How the Right Words Help Us to Feel the Right Things

Language - how it makes us feel and the depth and clarity it can bring to the emotional landscape. In editing this holds relevance to music and sound design too, a layer of emotional resonance that can immerse the viewer into another world, sensing emotions and responses that pulse through your mind. Words do not just hold meaning, they carry feeling and every language will have a different word to convey an emotion that surfaces in your mind and heart. Simply by absorbing and recognising these words and these rhythms, could that make you less alienated, make you feel that you are part of something bigger or at least involved? It can almost rescue you and involve you. This is a theme explored in this beautiful animation by Antonio Vicentini - How the Right Words Help us to Feel the Right Things

Animation commissioned by The School of Life

Directed, designed & animated by Antonio Vicentini

Written & narrated by Alain de Botton