Taxpayers wonder whether the amount spent on students makes a difference. If youreally think about it, yes it does. Ask any parent whose child goes to an expensive school.
Any parent sending a child to an expensive school knows that the amount of taxpayers money spent on schools does make a difference.
There are different types of injuries that happen in each sport. Would youobject if youknew that a surgery performed before any injury occurs could make an athlete stronger?
Is surgery before performance permissible if it helps prevent injury?
Imagine yourbody being consumed by a drug. Youwould do anything to get this drug and youdon’t worry about the consequences that come with it.
Drugs consume the user’s body, leaving them willing to do anything, regardless of the consequences, to get that drug.
By inviting Syrians in, you’re causing more problems than you’re solving.
If we invite Syrians in, we’re causing more problems than we’re solving.
Does the idea of not actually having yourmoney on-hand sound trivial?
Does the idea of not having money on-hand sound trivial?
That little green piece of paper in yourpocket holds no actual value other than the cost it took to produce it, and yet youwill work yourwhole life just to acquire more of those little green pieces of paper just so youcan take them and stick them in a bank.
The little green piece of paper in our pockets holds no actual value other than the cost it took to produce it, and yet we work our whole lives to get more little pieces of paper, just to put them in a bank.
So just remember the next time youread a bank statement or look at dollar bill that you’re holding an made up value that someone decided to make up. Without it, youmight still be having to trade with goods like livestock and produce.
It is important to remember that our bank statements and dollar bills we hold, is simply a made up value. Without it, we might still be trading with goods like livestock and produce.
I now understand that a dollar is only worth what youcan receive in exchange for it.
Let us understand that a dollar is only worth what we can receive in exchange for it.
Being able to walk around with money without holding the money in yourhand brings me back around to the idea of the stone because, just like stone currency, you don’t need to be in physical possession of these Bitcoins to own them.
When we walk around with money without physically possessing it, it remenices the idea of stones, because we don’t actually need to possess them to own them.
We hear people talk about the American Dream, which requires that youhave enough of these pieces of paper to be financially stable. If youthink about it deeply you will realize, that youreceive these pieces of paper called money and base yourwhole life on them.
We hear people talk about the American Dream, which requires us tohave enough of these pieces of paper to be financially stable. If wethink about it deeply we will realize that we receive these pieces of paper called money and base our whole life on them.
Money is an adroit concept and its pursuit lasts a lifetime. Yourgoal from the moment youstart school is to join the game of making enough of these pieces of paper to make yourlife more fun and acceptable.
Money is an adroit concept and its pursuit lasts a lifetime. Our goal from the moment we start school is to join the game of making enough of these pieces of paper to make ourlife more fun and acceptable.
There is a huge problem in Vancouver with heroin addicts committing crimes to support their habits. The “free heroin for addicts” program is doing everything they can to stop the addicts. The problem is that there is a large crime rate due to the addicts. It is obvious that addicts have a hard time getting through their day to day lives. Daily activities such as jobs, interactions, and relationships are hard to maintain because of the fact that they are using. By heroin users being addicted, they will do whatever they have to do to get their hands on the drug. The types of crimes committed are those of breaking and entering as well as stealing. There are no limits to where they will go to retrieve this drug so that they can feed their addiction. The problem with this program is that it won’t help to ween these addicts off using heroin. It is only trying to save the city from rising crime rates that they’re up to. By providing the drug, these addicts will be off the streets, which in turn will prevent them from committing minor street crimes. This will also keep the heroin users out of the hospital. It is pointless that the hospitals have to deal with people that want to use bad drugs or unsanitary needles and find themselves being unable to afford hospital bills and hard to cope without the drug. This program gives people free heroin in the cleanest way possible. This will in turn fix the city but not the addiction that these people face.
