A time where I had to explain the impact of a song would be trying to explain the meaning
behind It would be “Through da storm” by Polo G to my mom. She is always wondering what
types of music and shows I have been interested and why, so when I try to explain the music
of rap music to a person from a time where rap was not very respected can be difficult. Rap
gets a rep that it is mainly about crime or hate, when a lot of rappers use music to escape or
write down emotion which is what helped her understand. The challenges that erode were
obviously her being religious and not wanting to hear rap, her being from a time where it
wasn’t respected, and her getting passed all of the cussing to listen to the actual message. I
think that my explanation changed once I realized my audience was older than me and a bit
more proper, I had to use less slang and more respectful for her to understand. I think I have a
difficult time explaining thing to adults and I find it easier to explain things to children. The
challenges I am facing with communicating my analysis is putting my thoughts into words. It
is hard for me to find what is most important to say. Just recently I had to explain a bible verse
to a group of people all age ranges, I felt that that was easy for me because I could relate to the
verse. I think this went well because the verse resonated from my heart so I think the people
could feel what I was saying. I think the challenge I faced was since there was all different
age ranges was to make it where everyone was interested, I did not want to be too simplistic
or use a language to challenging.
The most challenging part of communicating my analysis of a work of art, literature, or
music, is finding the words to emphasize what it means to me, while explaining the parts I
know will interest my audience. For example, I tried to explain to a friend how Instructions
Not Included impacted me and the hardest part of explaining it, was trying to find the right
words to describe the absolute beauty in the film that caused me to become emotional
watching it. Since my friend is my age, but has no kids, I had to find another way to make it
appealing. For men and a younger audience, I would explain the comedy in the film rather
than the emotion behind it.
It is easier for one to be on the spotlight as most people wants to know the ways of living
outside of the United States. Most people are eager to know about different cultures and
heritages. Therefore, as an immigrant, audience are mainly adults who have great interest in
learning about the African culture and perception of life. There are challenges one faces when
trying to explain the culture differences in African as most people have a stereotype mind of
Africa as a poor state and as well a country and not a continent. d
d d Besides having challenges in explaining the different cultures in African as a whole, I had
a bit of a schooling with some friends of mine about the purpose and reasons for a female to
have waist beads on. It was challenging for me because they already have the idea that the
waist beads are such of a fashion and are supposed to be worn above the clothing, they have
on rather than it/them been hidden underneath the clothing. But with the help of their
curiosity, I was able to have their attention and explained to them that the waist beads in my
culture are meant for seduction, they are worn underneath the females clothing and can only
been seen by their spouses as a sign of seducing their partner. The beautiful colors of the
beads laying around the female waist most likely brighten the sculpture of the female
body/figure that attracts the eyes of the owner/spouse.
At the end of my explanation, I was able to give much better understanding to my
friends/audience and since then, their waist beads were never worn for fashion as they were
never seen outside of their clothing, but rather as I have taught them according to my culture
and traditions.
There was a time when I tried to explain this tv commercial that I had seen that made me have
an emotional response. I laughed at myself for crying at this commercial, especially since I
was unaware of what was being advertised but stayed more focused on the message relayed. I
started to talk with a coworker about my "tv commercial breakdown" and began to recreate
what I remembered. At first, when I began explaining the commercial, it seemed to be going
well, as I described the opening scene of an animated father teaching his son how to ride a
bike. However, some challenges arose when I attempted singing the song that played in the
background as the commercial continued. I remember some of the words that touched me the
most, but not all of them. I had the wrong pitch, even though I could hear it in my head, but
overall, it was not the same without the song and images playing together. So, I resorted to
Google and found the tv commercial based on some simple lyrics I remembered. To my
surprise, it was an "Uncle Ben's- Original Rice TV Commercial called "Life Lesson." As we
watched the commercial, she began to nod her head in agreement with what I assumed was
what I had attempted earlier. After it played, she began to express her thoughts, which aligned
with some of my similar thoughts. We agreed that the parent or even a trusted adult in a
child's life has an enormous responsibility to set positive examples and help guide them. We
also shared that this promoted positive masculinity healthily as the father was emotionally
intelligent to realize his behaviours directly impacted his son. That was a great moment as
that commercial created a space for connection and seeing similarities in each other, despite
our cultural backgrounds and lifestyles.
A time when I had to explain the impact of a show would be when I was telling my coworkers
about a recent episode, I had seen from the show Rick and Morty. All most all my coworkers
are not familiar with this show, or any type of shows like it. Explaining the impact of work
was a struggle. There is a huge age gap between most of my coworkers and I, at least 25 years
if not more. Therefore, the language and jokes they use in this show does not resonate with
people of that age group very well. Once I realized I needed to change my explanation based
on the audience I was addressing, things went a lot smoother. I used less "slang" terms to
describe the show and they all understood much easier.
While explaining the impact of the work, I think the hardest time I had was trying to put the
art into words. For example, trying to explain how something sounds like a season, or how a
piece of art makes you feel, you cannot just say “it makes me feel at home.” You must find a
way to explain exactly what “home” feels like. The main challenge for me was trying to not
over-explain things, when I am writing sometimes, I forget that I already said the same thing
earlier in the paragraph. Based on my audience, I realized I had to be clearer about my words
in my analysis and stick to the main key points and not just venture off with “word-fluff” in
my paper.
The perfect thing that comes to mind for me is the Twilight movies that gained cult-like
following back in 2008 upon its first movie release. My boyfriend had only seen the first film
and only bits and pieces so he was not too familiar with the whole story as he had also never
read any of the books. When explaining the impact of the films personally as well as globally,
he found it hard to understand why so many people had become obsessed with the series
seemingly overnight. I had to explain to him that many of the underlying themes represented
real-life human experiences for a very large demographic. Curiosity in the unexplored and the
supernatural, the struggles of a teenager, the struggles of divorce, the need for family, the
dangers of love and depression, death and the yearning for immortality, all prominent and
semi-relatable underlying themes. Most people think of Twilight as a teen love story and hot
werewolves and vampires but it takes some deeper thought to uncover all its true story. I
found it easier to explain to him due to having read the books a million times and knowing the
story well. Due to him not being well versed on the series, I was able to go in the greater
detail that helped him to understand the significance of the films for the masses and gain
insight into why it became as popular as it had.
I remember a time where I was trying to explain a ballet titled "Giselle" to a friend who was
not a ballerina. It was a challenge to explain it because ballets are historically hard to follow.
They use only words and use movement to describe the story. Ballet has many moments that
translate to words that ballerinas know but the average person would not. So that was the
biggest challenge, trying to explain how a story in conveyed through movement. My
"audience" was someone that was aware of ballet, but not aware of how ballets express
stories. They were close to me however so I felt comfortable engaging in an informative
conversation with them.
A time when I experienced an issue while trying to explain the plot of a movie to my parents
and grandmother. The movie, tennet, was a movie about the prevention of World War 3. This
movie was a bit difficult to understand for me and the group of people I saw it with, never
mind trying to explain it to others. The biggest, most confusing part to explain was their use
of time travel. Having the ability to go back in time multiple times during one fight to try and
change the outcome. This was very difficult for them to understand so trying to explain the
plot of the movie without trying to explain every detail about time traveling was much easier
to understand. If I were telling the story to a close group of friends that are interested in the
same type of movies they would likely better understand the plot of the movie.
Communicating to a specific audience can be difficult because it's not just about choosing
words that your audience will understand, but also about conveying the information in a way
that captures their attention and convinces them that your argument is important. I've
mentioned before in this course that one of my favorite pieces of literature is a pamphlet
called "The 7 Day Mental Diet" by Emmet Fox, and I stand by that. I still believe, to this day,
that one of the best things a person can practice to change their life is a positive outlook. I had
tried discussing this to some of my friends at one point, but unfortunately it didn't quite land
with them. I feel that I did a good job at explaining the impact of the work. My friends always
know me as someone who has a positive vibe and a sunny outlook on life, so explaining to
them the importance of positive thinking in that regard wasn't terribly hard. I think the biggest
challenge that arose was trying to convince them that it was worthwhile. Most of them didn't
think it was a worthwhile thing to practice, or simply didn't care at all. It taught me a very
important lesson about making sure to build a convincing argument as opposed to simply
saying that something is true.
Finding the right audience can be difficult. Sometimes the people that get the most out of your
research is not who you expect to. I have always found myself struggling with whom to gear
my work to. I can usually tell if I need to, well honestly, dumb it down or not. I tend to
explain things how I see them, and people are often surprised at how I view the world. I seem
to have a habit of holding back what I presenting to anyone.
I wrote a small essay for my friend about why I adored two characters in a movie, and I just
let go. The friend read it, coming back to me in absolute tears and told me she had no idea I
had all that inside of me. I did not know I was going to affect her that way and she decided to
watch the movie. She has since come to me and told me she sees the movies about the
characters so much differently than she would have without me.
