{"id":4515,"date":"2014-11-16T11:31:30","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T09:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/?p=4515"},"modified":"2014-11-16T11:31:30","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T09:31:30","slug":"the-zen-tv-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/2014\/11\/16\/the-zen-tv-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Zen TV Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"

1) Watch TV for 10 minutes and count the technical events.<\/h3>\n

What is a technical event? We\u2019ve all seen TV cameras in banks and jewelry stores. A stationary video camera simply recording what\u2019s in front of it is what I will call \u201cpure TV.\u201d Anything other than pure TV is a technical event: the camera zooms up, that\u2019s a technical event; you are watching someone\u2019s profile talking and suddenly you are switched to another person responding, that\u2019s a technical event; a car is driving down the road and you also hear music playing, that\u2019s a technical event. Simply count the number of times there is a cut, zoom, superimposition, voice-over, appearance of words on the screen, fade in\/out, etc.<\/p>\n

2) Watch any TV show for 15 minutes without turning on the sound.<\/h3>\n

For this, I simply muted the volume on the same show and watched the remainder.<\/p>\n

3) Watch any news program for 15 minutes without turning on the sound.<\/h3>\n

4) Watch television for one half hour without turning it on.<\/h3>\n

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This experiment was first proposed by Adam Shand<\/a> who seems to have taken down or buried the article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1) Watch TV for 10 minutes and count the technical events. What is a technical event? We\u2019ve all seen TV cameras in banks and jewelry stores. A stationary video camera simply recording what\u2019s in front of it is what I will call \u201cpure TV.\u201d Anything other than pure TV is a technical event: the camera […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[119],"class_list":["post-4515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestream","tag-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4515"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4518,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515\/revisions\/4518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}