect.
I know, my written segment had a bit less than it likely should have, but I also felt that by leaving it open ended, I was able to better provide material for comments from you two. Thus, it served it's purpose. Nonetheless, I will flesh out the next written segment further.
Andy, I totally agree with you in that the "okay" has become a pre-programmed response, that we automatically churn it out when something is put forth to us, as we see that people accept it easily. Plus, it's fairly simple to say. Even zombies could probably squeeze it out. OOOooookkkkkkkkaaaaaayyyyyuuugghghuhg.
Ooh, that's actually an interesting question. I think that there might be a mix between not havign the happy emotion and not expressing it. Because we are essentially talking to the screen, we have less need for expression, because we don't need to add any real visualization to our words, as they are only being read. (Ironically, this should logically be a better way to boost our writing skills, how to better conve ya message through writing) So we don't express it as much online. I do think, however, that there are certain times where we are so zoned into the media that we are past reasonable emotion, and we are just part of the electric current of the machine. -.-
but anyway, if you played me, I'd OWN YOU!