If you asked me to explain my essay to someone else, I would have to adapt it. I would
probably take out most of the emotional feel of it due to my own issues. I know that an
audience perception will change based on gender and education level. Explaining to my
friend leaves me open to deepen our relationship.
Throughout this project, the challenges of trying to communicate my analysis of the literature
and the music were ever-present. It was not because of the lack of information available; it
was mostly because I was so focused on presenting my points and ideas in such a way that my
selected audience could understand. The impact of the work was there, however, I felt that it
was incumbent upon myself to be able to articulate the impact that the theme provided in the
best way.
Because of this challenge, I found myself toiling over sentence after sentence -- rereading and
thinking, constantly asking myself: "Does this make sense?" Because my explanations were
geared toward college students such as myself, I felt that I had flexibility with the terms and
comparisons that I had made; but still, I could not communicate too eloquently for fear of
losing my audience's attention.
All in all, though challenging, I enjoyed completing the rough draft. I am eager to hear inputs
and make corrections.
Analysing a particular work and then presenting it to a particular audience is a tough task. As
the type of audience differs, and their ideologies also vary, it becomes all the more
challenging.
I remember a time when I was trying to explain the impact of the Netflix specials of Bo
Burnham to my brother. He is one of my favourite comedians. However, the explanation of
the impact did not go well. It was mainly because I was not able to communicate it in the right
way so that my brother could understand it properly (Meyer et al., 2016).
During the process of explaining the impact of the Netflix specials of Bo Burnham, I
encountered several challenges. One of the major challenges was that I lacked confidence. I
kept thinking about whether I would be able to articulate the impact and present it in the right
way or not. It made me more confused (Meyer et al., 2016). In my mind, I was constantly
struggling to form sentences and kept thinking if it would make any sense or not. I was trying
to explain some of the jokes of Bo Burnham to my brother. However, he did not have any
idea about him. He neither knew who the comedian was nor was he familiar with his style of
comedy. This made things more complicated as well as challenging. As I was not able to
communicate the impact in the right manner, some of the jokes even seemed to be offensive
to my brother. I also tried showing a video clip of his comedy to my brother. However, by that
time, I had already messed up things. As my brother was not able to know that the comedian
was trying to be sarcastic, he did not find the video to be funny and could not enjoy it. The
lack of familiarity with the jokes of Bo Burnham made it difficult for my brother to
understand it or find it interesting.
As I was explaining the impact to my brother, who is just one year younger than me, I made
use of too simple terms. The language of communication was also very informal and casual. I
could have explained the impact better if I had made use of some better words and a semi-
formal tone. However, owing to the relationship with my brother, I used a very casual tone as
well as language. Even though the process was challenging, I enjoyed it a lot.
One challenge I have faced while trying to communicate my analysis is creating a clear thesis
statement. I tend to overthink in many aspects of life, and writing is no exception. I want to
create a thesis that does justice to the paper, yet I find it a bit challenging to sum up the main
point of my paper in just one sentence.
My favourite show is One Tree Hill, so I find myself explaining this show to many people.
One specific time was when I was explaining this show to my sister, and it went well overall,
but her being my sister, I figured she did not care much about what I had to say. One
challenge that arose was that like me, she has a hard time watching something someone
recommends to her because she prefers to stumble upon shows herself. This meant that I
needed to try even harder to pique her interest in this incredible show. My explanation was
very thorough. I explained to her the incredible music they pick for this show, and how well
they match the scenes. My favourite part of this show is the love Nathan and Haley have for
each other, so I made that known. Love is our favourite part of any movie, tv-show, etc., so I
believe my thorough explanation of the magical love this couple shares was the main selling
point of my explanation. This worked, as One Tree Hill is now one of her favourite shows too.
When I was telling my best friend about the composition, I studied by Beethoven, he
automatically knew about the composition and personal characteristics of Beethoven and his
struggles with being deaf. My friend also mentioned the invention of several instruments he
incorporated in his symphony such as piccolo, contrabassoon. It was easy to discuss this
composition, because my friend was aware of this famous composer. I spoke in simple
terminology with my friend and we had rather interesting discussion.
Analysing work and presenting on a specific audience basis has a lot of scenarios to evaluate.
Audiences are of different types. The ideology differs from one person to another. When the
work has proposed or performed, different feedbacks were attained. The work was based on
social relationships of same age people and its difference from age to age. The book "The
Kite Runner" was explained as an example and connection between Hassan and Amir was
detailed along with other characters. But priority given on other characters were evaluated
individually by one person to another on gender or a community basis. Main challenges are
following: Conveying ideas equally to people, certain parts of work must be altered based on
education level of people, and it is observed that people close to the narrator are more likely
to support views even though they are biased in the projected scenario.
I think the most difficult aspect of this project so far is reading and analysing the resources. It
has been pretty time consuming up to this point. Additionally, I sometimes struggle with in-
text citations, so this part of the presentation is probably the most challenging for me.
Recently, I read the book It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover, and I wanted to recommend it
to my mother. I feel that I was able to successfully sell her on reading the novel. I described
what I enjoyed about it as well as how quickly I read it. The most challenging aspect of
describing the book was trying not to add too much information so that I did not spoil it for
her. It was difficult for me to describe the basic idea of the novel instead of the major plot
points, as I wanted to discuss the novel with someone. My explanation changed a bit as I was
describing the book to my mother because I know that my mom and I have similar tastes
when it comes to books, movies, and TV shows. I thought that telling her what I personally
enjoyed about the book would encourage her to read it, seeing as we like similar pieces of
media.
Watching a movie, observing a piece of art, reading a book, or listening to a song; might be
easy to interpret when doing it on our own. It is a different story when explaining those
artifacts to other people. For example, my 12-year-old son and I love watching movies, and
we often find ourselves expressing how the movie made us feel and sharing observations
about the film. I once had to explain to him the impact of the similarities between Harry
Potter and The Lord of the Rings. The first thing that I said to answer his question was that the
writers of both films were from the same country and that both movies were in fantasy. While
thinking and analysing my answer, I realized it was not enough explanation for a 12-year-old,
so I thought of a better way to describe the similitudes between the two movies, which was a
little challenging. Subsequently, I decided to start breaking down the movie's plot. For
instance, I told him that Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings develop in a world that we
know nothing about, a fantasy world that can only exist in our imagination. However, I
encouraged him for these explanations to not let them negatively impact his love for fantasy
movies. Thankfully he is still a big fan of fantasy movies! I then understand that for an
audience of this age, it would be better just to put it into simple words than going into facts
and detail. Regardless, I always tell my kids the complex version and then explain it in a
plainer version for them.
Looking at the two articles that I have chosen to research for this class, I would think that my
best audience would be involved in the arts. While that may seem like the obvious answer, I
think that being able to interpret both the sculpture and the piece of music I have chosen takes
a special person that odd open to things and able to see outside of the box. I believe that
presenting these artifacts to someone outside of my targeted audience would pose as a
challenge because they may see things in black and white, while not being able to hear the
inner beauty and true meaning of the song, or the sculptors’ thoughts and feelings into his
creation.
I have tried explaining several things to people who just did not get it, but one that sticks out
to me was a documentary I had watched about a hotel in California that was deemed as cursed
because of the terrible things that had happened there over the decades. I tried explaining the
documentary to a friend, all while explaining the different situations that had occurred there
(murder, rape, disappearances) however the friend could not understand nor comprehend the
idea of a place being cursed. While I can certainly understand what she is saying, the point
was that I was trying to explain th ins to her with examples only for her to prove that she
would not be a good target audience for this type of movie based on her reactions.
Oftentimes, I will make references to videos I watch, or stories that I have heard from my
friends and family. A specific example is when I am talking with my mother as we are driving
through country lands, I will speak of folklore that I have heard about, as the surroundings
invoke thoughts of the stories or videos of stories I heard. My mother is extremely sceptical of
anything outside the realm of reality, so I tend to recount the stories in a more scientific view
for her to understand and believe them better. This may include giving psychological
reasonings for the beliefs in groups of people, comparing our knowledge with others’
knowledge, and giving contextual insight as to where these stories originated from.
Sometimes this approach still does not have an impact on her, as it does with me, but one
example I gave of Native American legends did seem to pique her interest due to the story
sharing similarities of her ethics, morals, and religious beliefs which invoked an emotional
response rather than a logical response.
As per this class: The most challenging thing in presenting my analysis to the audience is
keeping them engaged and not bored. Anyone can put words to paper, but it is how you
express your thoughts on that paper that will keep them reading.