Revised version:
Vancouver is grappling with a rising crime rate driven by heroin addiction. In response, the city has introduced a controversial “free heroin for addicts” program. While its goal is to reduce street crime, this approach fails to address the deeper issue: addiction. Heroin users, desperate to feed their habit, often resort to crimes like breaking and entering or theft. Their compulsion to obtain the drug pushes them to extremes, leaving jobs, relationships, and basic daily activities in disarray. The program provides clean heroin to addicts in an attempt to keep them off the streets and out of hospitals. While this may reduce minor street crimes, it does nothing to treat the root cause: addiction itself. By offering free heroin, the city is simply managing the symptoms of a much larger problem. Addicts remain trapped in their dependency, and the city is left with the cost of maintaining a cycle of addiction without offering a real path to recovery.
A popular belief among many parents is that children are too immature to safely engage in weightlifting, that they should wait until they’re older and responsible enough. Parents often dismiss the idea of their kids lifting weights immediately, picturing their children as the individuals who can’t maintain a teeth brushing regimen, use any cooking appliances or have any self control.
While decision making is an essential skill that typically develops as you grow up, it’s unfair to assume all children will lack the capacity to tackle lifting weights in a safe manner. This perspective often overlooks two critical factors, the role of proper guidance that the parents provide and the overwhelming potential benefits of weightlifting has, under supervision. A child’s age doesn’t inherently determine their ability to engage weightlifting in a smart, safe and respectful manner. Instead, it is the guidance and support provided by the parents – who are responsible for nurturing and fostering their growth – that will determine the child’s success in approaching weightlifting responsibly.
The central argument against children lifting weights hinges on the belief that children are too immature to make responsible decisions. Many activities are legally restricted based on age, such as getting a tattoo, enlisting in the military, consuming alcohol—because these are all considered too risky for individuals who lack the maturity fully to understand the consequences. Many would say it’s fair that this logic and concern should extend to weightlifting, especially those who are especially young, that they don’t possess the full comprehension of the potential danger of improper form, overloading weights muscle strains – the most common cause of injury for young lifters.
According to The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), muscle strains account for “40 to 70%” of all strength-related training injuries, which indicate the cause as a level of overexertion, therefor a lack of self control. While the physical risks associated with weightlifting are entirely valid, their existence highlights a deeper, underlying issue: the psychological factors that influences the child’s decision-making. These factors are just as important when assessing and discussing the likelihood of injury.
A lack of prefrontal cortex development is something all children possess, which alters the risk of injury when they engage in weightlifting. Children will typically lack emotional maturity and the cognitive awareness to understand the risk association with weightlifting, purely due to their lack of brain development, compared to an adult. For instance, it isn’t far fetched to say that in instances where children are placed into a competitive environment, their ability to manage their own emotions and assess their own pain falter in the moment. Where they’ll then create an emotional association between the desire to push oneself past their limits with competition. This becomes extremely prevalent in training scenarios where they fail to recognize their technique unraveling and general fatigue. Combine this factor with their less likeliness to experience fear or caution that adults or even teens typically have when approaching weightlifting, new exercises (or any experience), which will ultimately increase the risk of injury.
While the immaturity argument may sound appealing on surface level, it fails to recognize that children are perfectly capable of learning safe practices. Saying that children may be too immature to handle weightlifting is based on the assumption that their lack of maturity equates to an inability to make sound and reasonable decisions. What’s overlooked is that maturity is not a single trait but a spectrum. While there are laws for an age-requirement to be put in place for activities like drinking alcohol, or making life altering decisions, it doesn’t mean weightlifting inherently carries the same risk. Making an equivalence between age restricted activities and a recreational activity holds no merit or basis. Numerous studies on child development show that children can exhibit discipline and responsibility when taught under correct supervision. That discipline and responsibility is of course influenced by tangible factors, not relating to age, but the guidance, structure and expectations of the adults who are teaching them.
Research on child development consistently shows that children from the ages of 7 to 11 are fully aware of understanding complex concepts, like how their egos affects how others perceive them, how others think and feel, and most importantly have logical thoughts that result in concrete results. The cognitive ability that is required to understand the importance of proper safety precautions, technique and reasonable effort are all within capacity for any child.
When taught with proper technique and gradual introduction to the activity, children are just as capable as adults in maintaining proper discipline. While The American Academy of Pediatrics may have reported muscle strains as 40 to 70% of all strength-related injuries, it goes far into its writing to further clarify that most of these injuries occur at home, with unsupervised settings. When there’s no supervision present, that clearly represents the little amount of effort in teaching the children proper form, technique, safety precautions or to not overexert themselves. Any argument that explains that children’s brains are too undeveloped to make responsible decisions is thrown out the window when the role of proper parents and coaching are present.
