Fantastic! It's easy to understand, short and to the point. Loved it, James Martin S.J.! Thank you for making this forgotten ancient practice accessible for people today. How much richer will our life be when we use our God given imagination and senses to read scripture and pray.
While I very much appreciated the explanation that Fr. Jim Martin gave I found the production choices to be incredibly distracting from the message. The constant cutting of face left or face right or different lighting is an old editing trick that assumes the talking head giving information is not enough to keep us interested. Flash cuts and effects do not enhance this type of presentation but editorial devices only distract from the message. I found that I got so distracted and annoyed by the constant cutting and unnecessary transition effects that I just had to close my eyes and listen to the helpful information being provided. Please remember that the message is what is important and when the production and editorial devices, thinking they need to make it more visually interesting than just a talking head that remains fairly static need to remember that it is the story the person is telling that is important and that distracting techniques take away the story and the device becomes the story not the message.
Fantastic! It's easy to understand, short and to the point. Loved it, James Martin S.J.! Thank you for making this forgotten ancient practice accessible for people today. How much richer will our life be when we use our God given imagination and senses to read scripture and pray.
Not a believer but this is why I love reading all books including the Bible sometimes. I always just go there with the people in the piece of work.
Thank you Father James
While I very much appreciated the explanation that Fr. Jim Martin gave I found the production choices to be incredibly distracting from the message. The constant cutting of face left or face right or different lighting is an old editing trick that assumes the talking head giving information is not enough to keep us interested. Flash cuts and effects do not enhance this type of presentation but editorial devices only distract from the message. I found that I got so distracted and annoyed by the constant cutting and unnecessary transition effects that I just had to close my eyes and listen to the helpful information being provided. Please remember that the message is what is important and when the production and editorial devices, thinking they need to make it more visually interesting than just a talking head that remains fairly static need to remember that it is the story the person is telling that is important and that distracting techniques take away the story and the device becomes the story not the message.