Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Blog Post #6: Music and Visuals (due by midnight on 3/28)

For this post, you will write a short analysis of an artifact through a music or a visual perspective. Note that this is NOT a prewriting assignment for the final paper, but an independent blog post writing assignment; the purpose of this assignment is to reflect on the value of these perspectives, whether you use the same perspective in your final essay or not.

Selection of Artifact and Perspective:  Select a song to analyze it through the illusion of life perspective to music, OR select a visually rich text (such as a TV show, a commercial, etc) to analyze it through the visual pleasure theory.  Select only one artifact and perspective for this post (you don't have to do the both).  You may want to check the related chapters by Sellnow as necessary.

Analysis:  Using the constructs of the perspective of your choice, write an at least 500-word analysis of the artifact (see your class notes from related discussions and the tips of writing a rhetorical analysis-sample outline on Blackboard).  In other words, state and very briefly describe your artifact, comment on the artifact's target audience, explore what messages the artifact might be communicating to this audience (explore this through the constructs of your perspective) and some potential implications of the message on the audience (either positive or negative).  Contact the professor with any questions.

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