How about changing FPS to "Faked Perception Syndrome".
As we parse our media saturated culture, we are at risk if we don't respect how effectively our perceptions can be fooled.
Media creators construct unrealities, one picture at a time; 15, 30, 60, or 120 times per second.
Anytime we watch anything on any screen, in whatever FPS, we are in some sense "deep-faked".
In fact, as a rule of thumb, we should suspect anything delivered via FPS into our eyeballs.
Entertainment based on frames-per-second has actually been "deep-faking" our reality for over 100+ years.
Editing fakes time, camera angles fake perspective, special effects fake a hyper-violence, sex, and the drama of human nature.
This faking is sometimes cathartic, sometimes informative, sometimes disturbing.
We have been naive long enough.
These constructed realities are not happening “out there” on the screens, but rather in our minds.
Advertisers, marketers, and entertainers are experts at using this eyeball-mind language to insert their visual verbs, nouns, and adjectives into our cranium.
How do we combat this fakery betwixt the screens, our eyes, and the 5lbs of meat between our ears?
One way is to become "disillusioned" on purpose.
Demystifying a magician's act can be as simple as standing backstage.
The behind-the-scene angles reveal the fakery.
This is what we are advocating with youth media instruction.
Take kids behind their magic "screens".
Teach them how to construct a reality they can beam into somebody else's peepers.
Teach it like we teach reading and writing, speaking and listening.
Because for this generation it is just like these foundational literacies.
Nothing derails "Faked Perception Syndrome" more than having to build the sets, map out the angles, and see what it takes to create FPS in somebody else's brain.
At this age it is FUN!!!
With Animating Kids in your arsenal, show your young padawans how all this visual "fakery “ works, with the best possible intentions.
Our massive library of engaging lessons is expressly designed to inoculate young minds against FPS - using fps!
You'll have fun, and create savvy digital citizens too.
One frame at a time.
Bon Animate!
Joe