A style of filmmaking that uses odd angles, zooms, pointless video effects, musical numbers, and sudden noises to try to keep an audience's attention, but ends up just drowning whatever information is intended with sheer noise. Common in the 1990s, for instructional videos and commercials. Best exemplified by Bill Nye.
Coined by the RedLetterMedia series "Best of the Worst"
"Ugh, I didn't learn a thing from that science video, all I got from it is a headache. It was too full of commercialsurrealism to understand."
1. Happenings that when intersected into one's own sphere of reality, strike oneself as surreal or fantastic.
2. A group's consensus reality as it appears to a non-involved individual or group, especially if profound differences exist between the two parties.
1. Meg's conversation with the Amway representative gave her a view into the surreality of vertical marketing schemes.
2. Upon their first visit to the countryside, many urban-dwelling folk are amazed at the archaic surreality still embodied in rural America.
To imagine what is possible.
The act of imagination.
To create something as if out of nothing.
(In Active Form- "surrealizing")- fabricating something into reality, especially if done with little or no financial outlay, and/or resources.
Doug the artist often likes to surrealize what his sculpture will look like prior to beginning work on it.
(Active Form)- I am surrealizing my tired old apartment into a hip, happening pad.