Created by: Ms. Tripolone for your viewing pleasure :)
Check out this short clip from Disney Pixar's Inside Out. Although not realistic it simplifies the idea of encoding. You would need to figure that the area they are in is short term memory and they then send the information down to long term for permeant storage.
Here is yet another clip from Disney Pixar's Inside Out. This one shows a simplistic way of both how memories can fade due to storage decay and can be retrieved from long term memory!