Children are sponges. Anything that is presented in front of them will be absorbed to some manner, no matter the topic. May it be how they learn language, puzzles, etc. “Monkey see, monkey do.” Being involved in a weightlifting program with clear outlines of potential risks, weight limits, regular rest periods will teach what their role is as a student. Their coach, parent, or whoever compiled this for them will help them understand their limits while pushing themselves to improve within these strict boundaries. Clear communication will foster the responsibility and maturity they need to participate in weightlifting, not the arbitrary age number they have.
A popular belief among many parents is that children are too immature to safely engage in weightlifting, that they should wait until they’re older and responsible enough. Parents often dismiss the idea of their kids lifting weights immediately, picturing their children as the individuals who can’t maintain a teeth brushing regimen, use any cooking appliances or have any self control. While decision making is an essential skill that typically develops as you grow up, it’s unfair to assume all children will lack the capacity to tackle lifting weights in a safe manner. This perspective often overlooks two critical factors, the role of proper guidance that the parents provide and the overwhelming potential benefits of weightlifting has, under supervision. A child’s age doesn’t inherently determine their ability to engage weightlifting in a smart, safe and respectful manner. Instead, it is the guidance and support provided by the parents – who are responsible for nurturing and fostering their growth – that will determine the child’s success in approaching weightlifting responsibly.
The central argument against children lifting weights hinges on the belief that children are too immature to make responsible decisions. Many activities are legally restricted based on age, such as getting a tattoo, enlisting in the military, consuming alcohol—because these are all considered too risky for individuals who lack the maturity fully to understand the consequences. Many would say it’s fair that this logic and concern should extend to weightlifting, especially those who are especially young, that they don’t possess the full comprehension of the potential danger of improper form, overloading weights muscle strains – the most common cause of injury for young lifters. According to The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), muscle strains account for “40 to 70%” of all strength-related training injuries, which indicate the cause as a level of overexertion, therefor a lack of self control. While the physical risks associated with weightlifting are entirely valid, their existence highlights a deeper, underlying issue: the psychological factors that influences the child’s decision-making. These factors are just as important when assessing and discussing the likelihood of injury.
A lack of prefrontal cortex development is something all children possess, which alters the risk of injury when they engage in weightlifting. Children will typically lack emotional maturity and the cognitive awareness to understand the risk association with weightlifting, purely due to their lack of brain development, compared to an adult. For instance, it isn’t far fetched to say that in instances where children are placed into a competitive environment, their ability to manage their own emotions and assess their own pain falter in the moment. Where they’ll then create an emotional association between the desire to push oneself past their limits with competition. This becomes extremely prevalent in training scenarios where they fail to recognize their technique unraveling and general fatigue. Combine this factor with their less likeliness to experience fear or caution that adults or even teens typically have when approaching weightlifting, new exercises (or any experience), which will ultimately increase the risk of injury.
While the immaturity argument may sound appealing on surface level, it fails to recognize that children are perfectly capable of learning safe practices. Saying that children may be too immature to handle weightlifting is based on the assumption that their lack of maturity equates to an inability to make sound and reasonable decisions. What’s overlooked is that maturity is not a single trait but a spectrum. While there are laws for an age-requirement to be put in place for activities like drinking alcohol, or making life altering decisions, it doesn’t mean weightlifting inherently carries the same risk. Making an equivalence between age restricted activities and a recreational activity holds no merit or basis. Numerous studies on child development show that children can exhibit discipline and responsibility when taught under correct supervision. That discipline and responsibility is of course influenced by tangible factors, not relating to age, but the guidance, structure and expectations of the adults who are teaching them.
