Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Visual analysis paragraph


The first thing to grab the attention of the audience is  an empty class room with the American flag in the shot then a person walking out an empty hallway in a school with lockers, so right from the beginning you can tell what this video is all about. The sound goes along with the shots and that helps drive home the point. As far as the shots being changed and altered there is not much of it except in the hallway shot, it uses depth of field which has the close lockers in focus and the doors to the hall way out of focus along with the person walking out of it. This could symbolize people walking out on education and it doesn’t have to be a specific person so that why it is blurry and depth of field is used. No text is used in this and I don’t think that any need to be used to deliver the point. This argues that president Barack Obama has done a good job with education as the girl says and how she had to take out loans because her family could not afford to send her to college with so many brothers and sisters. This gets most college students that have or either will be taking out loans to pay for school and if there is a lower interest rate on student loans then you will be able to pay it back faster and start making more money sooner helping the economy that is pathos. I don’t know if there is much ethos or logos in the commercial as not many facts are stated.

3 comments:

  1. The video you chose seems very interesting and informative about Obama and his plans with student financial aid.

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  2. This was a very in depth perception of the ad. I feel like the blurring affect on the lockers was most definitely pathos, and I'm glad you made that point. Also, I noticed that you published this post this morning, nice. I also agree it seems to apply to college students, but also their parents.

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  3. You might want to possibly state what the video is about after your first sentence instead of assuming your reader is thinking what you are thinking. Be more specific on which sounds are going with what is on the screen, what sounds empathize the video, whch sounds distract from the video? I love your symbolism and taking what litte was given in the video and building off it!

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