• 0:00/0:01 – Two people are seen laying on a hammock holding hands. The angle shows their legs and lower torsos, so we can imagine that the camera is showing us the perspective of what one of the people is seeing. On the left side of the hammock appears to be a young man, perhaps in his late teens or early twenties. The camera angle makes it clear that the clip is being filmed from his perspective, so I will refer to him as the narrator. The person on his right appears to be a young woman of about the same age. She has one of her legs crossed over his and her torso is turned to face his right side. Their arms are crossed with one another’s and their fingers are interlaced. The narrator has his left hand laying carelessly on his stomach. Both people appear to be at peace. Past the end of the hammock, we can see a tree full of green leaves, with sunlight and a bright blue sky peaking through the branches. It appears to be early summer or late spring. The narrator on the left of the hammock is wearing shorts and a tee shirt. The girl on the right is wearing shorts as well with a long sleeve shirt. Both people are wearing bright colors and their styles appear modern. Both people are barefoot. These details suggest that they are happy and don’t have any sort of worries on their minds. They both seem to be comfortable with each other as well as there are no signs of tension in their body language. 
• 0:01/0:02 – The camera angle changes and shows the girl from the first clip laying on the hammock, looking up at the sky and then turning her head to face the camera. She turns to her left, signifying that she is looking at the boy laying next to her and the video is still being shot from his perspective. She has a carefree, almost dazed smile on her face, indicating she feels at peace. She is not wearing any visible makeup and her red hair is pulled back in what appears to be a messy braid, giving her a look of youthful innocence. The sun is shining on her and she looks happy as she looks at the boy lying next to her, presumably her boyfriend.
• 0:02/0:03 – In this clip, the setting changes completely from what we remember from the previous frames. It opens from the perspective of a man, assumingly the same one from the hammock clips. The camera angle is facing/the narrator is looking downwards at a sidewalk with green grass on either side of it. We can see his leg in the frame as well as the legs of two people side by side on the sidewalk in front of him. All three appear to be wearing athletic sneakers. We can see these people’s shadows as well, which tells us it is a sunny day, and we can also tell by the positions of their shadows and the way their legs appear to be moving that all three people are running. The camera pans upwards, and we can now see the full bodies of the two people running in front of the narrator. They are both males and seem to be about the same ages as the other characters, most likely in their late teens. We can see more of the scenery as well and it is clear that the characters are in a park. The weather and season seem to be the same as the first clips, with a blue sky and green leaves on the trees. 
• 0:03/0:05 – In this clip, we are now indoors in what appears to be a family room. As the clip opens, the viewer’s attention is automatically focused on a T.V. screen in the center of the frame where a virtual soccer game is being played. Between the camera and the T.V., we can see a pair of male hands holding a video game controller. The angle suggests that once again the camera is filming from a man’s perspective, and based on the height of the angle, he appears to be sitting on a couch. There is a table in front of him with a pizza box and a rectangular wooden box with a remote controller and some other random objects. The camera angle rotates to the left as the narrator turns his head, and we can see more of the room. There is a keyboard, what appears to be paintings on the wall, a bookshelf and stacks of books in the corner of the room. There are two windows with the curtains drawn and sunlight coming in through the shade. As the perspective continues to pan to the left, the T.V. is no longer in view and we now see two boys who appear to be in their late teens. One is sitting on the couch to the left of the narrator, and he is also holding a video game controller. The second boy is sitting on a chair to the other boy’s left. Both are looking at the T.V., and the boy holding the controller appears to be very focused on the screen and slightly anxious, with pursed lips and raised eyebrows. Both boys are leaning forward towards the screen rather than laying back and relaxing. The boy farther from the narrator has his mouth open in what appears to be excitement and is waving his hands up and down. He turns towards the other boy and nudges his shoulder with his elbow while the boy on the couch turns toward the narrator, makes a fist with one of his hands, and seems to be yelling in excitement. Both of the boys seem happy.
• 0:05/0:06 – This clip shows three people holding what look like toy microphones. There is a fourth microphone at the bottom of the screen that looks like it is being held by the narrator. The are two young women, one to the right and one in the center of the screen. They are both holding the microphones to their mouths and have their eyes closed and their mouths wide open. They appear to be singing loudly. There is a young man to the left of the screen who also has his mouth open, but he does not appear to be singing. He has his arm extended forward and is holding a microphone out pointed towards the narrator. All three of the people are standing fairly close to the camera. There is a blue curtain behind them with flecks of yellow light shining on it. The yellow lights are moving, and they seem to be coming from some sort of spinning ball. The room they are in is dark, but there is a bluish green light on the characters. They seem to be at some sort of party, and all of them look like they are having a really good time. 
