i found some of the compalints interesting while reading the blogs on Young-Hae Chang’s hypertexts. One that really stuck out was when somone said it “made me feel stressed and anxious.” this comment was said as a negative towards the piece. but i found this interesting becuase i feel it shows how well the piece works. the mixture of the fast paced words and music are suppose to convey these feelings to the viewer. I think Young-Hae Chang wants you to feel stressed and anxious so you can be put in the place of the characters in “bust down the doors.”
the hypertext works on many levels and the combination of text, pace and music all help to accomplish this effect. if you were to just read the peice as a book it would be completely different. your emotional reaction to it would be lacking because you would be reading the text at your own pace and you would set your own tone to it. But by taking this power away from the reader and by adding things like music and flashing text the power is given to the machine and your emotional reaction to it is elavated, making you feel stressed and anxious. i just thought it interesting that what someone didn’t like aobut the piece was what the creator wanted the person to get from it.