My reflection is about a TED talk called The Art of Creating Awe. From this TED talk I found out how the brain works. When we're infused with awe or enthusiasm, it changes and alters our perceptions of things. It can change what we see or what we remember. When we see things that amaze us, it can change what we remember. For example, the first rocket launch. First you see the real video of it and it feels amazing and real to you. Then you watch another video of the rocket launch and it still looks real to you and it still feels as amazing as the last time you saw it, but it really turns out to be fake. Instead what your reacting to was a big tin can, fire, fire extinguishers, and close up, long distance shots.
It seems that once you think something is real you transfer everything that you feel about it, and it's totally artificial or make believe, but not to you. Take the movie Hugo for example. The movie itself is about film illusions. It's about how our brain is tricked into seeing a persistence of vision that creates a motion picture. In the movie you'll see a train moving, but it's all false. The trick is, if you have a camera that's moving with a moving object, what isn't moving appears to be moving and what is moving appears to be stopped. In Hugo the train is not moving, it's the floor.
This topic appeared to be very interesting to me because I found out a few facts on how the brain works toward things like film and animation. These tricks that movie makers pull in the movies, I believe are genius.