Vignettes

Vignettes in Literature (As demonstrated in Slacker (Dir. Linklater, 1991) ) are a short impressionistic scene that focuses on one brief moment to give a trenchant (vigorous in expression or style) impression about a character, idea, setting or object. (A blog could be argued to demonstrate a form of vignettes)

However upon looking into Vignettes more i became enthralled by the idea of vignettes in Psychology and Sociology. Vignettes in Psychological/Sociological experiments present a hypothetical situation to which research participants respond , thereby revealing their perceptions, values, social norms or impressions of an event.

These forms of vignettes are used extensively to demonstrate/teach management and teaching styles ( for example )

Vignettes allow for 'controlled studies of mental processes'. Vignettes are used for processes that are impossible or highly difficult to study through more traditional/classic experiements.

However the process of someone reading a scenario and then responding has a lot of drawbacks/pitfalls as the person is not truly experiencing the scenario, hence why i struck upon the idea of using them in film to provide a much more genuine reaction.