samkumor 8 hours

Project Three – Visual Rhetorical Analysis

Goals of this project: This project is your opportunity to demonstrate a finer understanding of rhetoric and how it is used. Just how words carry a meaning and definition depending on how they're used, visual symbols are used in the same way. For this project you will select a music video (which must be available on YouTube, so I can watch it when I grade your paper.) You will write a four (4) page paper analyzing the visual elements of the music video. (You can also incorporate lyrics of the song as well, but ONLY IF they relate to the visuals in some capacity.)

What this project is NOT: This is not a research project about a band or musician. I don't care who the artist is or when the video was made except – again – if it somehow relates to the visuals. (For example, all the videos made after Tupacs death incorporates him on a black and white television somehow, a visual relation to his death. In this way, his personal history DOES impact the visual elements.)

Parameters:

Times New Roman font

12 point font

A title page with all relevant information – no heading on page one

1” margins

4 pages in length.

What I hope you'll get from this assignment: Outside of how you might recognize symbols in pop culture, this information will be particularly useful in English 102, where you will continue to analyze rhetoric, but not exclusively rhetoric.