TRINIDAD, HENRY PAUL M.

2012-04384
MMS 102 - Theories in Multimedia
FIC Jonnell Sangalang
FMA # 2
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZRCFK1n-NM

For the OER evaluation, I chose Stacey Flowers’ TedXTalk video titled “The 5 People
You Need to Be Happy”. I was struggling at finding the right OER to evaluate since there were
a lot. That’s when I remembered TedXTalks that were usually presented to us by our
professors back in UPLB to inspire and teach us about a certain principle.
Stacey Flowers graduated college at Saint Mary’s with a bachelor’s degree in Paralegal
Studies. She also holds a master's degree in Human Resources from Loyola University. Apart
from her degrees, she is an international speaker who aims to inspire people wherever she
goes to. Her talk focused on the important people you need in life to genuinely achieve
happiness. Quoting as well that happiness is attained if you’re sharing your God-given talents
to help and inspire the world. Like how Beyoncé inspired her during the Mrs. Carter concert.
She has a son and she got pregnant during her senior year in high school. Stacy
planned to drop out of school due to negative feedbacks being said to her. But her guidance
counselor guided and cheered for her which is the first person you need in your life, a
“Cheerleader”. The counselor rooted and believed in her to choose to stay instead of dropping.
Which helped her pursue college at Saint Mary’s. The second person is the “Mentor”, and this
is the person who will point and guide you in the right direction when you feel lost in life. This
person is the one who has almost all the information, textbooks, podcasts, videos, etc.
Regarding the path you will choose. The third person is the “Coach” wherein Stacey placed it
on the middle finger because this is the one person who will make your life uncomfortable. He
or she will make you suffer by taking you out of your comfort zone. This coach of you Is the one
who will challenge you to maximize your potential in your life. The fourth person is your “Friend”
which is placed on the ring finger because it is that it’s the closest to the heart. This is the one
person who knows exactly what your heart truly desires. They are the ones who deeply knows
you and genuinely respects your decisions no matter what they are in life. This is the one
person who knows what your dreams is in life. The last person you need to connect to is your
peer, Stacey placed on the pinky finger because of its importance in everyday situations like
drinking tea and stuff. This is the person who keeps you focused on the matter at hand. An
example is a work-best friend wherein this person knows how you act on a job and pushes you
when you’re slacking on a certain aspect in your work. It was a great talk and it’s very inspiring
given my situation right now.
In terms of how Stacey presented it, she spoke of these 5 people over and over and
used her hand to make sure people remember it easier. The redundancy principle was also
used in my opinion because I was able to remember these 5 words after the talk. Pre-training
principle was used as well because key terms were already presented as Stacey started talking.
The video itself if easy to look at, it didn’t affect how I perceived the information. On top of that,
she gave deep examples wherein almost everyone can relate to, especially the Beyoncé
fangirling part. Understanding these theories and learning it on the readings provided helped
me a lot. As the video was being presented, I was already noticing some aspects and theories
being used.
Many of us believe that the secret to happiness is being superior to others, so we start
chasing superiority. We also have the tendency to be needy, or the opposite, being avoidant.
We all want to be in a healthy, loving, and nurturing relationships. But with the past experiences
encountered, we tend to be needy or opposite. We also tend to distrust others and distrust life.
People tend to focus more on the negative things in life rather than on the positive things. This
is why Stacey Flowers urged us to find these 5 people in our life.
 Overall it was presented with the all the information needed. She tapped the emotional
side of people and gave examples to better understand what she’s trying to say. She also
talked about the struggles she had while raising her son as a college student. Her son is now
old enough to play football and she coined an example about this as well. In terms of body
language, she was very engaging and walked around the stage a lot. The main objective of the
OER was to inspire people on how to achieve genuine and true happiness as time goes by.
Many people get confused and usually end of not growing in their respective fields because
they’re not with the right people.
Among all the art styles being used even in the past, Modernism is an art style or
movement wherein it transcends the classical, traditional and usual styles. It’s an art style that
is still being criticized about its authenticity and contribution towards the art world. As time goes
by, it got accepted and is usually associated with music, philosophy, expression, architecture,
literature, etc.
Political economy in multimedia is using the different modalities in political campaigns.
Along with the technological advances in our generation and the difference in communication
compared before. Candidates are tapping the social media accounts to gain more presence on
the people. However, some people abuse and overuse it. There may come a time wherein
radio stations and televisions are banned because of this. Same with how the Marcoses
banned media during his presidential reign. Freedom of expression is everyone’s right and
sometimes this is where the multimedia part gets dirty.

1https://mediatexthack.wordpress.com/tag/political-economy/

https://www.mdc.edu/wolfson/academic/artsletters/art_philosophy/humanities/history_of_modernism.htm
http://hartford.edu/academics/faculty/fcld/data/documentation/technology/presentation/powerpoint/12_princip
les_multimedia.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZRCFK1n-NM
https://www.happify.com/hd/what-is-happiness-anyway/