Research on child development consistently shows that children from the ages of 7 to 11 are fully aware of understanding complex concepts, like how their egos affects how others perceive them, how others think and feel, and most importantly have logical thoughts that result in concrete results. The cognitive ability that is required to understand the importance of proper safety precautions, technique and reasonable effort are all within capacity for any child. When taught with proper technique and gradual introduction to the activity, children are just as capable as adults in maintaining proper discipline. While The American Academy of Pediatrics may have reported muscle strains as 40 to 70% of all strength-related injuries, it goes far into its writing to further clarify that most of these injuries occur at home, with unsupervised settings. When there’s no supervision present, that clearly represents the little amount of effort in teaching the children proper form, technique, safety precautions or to not overexert themselves. Any argument that explains that children’s brains are too undeveloped to make responsible decisions is thrown out the window when the role of proper parents and coaching are present.
Children are sponges. Anything that is presented in front of them will be absorbed to some manner, no matter the topic. May it be how they learn language, puzzles, etc. “Monkey see, monkey do.” Being involved in a weightlifting program with clear outlines of potential risks, weight limits, regular rest periods will teach what their role is as a student. Their coach, parent, or whoever compiled this for them will help them understand their limits while pushing themselves to improve within these strict boundaries. Clear communication will foster the responsibility and maturity they need to participate in weightlifting, not the arbitrary age number they have.
Taxpayers wonder whether the amount spent on students makes a difference. If wereally think about it, yes it does. Ask any parent whose child goes to an expensive school.
There are different types of injuries that happen in each sport. Would someoneobject if theyknew that a surgery performed before any injury occurs could make an athlete stronger?
Imagine abody being consumed by a drug. A personwould do anything to get this drug and wouldn’t worry about the consequences that come with it.
By inviting Syrians in, they’re causing more problems than they’re solving.
Does the idea of not actually havingmoney on-hand sound trivial?
That little green piece of paper in peoplespockets holds no actual value other than the cost it took to produce it, and yet theywill work theirwhole life just to acquire more of those little green pieces of paper just so theycan take them and stick them in a bank.
So just remember the next time someonereads a bank statement or look at dollar bill that they’re holding a made up value that someone decided to make up. Without it, peoplemight still be having to trade with goods like livestock and produce.
I now understand that a dollar is only worth what itcan receive in exchange.
Being able to walk around with money without holding the money inhand brings me back around to the idea of the stone because, just like stone currency, we don’t need to be in physical possession of these Bitcoins to own them.
We hear people talk about the American Dream, which requires that someonehave enough of these pieces of paper to be financially stable. If wethink about it deeply we will realize, that wereceive these pieces of paper called money and base ourwhole life on them.
Money is an adroit concept and its pursuit lasts a lifetime. Ourgoal from the moment we start school is to join the game of making enough of these pieces of paper to make ourlife more fun and acceptable.
Taxpayers wonder whether the amount spent on students makes a difference. If we onlythink about it, yes it does. Ask any parent whose child goes to an expensive school.
There are different types of injuries that happen in each sport. Would folks object if weknew that a surgery performed before any injury occurs could make an athlete stronger?
Imagine our bodies being consumed by a drug. We would do anything to get this drug and we wouldn’t worry about the consequences that come with it.
By inviting Syrians in, we’re causing more problems than we’re solving.
Does the idea of not actually having our money on-hand sound trivial?
That little green piece of paper in our pockets holds no actual value other than the cost it took to produce it, and yet people will work our whole life just to acquire more of those little green pieces of paper just so we can take them and stick them in a bank.
So just remember the next time we read a bank statement or look at dollar bill that you’re holding an made up value that someone decided to make up. Without it, folks might still be having to trade with goods like livestock and produce.
I now understand that a dollar is only worth what people can receive in exchange for it.
Being able to walk around with money without holding the money in our hands brings me back around to the idea of the stone because, just like stone currency, we don’t need to be in physical possession of these Bitcoins to own them.
We hear people talk about the American Dream, which requires that us tohave enough of these pieces of paper to be financially stable. If people think about it deeply we will realize, that we’d receive these pieces of paper called money and base our whole life on them.
Money is an adroit concept and its pursuit lasts a lifetime. Our goal from the moment we start school is to join the game of making enough of these pieces of paper to make our life more fun and acceptable.
