Vidal, Vanessa E.

2021-08284
March 17, 2022
ACTIVITY GUIDE 3

Watch your favorite music video while the audio is turned off. Then, in not more than 200
words, describe your experience. Consider the following as guide questions: Did it make you
more sensitive to the visual elements of the video? Were you imagining the melody and/or lyrics
while watching the video? Why or how were you able to do this? Did you find the video less
appealing without the music playing? Why or why not?

Frankly, I realized the visualities of Cherry Wine’s music video by Hozier has actually a deeper
sense. Constantly streaming it yet never did I notice that she, the focalizer, didn’t leave her abusive
partner at the end, which truly unfolds the saddest part. Despite hearing the lyrics in my head,
there were so many details I’ve missed. Now, this denoted what Freud was inferring on
psychoanalysis; how strong is the human consciousness. I’m so focused on my desire for her to
finally leave him that my unconscious mind took over me, though what happened in the ending
was the opposite. It’s relevant to Freud’s concept that human consciousness is persistently
dominated by our underlying thoughts, perceptions, and expectations. I perceived the muted video
as less alluring than usual simply because of lacking in holistic effect, still, the emotion and
sentimentality I have were never really diminished. Fairly adjacent to Reception Theory, notably
the “beholder’s share” insinuating that the spectator conscientiously completes the work of art—
i.e. the music video. Even if I can’t hear the music, I would fulfill the missing lyrics of the video in
my own mind. In essence, all the aforesaid concepts give justice to my experiences.

Refer to the diagram on page 113 of Anne D’Alleva’s book, which illustrates the
interconnections between three “worlds”—of the author, of the text, and of the reader. Think of
a specific experience you have in making art or a similar creative activity. How could it happen
that, while you were creating the work, the work was also shaping your world? Now imagine
yourself as a viewer/audience of an image, a song, or a film. In what ways do you bring your
world to bear upon that of the work? In what ways does the work shape or mediate your world?
Elaborate on your responses in not more than 300 words.
Above all my artwork experiences, the reminiscence of creating a short film for our School Film
Festival would fit the interconnections above-mentioned. It sculpted my world momentarily, not
just because my time and creative juices were put to use, but because midway I realized that while
I was enjoying, I avowed that I can do this as my choice of profession. Thence, I almost took up
Mass Communication after that incident. It even pushed me more after I won Best Film, Best
Director, and Best Cinematography at the Festival. Unfortunately, personal eventualities embarked
that’s why everything was halted. Similarly, when I am simply reading a John Green book of
mine, it moves my world in a way that I make meanings and connections to myself through
reading— the gravity of Reader-response Theory. My pre-understandings in life such as knowing
the giddiness feeling of love, the exhaustion of crying, the pleasure of happiness, or even the
burdensome of responsibilities all give way to make inferences from the series of schemata that I
initially perceive and further situate myself at the scenery of the chapter. I bring my own feelings
and experiences that also gives life and meaning to the book or to the world of the text. Hence, I
become a consumer of that book; the art and its “forms of address” are vividly recognized through
time. Without a doubt, interrelations of these worlds happen simultaneously yet distinctively
through the ‘codes’, despite being matched or mismatched, of the artist, the schemata, and the
spectator.

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Vidal, Vanessa E.
2021-08284
March 17, 2022
ACTIVITY GUIDE 3

References

D’Alleva, Anne. "Psychology and Perception in Art." Methods and Theories of Art History,
Laurance King Publishing, 2005, pp. 109-121.
Herman, Amy. "How art can help you analyze." YouTube, uploaded by TED-Ed, 04 Oct. 2013,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubEadhXWwV4.
Hozier-Byrne, Andrew. "Hozier - Cherry Wine (Official Video)." YouTube, uploaded by Hozier,
14 Feb. 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdSCCwtNEjA.