Funny how certain settings around the world can lure you to think about something different than what the plot displays. The feelings one gets when chills of unfamiliar situations are present in front of us that set the barrier of known and unknown. Even the most experienced of people may have moments in which everything is new to them, like in Autopsy Report by Lia Purpura. The author does not only show and tell the new experiences she was faced by, but also what the whole situation felt like from her point of view. “When the assistants opened the first body up, what stepped forth, unbidden, was calm” (Purpura 4). The visuals I get from reading this quote reminds of situations I’m faced with, during an unknown situation. Perfect example, this current semester I was faced with a Computer Science course for the first time in my life. I might as well have been taking a Chinese class or something because coding is really another language.

The relationship between words and images during Dust Off, by Eula Biss and John Bresland, was kind of contradictory but in a way that helped display what the narrator was saying, just in an unexpected way. At about 1:20 into the video, while mentioning a frozen heart after breathing in some toxic air or substance, instead of actually showing what exactly the words were saying, a leafless tree during winter time, in the dark, was shown. Features of Textual vs. Video essay form make possible different forms of expression and discovery because it makes the reader think of other ways what it’s being said can be expressed. Accelerated footage at about 2:22 into the video, gave the feeling of time going by really fast in a way I was not expecting. Personally, with text I begin to look for images that I am familiar with when reading anything, and with video, my brain tries to anticipate what I am going to see while I’m listening to the audio.