The Essence of a Moment

Capturing the essence of a moment is no easy feat. I found that this was a particularly interesting topic touched upon in Dan’s week 11 lectorial.

In terms of creating media, it is so wonderful to have the freedom to create something you are passionate about, because this emotional attachment to your work shines through in the final product.

I think it is unavoidable that remixes often lose the unexplainable “magic” of an original. This may be because we’re hearing sounds we’ve heard before being used in a different way that sounds bizarrely foreign to us.

The same goes for photographs and other media forms. Though you can never get a moment back, occasionally you can capture it in still or video form and feel the same emotions again. Especially with new technology, you can recreate scenes from your life in your head triggered by a panorama shot, a video, even a 360 degree capture of a place (created through taking 100 different shots at different angles and piecing them together in an app). However, recreating this video or photograph at another time will still not produce the same effect.

 I think that often, moments are trapped in memories so no matter how imaginative, creative or altogether wonderful a remix or adaptation may be, it can never produce the same feeling or trigger the same memory, only new ones.

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