"Most Czech films are small: small cinematography, small plots and stories with no big emotion, no scope," Mr. Baldynsky said.
I had been pondering the Millennium as a high concept opportunity for about a decade so I had a sense of the kind of emotion and scope I wanted to create.
That is, positive emotions widen the scope of attention and perception, facilitate elaborate, flexible and integrative ways of processing information and enable people to develop a rich set of action alternatives.
Despite discussing the different theories of emotions is beyond the scope of this paper, it is worth considering the advantage of using the SAM approach as compared to a questionnaire reflecting a categorical model of emotions (i.e., Geneva Emotions Wheel).
It is worth noting that almost all of the work, both theoretical and empirical, on animal emotions has limited its scope to mammals, or at least amniotes (For a notable recent exception, see Mendl et al. 2011).
Along with Jordanna Gessler, the Director of Education, and Eric Hall, who was brought in to curate the show, we chose a narrative that we felt would show the scope of emotion of what I saw including mini stories within each section on the wall.
Such interpretations arguably overstep the argument of this article as they draw on a psychoanalytical mode of interpretation that would require systematic reworking; they stretch the efficacy of emotion maps beyond the scope of their current potential and sit outside the primary foci of this journal.
The scope of possible emotions is almost endless.
But he couldn't have seen the full scope of the emotions that would eventually be squeezed from these techniques.
