Fear and My Expectations

After giving my deepest darkest fears some serious thought, I started to realize and give the effects of fear some deep thought. This train of thought sent my mind running from here there and everywhere in between. It wasn't so much as to what is going to cause the initial emotion/reaction of fear that I was interested in. When I, or really anyone from my experience, experiences the effects of fear, I or they tend to miss some major points or pieces of the puzzle. What I am getting at is our mind, as was talked about in class, goes into a fight or flight mode. Once we, humans, are in this mode, our surroundings are not experienced as they would be if we were not in a fight or flight mode. For example, say if one was presenting a very interactive presentation before a class in a normal classroom setting, the audience of the presentation would more than likely pick up on every subtlety and design element of the presentation. Now remove the normal classroom element of just a "normal" new media presentation being given. Add in the effects and the added elements of what fear brings to the table and then present the very same presentation. All of the subtleties of the presentation almost undoubtedly will NOT be picked up on as before.

As for my expectations of how my demonstration will go before the class is yet to be seen. I most certainly think that the emotion/presence of fear and all of its entities will without a doubt heighten the classes overall experience. I predict that they, the class, will be put into a fight or flight type of mode if my ultimate goal is met; scare them to their wits! With this added element the bigger picture will more than likely be missed and just the big obvious clues and surroundings will be picked up on. My number one goal is to exploit the effect of fear and what senses given up when experiencing this emotion and element and also what is gained when experiencing it. I do believe that this will more than likely help everyone in the class start to see things from a much different point of view! Stay tuned to see what the overall effect my experiment will be and its reactions.