Jake Can Watch This All Day

As a companion to my How I Review Media post, I’ve thought about how I can cure my dilemma regarding finding balance between examining things critically while also retaining the joy I have for it. I think the best way to do that is to assess how the media makes me feel. It’s my personal philosophy that the best kind of media should make you feel something, anything, on a deeply personal level. And with this, I hope to assess just that. I will assess how I feel using the following criteria:

Joy

Frustration

Empathy

Sympathy

Surprise

I will examine how I feel about media by rating each of these out of 20. It may defeat the purpose of what I’m trying to do with this, but whereas the review component will assess the technical elements of media, this will address my own personal feelings towards it. I think a blend of objectivity and subjectivity is needed to make things feel more meaningful and less like a chore. Looking forward to seeing how this goes!