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If you've ever wondered where time went whilst sitting infront of a video show. Visual Trance effectively seduced you. The Main Elements of Visual Trance
Repetitive image sequences start to really impact on the viewer and drive home the content being reviewed. Repetitive image sequences or animation with sudden cuts or jolts in movement, jolt the viewer back out of the trance, if the jolt in the animation is shown for a long period of time it becomes a strong and hard hitting visual trance element. Arrays of objects or images give an overwhelming feeling that could be associated mathematics, and theories like the chaos theory and elemental mathematics Flow such as smooth flowing animations help relax, they draw on the feelings and emotions of the viewer, they help them to open up and flow into trance. Colour cycling can be very hypnotic at full screen or used within animation as a visual stimulant. Seamless patterns and movement can be subtle ways to simulate long flowing scenes that nearly take the viewer away. Symmetrical effects are really important in creating compositions that suck the viewer in. The eye loves repetition and it becomes pleasing to watch the symmetrical imagery. I think that this is an important part of a successful video trance composition. Especially when they start to resemble those patterns seen in artificial sleep machines like the Novag Mind Activator, hyper-mathematical graphs including fractals and nature. Rate can be used deviously as a kind of attention magnet. After displaying a repetitive sequence for quite some time, subtly changing the frame rate takes frames out of the animation and away from the viewer. Forcing them to watch more to try to regain the frames per second they have lost. In a study on Imax Films it was found that if a film was cut back to 50 fps. from 60 fps. the viewers would start to concentrate intensely on the screen. Rate is usually used to synchronise video to the beat of an audio track. More experimentation with simultaneous audio and video rate derivation should be experimented with to enhance the trance effect. Interaction -with the viewer to maintain interest even longer. But this may take away from the passive aspect of trance.
The more I look into Trance / Hypnosis and Video, the more I start to hate television altogether. I started this research with the aim to find effective visual elements to induce trance upon a viewer. Then I realised that, with tv, this is not even necessary. When we sit in front of the TV we become passive almost straight away. It started while we were kids, as children we watch our favorite TV shows in the morning and live in these dream worlds, like Pavlov and his dogs we are conditioned to switch off while we are selectively being presented with TV content. Conscious conversation can not happen with the TV so our conscious mind has a break while our receptive subconscious mind takes over, and this is where the damage occurs. Our subconscious picks up all the information that is being selectively presented on the news day in, day out, at the same time slot over and over. Can you imagine what this does to your subconscious belief system? Every time you watch TV and are presented with information in such a passive way you are slowly being literally brainwashed. Oxford dictionary definitions: Trance - As Defined in the Oxford Dictionary. Abnormal state of suspended consciousness, (e.g. of person under hypnotism or in swoon or epileptic fit or intense mental concentration). Hypnosis - Oxford. State like in deep sleep in which the subject acts on external suggestion, artificial sleep. *(I find that a more modern interpretation of hypnotism would find that the subject act just as well from internal suggestion). Sleep - Oxford. The condition normally recurrent every night and lasting some hours in which eyes are closed and the nervous system inactive, a spell of this.. (this definition shows a very general observation).
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