Taxpayers wonder whether the amount spent on students makes a difference. Any parent whose child is going to an expensive school would argue that it does.
There are different types of injuries that happen in each sport. Would anyone object to a surgery performed before any injury occurs that could make an athlete stronger?
Drug addicts are being consumed by a drug that completely devours their mind, and makes them do anything to get more of it.
Inviting Syrians in would just create more problems then solutions.
Does the idea of not actually havingmoney on-hand sound trivial?
That little green piece of paper in ourpockets holds no actual value other than the cost it took to produce it, and yet wewill work ourwhole lives just to acquire more of those little green pieces of paper just so wecan take them and stick them in a bank.
If someone reads a bank statement or looks at dollar bill, they’re holding a made up value that someone decided to make up. Without it, they might still be having to trade with goods like livestock and produce.
I now understand that a dollar is only worth whatcan be received in exchange for it.
Being able to walk around with money without holding the money inhand brings me back around to the idea of the stone because, just like stone currency, we don’t need to be in physical possession of these Bitcoins to own them.
We have been told of the American Dream since we were born, which requires that we have enough of these pieces of paper to be financially stable. Thinking about it more deeply, wewill realize, that we receive these pieces of paper called money and base our whole life on them.
Money is an adroit concept and its pursuit lasts a lifetime. Our goal from the moment we start school is to join the game of making enough of these pieces of paper to make our life more fun and acceptable.
Origanal paragraph- “There is a huge problem in Vancouver with heroin addicts committing crimes to support their habits. The “free heroin for addicts” program is doing everything they can to stop the addicts. The problem is that there is a large crime rate due to the addicts. It is obvious that addicts have a hard time getting through their day to day lives. Daily activities such as jobs, interactions, and relationships are hard to maintain because of the fact that they are using. By heroin users being addicted, they will do whatever they have to do to get their hands on the drug. The types of crimes committed are those of breaking and entering as well as stealing. There are no limits to where they will go to retrieve this drug so that they can feed their addiction. The problem with this program is that it won’t help to ween these addicts off using heroin. It is only trying to save the city from rising crime rates that they’re up to. By providing the drug, these addicts will be off the streets, which in turn will prevent them from committing minor street crimes. This will also keep the heroin users out of the hospital. It is pointless that the hospitals have to deal with people that want to use bad drugs or unsanitary needles and find themselves being unable to afford hospital bills and hard to cope without the drug. This program gives people free heroin in the cleanest way possible. This will in turn fix the city but not the addiction that these people face.”
Revision- Vancouver is seeing a rising crime rate from heroin addicted criminals. Since so many thefts are commited soley to afford heroin, the “free heroin for addicts” program suggests that addicts are provided free and cleaner heroin to make it unneccacary to steal. This will keep heroin addicts off the street, and cleaner needles and injection methods will keep them out of hospitals. This doesn’t help the people addicted to the drug but it would make the city a cleaner and safer place for regular citizens to live. It has reached a point where people using drugs are not the responsibility of the city, and if they are choosing to end their life one needle at a time, then the priority is getting them off the streets and ending unsanitary methods of the drug.
Taxpayers wonder whether the amount spent on students makes a difference. Realistically thinking, yes it does. Ask any parent whose child goes to an expensive school.
There are different types of injuries that happen in each sport. Would objections be made knowing that a surgery performed before any injury occurs could make an athlete stronger?
Imagine the effects of abody being consumed by a drug. The individual being affectedwould do anything to get this drug withoutworrying about the consequences that come with it.
By inviting Syrians in, more problems are being caused rather than solved.
Does the idea of not actually having physicalmoney on hand sound trivial?
That little green piece of paper being held in a pocket holds no actual value other than the cost it took to produce it, and yet a person will work their whole life just to acquire more of those little green pieces of paper to eventually take them and stick them in a bank.
When looking at a bank statement or a dollar bill, remember that this is a made-up value that someone decided to make up. Without it, peoplemight still have to trade with goods like livestock and produce.
I now understand that a dollar is only worth what is available toreceive in exchange for it.
Being able to walk around with money without holding the money physically inhand brings me back around to the idea of the stone because, just like stone currency, there is no need for physical possession of these Bitcoins to own them.
