In the article, Family Photograph Appreciation, Richard Chalfen discusses a teenage view of the relation between family snapshots and home videos. He first explains the value of personal photos using an example of natural or humanly coerced disasters and the mourning of visual traces of the past, or in other words, photographs. Family photographs are a very important aspect of peoples lives and without them we may never remember our past. By looking at snapshots, slides, home movies, etc, we stimulate our memory of important dates and events. He asks many questions about memory and video verses photography which will be discussed with teens he has interviewed.
Chalfen has structured an exploratory project that asked a small sample of thirty teenagers, living in the Cambridge/Boston areas of Massachusetts to evaluate the relative merits of using still photography and/or videography as a preferred medium of family photography.
(Richard Chalfen) He conducted the interviews with two teens at a time while having a meal in a small restaurant. He was interested in their opinions on comparing photography and videography, which came out to be very interesting.
The teens explained to him about the effects of video tapes and how they were a way of
“being there” all over again. Some of them felt it was more realistic than flipping through a picture album. Here we will introduce a few more of the theories made by teens during their interviews. Videotapes seem to supply the viewer with more information and makes it easy to remember. You get sound and movement to enhance the overall effect which brings you to see the whole experience. In many interviews the teens did not feel that videos were the best way to go. By looking at photographs it set off a whole lot of memories, not just what happened play by play like a home video. By looking at photographs you can use your imagination and over the years the stories from one picture will grow and change. You don’t have to think when you watch videos but by looking at photographs you search your memory for the details. One girl explained that she can look at photos over and over but watching a video will get boring after a few times. Perhaps we can conclude from this that there is a higher liking of still photographs over videography by most teens. They seem to be willing to put some work into collecting this important information.
To explain the difference, Chalfen discusses some examples, such as the two acting as memory aids in their own significant way.
After reading the directions and topic for this paper, I was extremely eager to get started. Adolescence is a stage of life that is very critical for a person. Speaking from my own experience, I know that the teenage years are a difficult part of life and during these years, one experiences a rollercoaster of different emotions, obstacles, and decision-making. Aside from the topic of Adolescence, I was glad that I could choose which movie I wanted to watch, and that was an easy decision. I decided to watch Sixteen Candles. The last time I watched this movie was when I received the DVD as a gift, which was when I turned sixteen. Watching the movie then, I obviously did not realize that most of the problems and events that occurred in the movie
This film contains some classic examples of the kinds of real life issues adolescents deal with. Issues such as popularity, peer relationships, family/sibling relationships, sex, and struggles with identity are all addressed in this ninety-minute film.
Unger’s lecture explained how each photo represents stories of experiences, experiences shown clearly through Pomerantz’s camera lens.
Have you ever experienced an event that was so significant to you that you felt as if your memory was taking a photograph, keeping the memory implanted in your brain for the rest of your life? This is a prime example of flashbulb memory. Flashbulb memory is a term that pertains to a person’s memory of hearing about extremely shocking events (Goldstein, 2011, p. 209). Flashbulb memory is not the memory for the event itself, but it’s the memory of how the person heard about the specific event (Goldstein, 2011, p. 209). This means that a flashbulb memory includes where you were and what you were doing when you found out about a tragic event (Goldstein, 2011, p. 209). Some key attributes of flashbulb memories are that they are both remembered for long periods of time and are exceedingly vivid (Goldstein, 2011, p. 209). A great way to describe flashbulb memories is to compare them to a photo that never fades, proving how relevant these memories are to those who have them (Goldstein, 2011, p. 209).
The video’s poor quality and many errors detracted from its credibility and made the information that it was attempting to relay questionable. Correcting the narrator’s monotone voice and close proximity to the microphone could greatly improve the quality of the video. The narrator incorrectly refers to charts as tables while discussing the features of the different parenting styles. The information displayed in the charts lacks consistency as one is an adjective, implying qualitative results, and the other is a noun, implying quantitative results. The video contains many misspellings considering the small amount of text onscreen: impulsvie, dicipline, and apposed. The video incorrectly cites Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as the movie clip
Democratic societies are were the people are involved in the decision making of the government and have representation. In Thomas Paine’s Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs, Paine desired for the colonies to go to war against Britain to gain independence, while having the feeling that Britain was exploiting the colonies. Paine explains the disadvantages of the colonies being connected with Britain. In Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Divinity School Address he brings forth a moral argument. He discusses the relationship between man, soul, God, and the church. In Henry David Thoreau’ On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, Henry believes in the act of civil disobedience, in which man does not need the government as much as they think they do. Henry promotes the idea of individuality, in which man could do better than the government in various situations. Thomas Paine, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau, were American writers who generated their own ideas of an ideal American society, where people have involvement with the government or church.