• 0:06/0:07 – This clip is very short and fast. It opens with a shot looking directly up at the sky, with the tops of trees visible at the bottom and side of the screen and a light fixture visible with a clear blue sky behind it. There is a tennis ball in the air, and as it comes down a tennis racquet appears and swings at the ball. The camera moves with the racquet as if the narrator turned their gaze and shifted their body weight in time with the swing. The clip transitions into another clip as the narrator is now swinging a fishing pole out towards a lake. They are grasping the bottom of the pole with their left hand, and the top of the pole moves from their right hand out towards the open water. The water appears to be a small lake, and trees and other plants are visible to the right and in the background of the clip. There are clouds in the sky but the image is still bright. Everything seems very peaceful and carefree. Nothing seems to be out of place or causing any sort of stress.
• 0:07/0:08 – This clip is visually a stark contrast of the previous. The narrator now appears to be in a bar. It is dark in the room, but there are some multi-colored string lights in the background as well as a light up cocktail sign. There is a pool table taking up the majority of the frame, with a dim overhead light above it. The narrator is standing by the corner of the table holding a pool stick. The redhead girl from the hammock clip who the narrator is most likely dating is standing towards the other end of the table holding a pool stick along with a glass beer bottle. There are two other people around the table as well, also holding drinks, and the three of them are looking down at the table watching as the narrator shoots the cue ball and makes a red ball into one of the pockets. There are still several other balls on the table, so it is clear that the friend group is in the middle of the game. The clip changes, and the narrator is now standing in front of the girl with the red hair. She is looking up towards the camera at him, and she moves her hand over her mouth as she smiles and laughs, once again giving her a look of carefree innocence. The other two characters are visible in the background as well, as one of them smiles while the other reaches out to her, probably for a high five. They all seem like they are having a good time with one another, drinking and playing pool with people they are clearly comfortable with. 
• 0:08 – This is another very short clip. It takes place outdoors in the daytime with a bright blue sky and trees with green leaves in the background. The narrator’s arm is in the center of the frame, pointing up towards the sky. In front of him there is another boy who is jumping up with his hands in the air, shooting a basketball as the narrator attempts to defend his shot. The camera angle moves upwards as the narrator follows the basketball with his eyes. Both boys are wearing short sleeves and it appears to be spring time. 
• 0:08 – Once again, this clip is incredibly short. It takes place while the sun is setting, with a city skyline in the background. The narrator appears to be on some sort of rooftop. There are several characters standing in front of him, all with smiles on their faces. One of them appears to be clapping. It is not clear what exactly is happening in this clip, but it is clear that everyone is happy. 
• 0:08/0:09 – Here the narrator is underwater in a pool. The clear blue water is moving around him as the characters splash in the pool. The narrator resurfaces and we can see that he is in a backyard with his friends, at least one of them in the pool with him and two sitting outside on a lounge chair and the pool edge. 
• 0:09 – This clip takes place back in the same bar from earlier. The narrator is standing in a circle with a few of his friends, and once again they all seem to be smiling and having a good time. They are all holding drinks and they clink their glasses together in the middle of the circle. 
• 0:10/0:12 – In this clip, the narrator places his empty glass down on a table before grabbing his car keys. The camera angle then moves upwards as he looks away from the table and looks at himself in the mirror. This is the first time we see the narrator’s face. He is not smiling like you would expect from the rest of the clips. Instead, he looks tired, dazed, and unsure as he gives himself a slight nod in the mirror. We can see in the background that he is still in the bar and several of his friends are around, but not in the narrator’s vicinity. 
• 0:12/0:14 – Here, the narrator is now outside and it is dark. He is looking down at a grey car and pulls the handle of the driver’s side door to let himself in. The viewer knows from the previous clips that the boy is intoxicated and should not be driving, so this scene feels tense. 
• 0:14/0:15 – In this clip the boy makes eye contact with himself in the rearview mirror. His eyelids are droopy and he looks exhausted. He definitely does not appear to be fit to drive. 
