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Uncanny Essay

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For the Uncanny final project, Jessica and I proposed to document the uncanny effects of social media technologies. Our first discussion about what we wanted to portray led us to a difficult decision on what uncanny effects to focus on. I suggested documenting the surveillance aspect of social media and the way our technologies become uncanny when they begin to break down. Only when our technologies begin to breakdown, do we realize our dependence on them; thus, making social media devices uncanny. In the first shot, we decided to input colorful television bars that indicate the television is not working in addition to a static sound effect. This was meant to set the tone for the breakdown of technologies in the video. This shot then quickly …show more content…

In this scene we wanted to show how our phones can easily point us in the direction of where we want to go, but to do this, our phones know where we are. Combined with this scene, the next scene portrays me attempting to catch the bus that my phone had suggested to take to get to my destination. In the next two shots, we used an overlay digital clock text to indicate the passage of time thus indicating to the viewer that our technologies often are not reliable. This ‘breakdown’ of the technology becomes uncanny because at this moment we realize that the technologies that we use to make our lives easier actually show us how dependent we are on them when they do not work properly. The final shot of this video is a long-shot in black and white meant to replicate a surveillance camera. We increased the speed of this shot to indicate the uncanny effect when we realize the uncanny effects of our technologies. Because the world is so fast-paced, we are prompted to use technologies to keep up. However, when these break down, we in turn are slowed down. The inability to keep up to a fast-paced society becomes uncanny because the technologies we use to do so, break down are sometimes actually limit

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