Mini-Project 3: Audio Visual

For this audio-visual project, I chose to bring upon the idea that speaking up when one is stuck, unsure, or in trouble should be encouraged amongst our society, solely due to the reasoning that someone is always out there who can either help you or put you on the path to success. However, the urge of speaking up has to come from the person who is in the struggling state at the time being. Having worked in the technology field for few years now, I always noticed how men overpowered women in the field, ultimately making women feel less welcome and authoritative to speak up when something was not right. Due to this experience, I chose to make this project solely addressing this issue. The video portrays an office-like setting, where everyone is working and two women are specially working on some programming assignment. Both of the females endure struggles in the assignment, however, only one of them chooses to step up and ask others for guidance. The female that does not embrace this as an opportunity to step up becomes frustrated and just stared out the window, showing a sign of her day-dreaming and being clueless of what to do. The other female, however, goes to another female and male co-workers to ask for guidance. The co-workers happily sit down with her to discuss the situation, show her the path to success, and ultimately allow the struggling worker to succeed in their work. This type of a silent film connects very much with the video we watched in class, the small snippet from the movie “They Live! (1988).” While there is directly an intended meaning from the producer’s stance of what the piece of media is trying to convey, the silent concept allows the viewer(s) to create their own meaning from the video piece as well. And that is truly magical. The scenes involving the negativity as a result of putting the sunglasses on verses the positivity in life without anything covering one’s ideas, there are so many meaningful lessons once can understand from those series of event. Similarly, in my audio-visual piece, one can find other important characteristics and items present in the piece to put together a much deeper or different meaning that what my intention was. That is truly the amazing part of art, its abstract and no voice/text explanations allow for a natural understanding, rather than someone commentating each step of the way. In my case, the slogans presented in the end can help the viewer understand the true meaning of the piece.