We hear people talk about the American Dream, which requires the need to have enough of these pieces of paper to be financially stable. Deep thinking allows for the realization that many people base their whole lives on receiving the pieces of paper called money.
Money is an adroit concept and its pursuit lasts a lifetime. The goal from the moment schooling begins is to join the game of making enough of these pieces of paper to make life more fun and acceptable.
Our focus snaps immediately to a toddler crying, her slightly messy blond hair getting in her face as she kicks up her legs and slams them down as if trying to stomp on the floor but from seated position. The toddler is framed, centered by an unremarkable white hallway that runs into the background with a door ajar at the end of it, an unremarkable long red rug runs the length of the hallway with a common Persian Rug pattern decorating it, which the toddler restlessly throws her tantrum upon. For the first second, the focus is explicitly on the toddler’s very animated face, as she expresses her discontent. At the last moment she looks up and then the video cuts to the next part. Clearly, she is not having a good day, as to what has upset her, we audience do not know. Ethier, we do not need to know, or we will find out in the next part of the video.
0:01 – 0:02
We cut to an image of a father, middle aged perhaps as his hairline is receding, who is looking down at something off screen, presumably the tantrum throwing toddler. The father’s body is slightly obscured by a threshold, as if we are watching him round a corner from a previous room to the hallway we are in, in response to the child’s cries.
0:03 – 0:03
We see the original perspective of the toddler in the center of a hallway, but this time the focal point of the toddler’s face is no longer in distress. The toddler has switched from kicking and screaming to sitting up into a “W” leg position with a look of decision making on her face. There is now calmness washing over the scene. Not calm in a relaxed sense but calm like when a toddler temporarily is distracted; that state which rests on knife’s edge between going back to loud crying or moving on to being amused and bearable giggling. When we look at what the child is looking at, we see only the father’s arm coming out of the foreground and he is holding a TV remote! A small but important detail is how low and accessible the father’s arm holding the TV remote is in relation to their child. Although the father is offscreen excluding his arm, the arm is extending on a vector so close to the ground, it implies that the father is kneeling or crouching to get on the child’s level and reaching out to them. Clearly this is a situation every parent knows well, as they make their “peace offering” to their child, in exchange the parent will hopefully get to keep their sanity.
4:00 – 4:00
We cut to an entirely different room, perhaps even a different house. An bland white yet recognizable entrance to a house. It is recognizable by the door with an array of nine partitioned windows in the upper part of the door. This is a common door used so people can peer outside. Less than a foot away from the door inside this room is an umbrella resting up against a corner as if someone had left it there to dry and for easy access before leaving. A mother is center frame not far from the door, calling someone’s name, while shuffling though a backpack or bag slung over her right her shoulder. This scene looks like the mother is getting ready for something. Her mouth open for longer than it needs to be while calling a name implies that her call is actually a broadcast to reach every room of the house for its intended recipient. Her positioning near the entrance door implies she is ready to leave. Clearly this is a mother calling for her daughter, as it is time to leave. For school, dance class, or whatever else is not known, but perhaps we do not need to. Between these first two cuts we can start to see a pattern in the making that we are being exposed to moments that every parent can relate to. Hallmarks of parenthood I would call it. Moments such as diffusing a temper tantrum or getting the kids ready for school.
0:05-0:05
We see a playful silly little girl with her nose pressed up against a glass door briefly, until she can contain it no longer and starts laughing. She looks to be around 5 years of age. Her laugh reveals her baby teeth. Her hair is dirty blond; healthy and soft like we all naturally once without products. She dressed colorfully in a teal blue shirt, contrasted with hot pink straps from her backpack. Furthermore, she is wearing a tutu! The tutu includes a reflective patten in its design. Though it is hard to pin down the exact image in sparkles and reflective material, I would venture to say it’s a pattern depicting a flutter of butterflies (Yep, that’s the term for a group of butterflies). This scense shows she is going to school in this fabulous outfit, but on her own time, between being a silly child. The room behind the young girl is unremarkable but we can tell it is a clean and orderly living room/ dining room. We get hints it’s a nice house, not a rich mansion, but her parents make good money in this economy to make their living room and dining room like covers of Good Housekeeping. Off to the side of the door we are viewing the child from, are some house plants they are propped up on a table and also seem unremarkable. This short scene is to elicit joy though a child’s laughter or perhaps nostalgia for parents watching this as they project their own experiences with kids.
