3. Read this very short handout on visual rhetoric and visual literacy.
4. Take a look at the following sites. See what they're all about. Determine what their rhetorical "purpose" is. No hidden agenda here. Just play around on the sites, okay?
5. Remember our good friend, Kanye West? We're not done with him just yet. Take your notes from what we watched in class, and perform a mini rhetorical analysis on his short film, Runaway. Feel free to reacquaint yourself with the film because I want you to locate one of the scenes of the film.
After you determine a scene you want to analyze, I want you to focus on that scene's purpose. (This is where rhetoric comes in!) Determine the message of that scene, perhaps in relation to the entirety of the film, or in a larger, broader context of Kanye as an artist, art in general, culture, etc.
Then, analyze one of the following elements being used in that scene: sound (e.g. music, rapping, dialogue) or visual (e.g. color, frame, scene, fashion). In an analysis of media, you want to explain how a specific element is being used to convey some message.
To turn in this exercise, I want you to type up your response in a blog post. This can be as informal as an outline or as formal as a short essay. Do it however you want. Make sure your responses are posted by 9:35am on Wednesday.
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