Emotions Into Personality

How does everyone perceive their emotions differently? How does that shape your personality?

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My Inspiration - Pete Docter

Pete Docter was the director of Inside Out. He was inspired to make the story based on his daughter and her struggles as a pre-teen. As we grow up, we change from being happy and energetic children to more reserved teenagers. For those who haven't seen Inside Out, if you haven't stop reading and go watch it, the main emotions are joy, sadness, anger, disgust, and fear. By consulting psychologists Docter was able to create these characters and have a more grounded story.

Docter was able to give these characters personality. Not just with behavior but also artistic style. He envisioned the characters as shapes to get the feel of the emotions before knowing what they would look like. I really like this approach because character creation can be difficult especially with such complex themes.

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Why music?

image by omar sahal, "orchestra vibrations"

The topic of this blog is going to be about how different genres of music affect a person's personality/ mood. Each blog will be about a different genre like classical, rock, pop, medal, folk, country, etc. And how each one can change someone's personality.  I will be talking about music from the late 1800s to 2025 (present).

According to the Oxford English dictionary,  music genre means "the art or science of combining vocal or instrumental sounds to produce beauty of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, expressive content to form a particular style or category with style or purpose." When  artists make many different categories, it's labeled as a different genre of music which leads to thousands of different kinds.  Which affects the brain in many different ways.  Referring to an article by R W  Wilkins  published in the national library of medicine he states “Listening to music affects an intricate set of complex processing systems in the brain, such as systems associated with sensory-motor processing as well as functional elements implicated in memory, cognition and emotion or mood fluctuation." This shows how music affects the brain, but also how music affects the body too with chills. I know  personally  from  listening to a lot of music or when I'm performing at concerts my body gets  chills from hearing a song I like.  From an article by  Rich  Allen  talks about how the nervous system is affected by the brain and when someone hears a song that shows strong emotion to them, the brain activates the nervous system

From personally experiencing this reaction I am curious to see how other people are affect by music Now since there over a thousand different genres were not going to get to all, but I am going to talk about the most common that people hear in their everyday lives Whether it be through social media, the radio, speakers in a restaurant, or there Spotify playlist.  This topic is important to me because music is a part of my everyday life and the same as other people. And some days music can change my mood if I'm having a bad day into a good one.  I want people to see how music can affect them in the same way it affects me or maybe in a different way! 

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While art and music are two different subjects, I think that they are definitely related especially when evoking different emotions when listening or viewing. Similar to my blog, I'm discussing how historical art pieces provoke similar emotions in today's world, music however, similar to art, never goes away, so you could say an old 1800s song provokes the same/different emotion today then it did when it first came out! Art and music are within the same field and share many different qualities, but I like how we are both exploring them in our own ways and share how each topic relates to our own emotions! I also think music is a big part of my life, I'm interested to learn about your perspective on emotions within music while I focus on the emotions within art!

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I see how this is similar to mine! I'm very interested to see how much your research develops. It is very interesting how art impacts our emotions.

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Who is who?

Elinora - main character, based on me! Just a regular emotional teenager.

Hayley - Elinora's perception of her own happiness. Hayley is very childlike. She wears a sundress and her hair is in pigtails. No matter how old she is she will always act like a little girl.

Sadie - Elinora's perception of her own sadness. Sadie will have her hair down but with a hood up. Her face is always red looking like she was crying (this is if she isn't still crying).

Aggy - Elinora's perception of her own anger. Aggy wears her hair in a ponytail. The hair in her face frustrates her. This anger has 2 sides either it will be rational or completely irrational. There is not an in between.

Crystal - Elinora's perception of her own creativity. Crystal has motherly instincts and is very close with Hayley. Her favorite outfit is overalls with flowers on them. Her hair is half up half down with buns.

Anne - Elinora's perception of her own anxiety. She was the first one to be created. She always has messy hair and headphones on to calm her down. Coffee will make her appear more often. Her style is very similar to Sadie's

El - Elinora's perception of her love. El's name doesn't just come from the emotion but also her name is the most similar to Elinora because Elinora tries her best to be a loving and kind person. El loves wearing a pink skirt. Her hair is half up half down with just one bun.

Eve - ? She is the mystery. Eve looks nothing like Elinora and her other emotions. She is the plot of this story. The outcast. The one you and I try to make sense of. If you watch the short films, do you have an idea as to what she is supposed to be?

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Diving Into the Inner Circle

Emotions are a complicated topic. My hope with this research is to find a way to simplify emotions and create them into characters that an audience can understand and analyze. Something I have been asked based on the short films, Inner Voices Short and Inner Circle: Pilot, that I made in high school, was if the character is schizophrenic. I have also been asked if the main character has DID (dissociative identity disorder). These are not the things I hope to touch on with my story. So, I hope I can learn how to show the struggles she does go through, dissociation/depersonalization. According to The Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology “Depersonalization is the uncomfortable feeling that individuals do not know who they are, or of questioning longstanding beliefs about who they are.”

What caused this for the main character? The answer is anxiety. Anxiety was the main reason why Elinora, the main character, chose to visualize her emotions. Because of how she views her emotion as people feel so real, she loses her sense of reality and gets this feeling of questioning who she really is. Is she her emotions or is she herself? Who is “herself”? Those are the questions that lead more to her struggles. As I develop my story people will see how those struggles not only affect her but also the people around her.

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Why did I choose this as my profile picture? I created this drawing in my senior year of high school for my art portfolio. This piece is called Healing Hug. In my story Inner Voices, you have Eve an emotion that isn't understood. She is different in every way, but she is still part of Elinora (the main character). This is about acceptance because emotions, even the uncomfortable ones, are still part of you!