While watching The Story of Writing Part 1, I got to see what it was like for the Egyptians to carve their writing into stone. I never imagined their stone carvings to be quite as intricate and detailed as they were in the video, and was shocked to learn how long it took for these carvings to be completed. I had always thought that ancient stone carvings were very plain and lacked the detail that drawings done on other surfaces had. However, watching this video showed me that this was not the case.

In addition, the music that was played during this segment of the film clip definitely played a role in my response to the film’s content. It was very eerie sounding music, and it made it seem all the more unbelievable and almost magic-like how the Egyptians were able to create such amazing means of communication with the few resources they had.