0:06 – 0:06
In this cut we can see the girl from 0:05 running towards the mom from 0:04. We see the back of the young girl, her backpack is a sparkly unicorn backpack with prop horse ears and unicorn horn sticking out of the top of the backpack. The young girl does not run in a straight organized line to her mom, but on curved vector to her, playful and happy all the way over. The mom and the background are blurred but we can see the mom is smiling at her daughter’s playfulness. We can also see that this is the entrance to the house we saw before at 4:00, though the perspective is slightly shifted from last time and the scene is shot slightly further away, backed up far enough that there is some kind of horizontal bar from furniture in our way of getting a clean view. This is purposeful in filmmaking as it can be used in two different ways. The first most common way people see this type of this “peering shot” is in horror movies; imagine a scene where the main character is hiding from the big-bad in a locker, peering through the small slits. We watch from the main character’s limited perspective which builds suspense. The second way “peering shots” can work is to convey a candidness of the shot; think a clothesline scene with many bed sheets hanging, and as the camera on rails moves horizontally, we can see glimpses of people doing laundry between the gaps that rapidly appear and disappear and reemerge again as we pan. This scene is clearly the latter and is to make us feel a candidness. The mom and daughter are about to start their journey to school.
0:07 – 0:08
We see a new (third) family being introduced to us, a father and daughter. Our eyes first jump to a father who is working on something, he is holding a tube. We notice that the man is covered in shadows as the lighting implies the afternoon coming to a close. He wears a black shirt. We take in his surroundings next. We see a little bit of a dark unlit interior of a van in our peripherals; a seatbelt and a handle are distinguishable, its middle side sliding door neatly tucked away to provide us with a centered frame which to view this scene unfold. Our eyes then dart to the blurred background, better lit than the father and this van, is his daughter playing in the backyard. She contrasts her dad’s back shirt and shadowy silhouette with her white shirt and pink suspenders. The back yard is suburban, not much yard, but enough. A wood fence to give privacy from neighbors. A few plants dot along the edges of the yard, but the yard itself appears to be more stonework or masonry, far from the stereotypical lawn people think of 1960s suburbia. The child seems to take advantage of this as we see a sidewalk chalk bucket near her. This scene cleverly frames the daughter using the shadowy silhouettes of the her father on the right and the van frame on the left, while also framing the father using the right and left frames of the van’s door. It is also clever that the director uses a blur on the background because human eyes naturally prioritize gravitating to the brightest color in a picture before looking elsewhere, however in this case by blurring the better lit daughter and having a narrow focus on the dad, we instinctually focus on the dad first before moving on to the background. This is layers on layers of good composition and directing as the dad is shadows is important information for the next scene, like foreshadowing. Although complicated sounding it is just a really good way to condense all the information from three separate scenes into one.
00:9 – 00:9
We take the shot from 0:08 and zoom in, now we are solely focused on the background of the daughter playing in the yard and have cropped out the father and whatever he was doing. The daughter is focused on her sidewalk chalk. Very briefly, we see a shadowy silhouette of the father’s lower body walking by, as if to break our line of sight to girl, as he is walks offscreen to go get something. The girl looks up from her drawling on the ground and takes notice that her dad has walked off. This scene is a set up scene and on its own it doesn’t have much power, until combined with the next.
0:10 – 0:10
We cut to shot almost so low to the ground it is almost on it, and from the perspective of being behind the back right tire of the car. We are doing another peering shot by the way the back tire and the back of the car slightly get in our way and take up nearly half the screen. We want that look of candidness again, of getting caught in the act, as we see the little girl get caught in the act of entering the van. She is 2/3rds of the way into the van when this scene starts with her having her body and one leg in the van and the other on the pavement. By the end of the second this scene last her other leg is brought up into the van.
