Is your life a comic strip?
Think back to an event that happened in your life or a movie you just watched. Try to remember what happened. Does that retelling seem remarkably like a comic strip?
I’m reading an article called “Movies in the Mind’s Eye” for my media psychology class. The authors, Hochberg and Brooks, argue that we remember movies in comic strip form. They add “Comic strips may be popular because they approximate the ways in which we think about the visual world.” It’s a technique to help us remember the salient moments without storing the unimportant data.
I’d never really thought about this before, but now that I have I can’t help seeing it as a fairly accurate way to describe memories. Does knowing this affect how we should write? Design advertisements or commercials? Then again maybe we’re already using these techniques — think about storyboarding for movies and advertisements.
