how do we make it practical for people to not watch in the premiere vid show?
Well, if we're talking about specifically watching, avoiding visual stimuli rather than auditory, we give people a chance to shut their eyes. People have been doing that for years. Obviously that doesn't address questions of sound, but it's easy not to watch any vid in any show, so long as the viewer has enough warning to close her/his eyes before being triggered.
ETA: It's been pointed out to me that just "shut your eyes" is an insensitive response, and I want to apologize and clarify; I really did mean "so long as the viewer has enough warning to close her/his eyes." If someone is triggered by certain kinds of imagery, and knows that the third vid in X show will contain that imagery, then I believe they do have enough warning to close their eyes after the second vid ends and avoid seeing that imagery and that vid, without needing to leave the room. As I said, this does not work if the trigger is sound rather than imagery or if the viewer doesn't have enough warning.
Or am I missing something? Is there some way in which knowing ahead of time that the third vid contains a triggery image would not be enough warning, or that closing one's eyes would not be enough to avoid the imagery? Seriously and not at all sarcastically, if there's something I'm not getting, I'd like to learn it.
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Date: 2010-07-08 01:22 am (UTC)Well, if we're talking about specifically watching, avoiding visual stimuli rather than auditory, we give people a chance to shut their eyes. People have been doing that for years. Obviously that doesn't address questions of sound, but it's easy not to watch any vid in any show, so long as the viewer has enough warning to close her/his eyes before being triggered.
ETA: It's been pointed out to me that just "shut your eyes" is an insensitive response, and I want to apologize and clarify; I really did mean "so long as the viewer has enough warning to close her/his eyes." If someone is triggered by certain kinds of imagery, and knows that the third vid in X show will contain that imagery, then I believe they do have enough warning to close their eyes after the second vid ends and avoid seeing that imagery and that vid, without needing to leave the room. As I said, this does not work if the trigger is sound rather than imagery or if the viewer doesn't have enough warning.
Or am I missing something? Is there some way in which knowing ahead of time that the third vid contains a triggery image would not be enough warning, or that closing one's eyes would not be enough to avoid the imagery? Seriously and not at all sarcastically, if there's something I'm not getting, I'd like to learn it.