Part 1-Counting the technical events
             The first show I watched while counting the technical events for ten minutes was an episode of Friends. Within those ten minutes, I counted 82 technical events, which to say the least, was a shock since I was only expecting to have counted 50 within that short period. Even though I counted 82, I am not even sure if I had gotten them all because there were so many. The many cuts, superimpositions, and zooms to name but a few, drove me absolutely nuts, sucking out the very joy I normally had when sitting down to a half hour of one of my favorite sitcoms. When trying to count the technical events, I was so preoccupied with trying to count them all that I was unable to concentrate on what the plot was. Commercials were not much better; I counted the technical events for a Dove commercial that lasted for approximately half a minute. Within just those 30 seconds, I counted 16 technical events, which was most likely an undercount. The special camera effects were occurring too rapidly for me to count them all, or at least to be sure that I had counted them all. By watching a short segment of Friends and the commercial consciously, I realized something that I had not before. It never occurred to me how passively I watched television, not noticing the many effects and polishing that went into a program before aired on television. The many technical events from both the commercial and a half hour show of any sort alone are enough to distract any person into not thinking when watching television. To actually think while watching television seems impossible, due largely because of the many camera effects that happen as quickly as the blink of an eye. This of course occurred to me that perhaps that was the intention behind the many technical events, to prevent viewers thinking about what was presented before their eyes, but rather pushed into watching TV with passivity.
             During this segment of...