I particularly enjoyed watching this video. The text is presented and animated in relation to the title and the meaning of the advert. I feel the text and the way it is shown on its own definitely adds something that a normal Apple advert with acting/dialogue would not, despite how simple it seems. It talks about perceiving things differently – which coincides with the context behind my sound/film being synaesthesia, where people with the condition naturally experience things differently.
Author: hee1g15
Synesthesia, a video by Future Shorts
This short video by Future Shorts presents in visual metaphors how the different senses e.g. taste, sound, colour, words can become mixed together in synesthesia. It could be showing one person’s perspective or many peoples – we aren’t shown this exactly. It’s implied that the taste of the fruit or veg produces a sound, and that words produce a taste; it implements different forms of synaesthesia and not just one. I like how the film progresses – the music speed up and more situations start happening simultaneously. The artistic, avant-garde elements of the film influenced me to make my film personal and somewhat artistic, though I feel that without knowing this film is about synaesthesia, the audience would be a little perplexed by it.
What colour is Tuesday?
My piece will be a reflection of my experience with synesthesia, a condition where the brain essentially mixes up senses. I want my finalised piece to be mostly personal but somewhat informative, so I have been watching videos and researching the condition and the many forms of it. This video from Ted-Ed summarises the condition well in 4 minutes. I may even use some speech from the video in my sound, as the narrator explains it straightforwardly. I can relate to the title’s question since I have grapheme-colour synesthesia, where I see numbers, letters and words in colour. For me, Tuesday is dark red.