• 0:15/0:17 – This clip shows the narrator’s view as he is driving down a city street. It is most likely the middle of the night, and although the area looks like it would typically be well populated, there is almost nobody else around other than one car on the road that is coming towards him in the opposite lane. We can see on the dashboard that the narrator is only driving at about 20 miles per hour. He is driving through an intersection with a green light, but at the last second, the car coming towards him decides to make a left turn right in front of him. Because he has been drinking, his reaction time is delayed, and he does not seem to hit the break. The clip ends before he hits the other car. 
• 0:17/0:19 – Next, the screen goes completely black for a couple seconds. This gives the viewer the impression that the narrator is unconscious, based on the results of the previous clip and how it is implied that the two cars collided. 
• 0:19/0:22 – The next several seconds consist of many of the previous clips playing out in reverse. The car scene plays, but in reverse so that both cars are moving backwards, away from one another. Then there is a clip of the narrator holding hands and walking in the grass with his girlfriend, clearly from the same day as the hammock clip because she is wearing the same clothes. This clip is also in reverse as the two characters appear to be walking backwards. There are shots of a beach with the waves retracting towards the ocean that once again shows these clips are in reverse. Then the screen lights up with a quick flash of orange and yellow light. There is another shot of the boys playing basketball, this time with the character dribbling the ball rather than shooting. Then, the same clip from earlier plays of the boy opening his car door. This one is not in reverse, however there is then another flash of orange and yellow light, before we see a different view of his car. In this one, he is standing further away from it, approaching it and unlocking it with his key. There is an image of the side of his girlfriend’s face as he tucks her hair behind her ear at the beach, there is an image of the sky as he looks up at it through trees, there is another flash of orange and yellow light, and imagine of a hand on the trunk of a tree, all of these images come in short bursts. We then see exit signs as the narrator appears to leave the bar, and then the same clip from earlier plays of him setting down his glass on the table next to his car keys. Finally, there is a longer clip of the narrator’s girlfriend blowing the seeds of a dandelion towards him. They appear to once again be on the hammock. This clip feels much happier than the previous ones, and it is interesting because dandelions are typically a symbol of hope and resilience. 
• 0:22/0:24 – This clip once again shows the narrator in the bar, looking down at a table with his empty glass, but this time his car keys are not in view. Instead, he is holding a cell phone, and the screen of which makes it clear that he ordered an Uber or some other driving service to come pick him up. It shows a map with his location and says that the driver will be arriving in six minutes, which then ticks down to five before he puts his phone down. 
• 0:24/0:27 – The words “Buzzed driving is drunk driving.” appear across the screen. 
• 0:27/0:30 – The words “Don’t drive buzzed.” appear.

In this video, the filmmakers use a combination of visual techniques, narrative structure, and symbolic imagery to communicate the dangers of impaired driving, specifically addressing the consequences of “buzzed driving.” The initial series of clips presents a carefree and joyous atmosphere, with the narrator engaging in various activities with friends and a romantic partner, such as lounging in a hammock, playing basketball, and enjoying a social setting. These moments are shot from the narrator’s perspective, helping the audience connect with his sense of happiness and freedom. The vibrant, sunlit scenes evoke a sense of youthful innocence. However, this lighthearted mood shifts as the narrator transitions to a bar, where the mood grows more tense and the camera emphasizes his signs of intoxication. The filmmaker deliberately contrasts these two tones, using the darker, more somber bar scenes to highlight the shift from carefreeness to recklessness. The pivotal moment occurs when the narrator is seen preparing to drive, intoxicated, and the camera lingers on his fatigued expression, suggesting that he is unfit to drive. The reverse footage that follows serves as a powerful rhetorical device, symbolizing the possibility of rewinding time and making a different, safer choice. The flash of orange and yellow light throughout these sequences represents a moment of clarity and realization, while the dandelion scene, a symbol of hope, offers a sense of redemption as the narrator ultimately chooses not to drive under the influence. The closing message, “Buzzed driving is drunk driving,” reinforces the film’s core message: driving after drinking, even slightly, can lead to disastrous outcomes. The use of a cell phone to order an Uber signals a positive behavioral change, positioning it as a responsible alternative. Through these narrative and visual choices, the filmmakers effectively use rhetoric to shift the viewer’s perception, urging them to rethink impaired driving and make safer decisions.