As a mom, it is hard to explain certain things to my children. They are ages 13 and 10. When
explaining music to them, such as let us say musical soundtracks from movies. We all have
that one movie soundtrack that makes you happy, sad, angry, and emotional all at the same
time. The Movie “The Greatest Showman” for instance, explaining the story line in this
musical was challenging for me when explaining to my 10-year-old. He loves music, he loves
this movie. He loves how the music flows and how it makes him feel goosebumps all
throughout the movie. For those of you that have never seen it or know about it. It is a musical
film based around the circus. At the beginning you see a wealthy family and a poor family,
the wealthy family didn’t want their daughter with the poor boy. As the movie went on, they
ended up together and he tried to give her the world that he thought she wanted, but she was
happy just making their little family. So long story short, the man decided to start a circus,
bringing in all “walks of life”. For example, the bearded lady, the tattoo man, largest man, as
well as tallest man, conjoined twins etc…. you get it. Heard it before? Yes, this film is based
on Mr. P.T. Barnum, Barnum’s Circus. It was challenging for me because this film brought a
sense of comfort, meaning and reason for living for these different types of anomalies, when
everyone else said they were “freaks.” When my 10-year-old first seen this movie, it was
music, music, music, it makes him happy, and after a challenging experience of explaining
and not listening. We watched it again a few days later, and he goes “Everyone has a place
and Barnum gave them a place to be accepted and loved. That is awesome! They all became a
family. All it takes is a little love and acceptance.” In that moment, I knew he listened, and I
had gotten through to him.
When explaining to your audience, it is imperative to know your audience. Express your
thoughts in a way that your audience will understand and want to keep listening.
The challenge I am facing right now while trying to communicate my analysis is trying to
make sure my vision is clear and concise for my audience. As I am trying to compare to very
different works of art, one being a painting, while the other being literature. While it is easier
to digest the theme in the literature work of art because you can simply read the literature and
gain a perspective. As with the painting, you have to try and draw conclusion from something
that looks like a mess of colours and figures. A time when I had to explain the impact of a
work from the humanities was last year, a friend of mine and myself were surfing Netflix for
a new binge worthy show to watch, when we stumbled across "Shameless". My friend had
never seen the show and was entirely new to the context of Shameless. As appalled as I was
that he had never seen the show, I began to educate him on the context of the show while
sharing the emotional and mental impacts Shameless brought upon me when it first aired.
Explaining the impact was exhilarating for me only because I love educating and sharing new
things to people. There were no challenges that arose during this specific time for me. My
explanation had changed dramatically because although I was speaking with a friend, I was
also speaking with someone who had no prior knowledge of the show. I had to break down
every cast member, every scenario, and every real-world event that was happening. This
friend happens to be born and raised into the military life and has never seen a show or
witnessed an act of real-life that involved acts of poverty, addiction, sex before marriage, and
vulgar language.
I think the most challenging part of this presentation will be in-text citations. I know what the
definition is, but when it comes to placing it into my work it becomes hard. I really believe I
am over thinking the entire process. I will continue to try to master it. I think another
challenging part will be analysing my thesis statement to make it a little clearer.
d d d I remember the first time my mom got into my truck. I had country music playing, and it is
not something she listens to on the regular. I was listening to Jason Aldeans song Any Ol
Barstool. I must admit he is my favourite country singer. My mom was listening to the lyrics,
well trying to, and assumed he was talking about being at a bar hanging with his friends. I had
to explain to her that he is more less referring to a break-up he went through. The break-up
then led him to realize that he could do bad all by himself. She then understood more of the
lyrics and the meaning behind the song. I would say that the explaining was successful. The
explanation only changed due to cultural background. My mom's age and education did not
affect the explanation at all. The only thing that was challenging was the lyrics to the song to
her. We got that squared away, and now when she gets in my truck, she expects my Jason CD
to be playing. Nothing makes me happier than seeing my mama's smile.
Hope all is well. I find that my main challenge in communicating my analysis of my art
comes from being able to clearly convey my thoughts into writing. I have the ideas in my
head, and it all makes perfect sense there. However, when trying to convert it into writing, I
sometimes struggle with finding the best wording to use.
The last time I had to explain the impact of a work would be when I was telling my girlfriend
about this joke performed by a famous comedian. Explaining it went well because I actually
remembered exactly how the joke went and I was able to describe how I thought it expertly
highlighted a flaw in the world. The challenge that arose, one that is common for myself, was
explaining my thoughts in a clear way. Because my girlfriend is close in age to me, college
educated, and is Cambodian, I felt I was able to explain the joke in detail and also what
exactly it is dissecting from society. The joke had to do with the treatment of Asian-
Americans so I felt it connected to her specifically.
Meyer, J., Song, R., & Ha, K. (2016). The effect of product placements on the evaluation of
movies. European Journal of Marketing.
Here is the link if you are interested in watching it!
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