The psychology of happiness

Happiness is life experience marked by a abundance of positive emotion. Feelings of happiness and thoughts of satisfaction with life are two prime components of subjective well being. Are people happy? most people report of being "fairly" or "very" happy and few being "not too happy." Happiness as nothing else that an emotion, a long-term sense of emotional well-being and contentment. Happiness is commonly considered by psychologists the main way we can evaluate how well our life is going. As such, how happy a person feels  is perhaps the single, most important piece of information one can know about a person – for it usually tells the whole story. Because of this, happiness should be the most important thing to considering in examining your own life.

Happiness scientifically.

Happy Brain, Happy Life
Happy brains are more creative, quicker, and more mentally alert.

What science taught us about happiness

1. High status brings low ethics
2. Happiness is about respect, not riches.
3. Kindness is its own reward
4. We can train ourselves to be more compassionate
5. Gratitude sustains relationships through tough times
6. Humans are quicker to cooperate than compete
7. There is a dark side to pursuing happiness

[SEM 6 WEEK 3]

Tone 

 The tone for this video i would like to have a teen subject, and what is his/her happiness, shows scene of what situation and things that makes him/her happy

Mood 

I want the mood to be happy (go figure) and lightheaded with a dash of silliness and seriousness. I want it to be a feel good video, when every time you watch it, it evokes this warm and light feeling.

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Images 1 & 2 shows the screens cap i took from my favorite movies and short film creator. The short film creator being Nanalew and Meekakitty. The movies are Her and 500 days of summer.
The thing they have in common is their mood and setting of the scenes, to me it feels very warm and good, it's those kind of movies and videos i could watch countless of times.

Design Specialism [SEM 6 WEEK 2]

Title

Happiness to me is

Concept

What does happiness means to me, is it the same as everyone else? Does the small things that makes me happy is considered big to someone else? How do i define my happiness.

Idea

I want to show that happiness comes from within, happiness does not discriminate. It always needs to come from you. At the end of the day, what does happiness means to you?

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Image 1 & Image 2

These two images consists of the research i conducted to find out what does happiness means to different people, i found out from people with different age, background, race a total of 50 people. From what i concluded, most of the things that makes them happy is more or less the same. what i conclude from this research is that happiness is not bias to a certain race, people with different background and age.


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This image shows the subjects that i will likely be using for my videos. The other one is how i researched on what is happiness from a array of websites, how they define happiness.

Design Specialism [SEM 6 WEEK 1]

The topic i chose to do is about happiness, what is the meaning behind happiness. The media i chose to portray and present my work is video. I believe that video is the best way to show happiness in full form.

Things i need to research:

• What makes people happy?
• Style and mood of the video
• Concept
• Title
• Idea
• Subjects
• Research on what is happiness