After this event, the atmosphere changes dramatically. It becomes livelier, and there is an old-fashioned feeling, as there is a mouth organ being played in the background. Everybody seems to be having fun, which does make them seem quite a lot more vulnerable, as they are unaware of the danger.
Imagine having the ability to take a screenshot of what one sees. It sounds like photographic memory, that superhuman ability one often hears about on Dateline, movies, and shows. As much as the idea of saving everything one has ever perceived, storing it away like a file in a cabinet, and recalling it at a moment’s notice sounds amazing, it just isn’t plausible. Despite the sensationalism and myth surrounding it, photographic memory is not real. This misconception is often muddled with eidetic memory. Eidetic memory is the ability to recall certain images in great detail for a certain amount of time. After viewing a picture, a person with eidetic memory will retain the image in his or her mind, as if it is still present, floating in space (Berry, 2014). The “catch” about eidetic memory is that these “snapshots” are not stored forever. They eventually fade over time along with the actual ability itself. In 1964, Haber and Haber, two psychologists, conducted a series of studies on eidetic memory and found a correlation between it and age. In their experiments, children were exposed to a detailed picture on an easel for approximately thirty seconds. When the picture was taken away, the children scanned the blank easel in order to recall the image. They described the image in present tense, as if it was still there (Arnaudo, 2008). Haber and Haber found that although it is relatively rare, eidetic memory occurred more in children than adults. But upon further research, it appears there is an explanation to its gradual dissipation as one matures. Eidetic memory is more commonly found in children, because as children grow, their brains develop linguistically, functionally...
How can you be satisfied without remembering the significant memories in life? Memory is the way we function through our day-to-day lives. Without memory we wouldn’t be here today, it is something that you develop to learn overtime. Memory is fascinating and can function and improve in many ways. It is astonishing how we can remember a certain taste, smell, sounds, and objects over a long and short period of time. The memory is very complex and consists of many components. In this essay I will be informing you on how the human memory is critical in our everyday lives.
Admiring an image leads to the misinterpretation of what occurred at that time of the image. Colonial society promotes the capturing of images, thus the colonial belief on life being linear enable the viewer to travel back in time. An example is when Leroy, after discovering that a man took pictures of the Sun Dance, informed the RCMP about the incident and they replied by saying : “ there was little [we] could do about it,[…] the man hadn’t broken any laws” (143). Colonial society thinks nothing is wrong with capturing images, because the process of life is linear and it’s essential to collect data for future references. In addition, the use of technology can now change the image which can change a person interpretation of the image. An example is when Eli knew that, “the paintings and prints on the walls were not the cheap reproductions that the university bookstore sells” (163).the value of an image can be manipulated to satisfy society. Capturing an image is a symbol of society’s control over the values of an
The ideal image of society has changed how women live their lives. Most women no longer feel beautiful in their own skin. The majority of women feel the need to put on make up because they think they wont look pretty if they don’t. Some also think they need to be a certain weight or no man will ever love or marry them. The thoughts of having to be someone your not, to be accepted by society, is horrifying. Who even created this perfect ideal image of a woman anyway? Women are ideally supposed to have a full-size chest, small frame, long hair, white teeth, light eyes, and so on. The ideal image is to make every look like Barbie, instead of a unique individual. With all these expectations whirling around in a girl’s head, it can make her feel
The use of multiple images to propel a narrative allows the audience to learn something through the characters that are there. Bloomer (1990)’s study on visual perception also draws upon Newton (1998)’s concern, as he explores the multiple perspectives and views of the event. By using a series of images, the characters mood and tone can be established throughout different elements of what we see. This may be the people, the place itself or the items within the place. By having a narrative of photographs, the audience has an even deeper understanding of the reality of that moment or event as they see more than just the ‘big picture’ as
As stated before, the author inclines to express his opinion and feelings in the visual. For example, he writes: smartphones close our eyes to the real world and open them only to a screen (Riawan, 2016). This type of language is very powerful when it comes to convincing people to change their minds. The author uses it to encourage individuals to evaluate themselves to see if they feel lonely when being in a public environment and to turn off their phones and go laugh with their friends (Riawan, 2016). Likewise, his words offer what he believes is a solution to the problem presented in the video. Although his message seems promising, it lacks credibility and uses no data nor
From time to time, I like to look at picture from the past to remember and to learn about my childhood past. Some are even taking before color pictures existed,
The forth video is watched is “Aligning 21st Century Learning with 21st Century Learners”. It is a film about the future, the future of our children. No one knows what the future is really going to be like. Today's children will become adults who engage in a world vastly different from what we know today.