0:11 – 0:11 We cut to a scene inside the van where we can see the silhouette of the girl press the button to close the van door. The van’s frame is silhouetted still due to the lighting outside. The background is blurred as we do not need to focus on the background. It is not important. These multiple perspective shots of a moment in time are really intricate, but they do not have a flavor yet, there does not feel to be any sense of right or wrong yet as there has been no dialogue or setup for what actions mean, we are simply observing a moment as the viewers as a kid gets into a van. What will happen? What will she do? Will she do something heartwarming or fix the thing dad could not and had to go offscreen for?
0:12 – 0:13
We once again go back to that low ground shot from behind the van and we watch from the outside as the door closes.
0:14 – 0:14
We see a close up of an unrelated red wash bucket brimming with lots of soapy suds, we notice a blurred background with a sun, as to keep our focus on the wash bucket. Nothing happens. Then a few suds drip from the bucket. This nonsensical shot is to show the passage of time, a sort of moment of downtime from the action.
0:15 – 0:16
We see a zoomed-out birds eye view of the yard, and the focus is on the van parked in front of the garage. The focus is also on the fact that nothing is happening, aside from some wooden windchimes slightly in our field of view up high to give us the candid look, but also to show that time is passing as the breeze moves the wooden windchimes. If it were not for the wind chimes slightly moving and a slight shake of the camera, we the audience might think we are looking at a still image. This is once again to show the passage of time.
0:17 – 0:18
We are peering from behind some of the items on a shelf in the garage at the father in the foreground and the blurred van in the background. The father is well lit by lights above him in the garage. We only see him from the chest up, but he appears to be looking down at something. It appears slightly later in the day as the sun has gotten even lower and the background seems to be lit by ambient light more than direct sunlight. The father looks up from whatever he is doing in the garage like he senses something is wrong. He moves his head as fast as a twitch to focus his eyes on the van behind him.
0:18 – 0:21
This is the longest cut in the whole short film. We are now looking at the father from inside the van’s middle seat. Our view is slightly obscured by the insides of the car light the passenger seat in front of us, the consol and dashboard… wait the consol and dashboard? This is a low shot to have a consol and dashboard seem so tall, this shot is to imply the view of someone short, like a child. The father is framed by the front windshield as we see him looking our way from the garage. He looks past us as if scanning the whole yard. After realizing his daughter is not in the yard he looks back a the van a realized his daughter is in the van. The father sprints, camera tracking him from the inside of the van, to the sliding side door. There is a look of “Oh no!” on the mans face as he comes into view of the side door’s window. We the audience are to feel that urgency in this shot.
0:22 – 0:23
A new cut to directly outside of the van at a nice 45 degree angle to see a little bit of the inside of the open van, as the father is urgently pulling his daughter of the van. He is grabbing her under her arms raising her out of the van’s seat and pulling her close to his chest as if to hug.
0:24 – 0:30
Another long cut, to emphasize this moment. The father stares into his daughter’s eyes, he is on his daughter’s level squatting or kneeling is implied. The father is on the left of the screen, his daughter is on the right. Their faces are the focus and their heads and shoulder make up most of the screen space. The father face starts the scene with worry and a hit of sadness as if he were say the classic “You had me so worried, what would I do without you?!”. Text appears layered on top of the scene saying “1 in 4 hot car deaths happen when kids get into cars and can’t get out.” Then the father’s expression changes to half smile like trying to see the bright side of things or forgiving someone, and then changes again to a kiss as he kisses his daughter. As the father kissed his daughter’s cheek, new text appears over the image: “Prevent hot car deaths.” and an icon of a child raising their hand in a car’s rearview mirror in a cartoonish style appears alongside of the text. This is the emotional banger, bringing the beacon, the lead, the breadwinner, the scene that should have you feeling your feels. The actor playing the father does a lot in just a few emotions. All those other scenes where not much is happening leading up to this have been rather bland or hyper focused on one thing from different angles. This is the payoff, as we finally understand the meaning of the video! We feel the gasp or relief that is conveyed in the father’s emotions. We are being taught to take a second look around to make sure that we get our kids out of hot cars.
Counterintuitive Fall 2024 
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