Sarah
Major Argument: Provide publicity for Vocal Achord
Strength: Logos says name of group and both logos imply musical interest (clef signs and bar staffs) ; fonts imply whimsy
Develop: Perhaps give a sub-header under the logo saying "Michigan Tech A Capella" or something ; color for contrast
Charlie
Major Argument: Provide publicity/history/advertisement for Club Indigo - Why you should go
Strength: PP can hold its own, provides all the answers to questions people may have, is persuasive/informative ; I like that the font/background portray a 1920's feel, similar to the Calumet Theater.
Develop: Still needs photos, slides broken up
Steven
Major Argument: Don't pirate music
Strength: Very aesthetically attractive infographic, use of color emphasizes stats
Develop: only three statistics, maybe add more (i'm assuming you will because there's empty space at the bottom)
Where it says "the cost: 12.5 billion - annually to the us economy" does that mean money taken from the us economy? that line isn't clear
I'm not sure of the staggered lines in the "when caught pirating", I'd consider making those all aligned (or at least staggered at an even rate)
Cassandra
Major Argument: Join Greek Life at Tech for their leadership roles
Strength: Presentation has a nice flow, color gives contrast is easy to read
Develop: Some slides are too long to read in the time given ; the font is very "childish" (not in a demeaning way, but because it's handwritten) and I'm not sure if it implies the leadership position you're arguing for. Perhaps there's a different "fun" font that shows the lighthearted side of Greek Life without compromising your respectability of professionalism/leadership?
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Challenges
My project is coming along really nicely, and I'm learning more about photo manipulation as I go along, but here are some challenges I've come across during my project so far:
The editing is taking longer than I expected. I had hopes of creating three different photo before/after series, I'm putting the final touches on the first one when I'm in the lab today, and then I'll begin my second one. Depending on how long my second series takes, I might have to cut it down and leave it with the two.
I'm not really sure how I want to host my presentation. The photo series' are either going to be displayed as well, a series (with one photo at a time), and I'm also contemplating turning them GIF's, so after my presentation, they can be housed as a picture family together. But, since my digital media artifacts are pictures, I'm not sure how I want to present them. Most people are putting together websites, and I thought about making a tumblr with my photos, but I feel that if I made a webpage, it would need a lot more substance than what I have. Maybe a solid powerpoint is all I need.
(Just kidding, as I was writing that paragraph, I decided I'm going to make a tumblr page as planned, but then just make one really long essay-like entry. I had previously worried about the fact that I was going to need to create several, if not dozens, of tumblr entries, and I was struggling with how to present my info in any particular order in that fashion, but if I just put it as one long post, It'll be a great host for my argument.)
The editing is taking longer than I expected. I had hopes of creating three different photo before/after series, I'm putting the final touches on the first one when I'm in the lab today, and then I'll begin my second one. Depending on how long my second series takes, I might have to cut it down and leave it with the two.
I'm not really sure how I want to host my presentation. The photo series' are either going to be displayed as well, a series (with one photo at a time), and I'm also contemplating turning them GIF's, so after my presentation, they can be housed as a picture family together. But, since my digital media artifacts are pictures, I'm not sure how I want to present them. Most people are putting together websites, and I thought about making a tumblr with my photos, but I feel that if I made a webpage, it would need a lot more substance than what I have. Maybe a solid powerpoint is all I need.
(Just kidding, as I was writing that paragraph, I decided I'm going to make a tumblr page as planned, but then just make one really long essay-like entry. I had previously worried about the fact that I was going to need to create several, if not dozens, of tumblr entries, and I was struggling with how to present my info in any particular order in that fashion, but if I just put it as one long post, It'll be a great host for my argument.)
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Design Plan
Statement of Purpose: I would like to show how skewed photos can become from when they were originally taken, through forms of editing and manipulation, and to show how these altered photos can create a "hyerreality" for people (namely young women) to base their realities in and around.
Audience: Anyone who doesn't know what drastic edits can be placed onto a photo to alter it, especially high school/ college age women who value personal beauty as self-worth.
Exigency: There exists this notion that the only way to be beautiful is to be skinny and flawless, as seen in celebrity photographs and magazines. In reality, there isn't a person who actually looks like the photos, those photos have been doctored and altered to the point where the model can sometimes become unrecognizable. However, people who take in these doctored photographs don't know they are altered and base their own beauty on the altered, unrealistic and often unattainable appearances of the models.
Audience's "fitting response"/ Potential Change: I would like to see the audience realize how "fake" these photos are; and to be able to recognize and separate the hyperreality of doctored images from our actual reality.
Strategies: Right now, through finding before/after pictures of celebrities, finding statistics on alteration, and showing some before/after photos that I will be creating.
Medium: I will be setting up a blog that I can post onto in a "timeline" like manner, with my postings in order of my arrangement.
Audience: Anyone who doesn't know what drastic edits can be placed onto a photo to alter it, especially high school/ college age women who value personal beauty as self-worth.
Exigency: There exists this notion that the only way to be beautiful is to be skinny and flawless, as seen in celebrity photographs and magazines. In reality, there isn't a person who actually looks like the photos, those photos have been doctored and altered to the point where the model can sometimes become unrecognizable. However, people who take in these doctored photographs don't know they are altered and base their own beauty on the altered, unrealistic and often unattainable appearances of the models.
Audience's "fitting response"/ Potential Change: I would like to see the audience realize how "fake" these photos are; and to be able to recognize and separate the hyperreality of doctored images from our actual reality.
Strategies: Right now, through finding before/after pictures of celebrities, finding statistics on alteration, and showing some before/after photos that I will be creating.
Medium: I will be setting up a blog that I can post onto in a "timeline" like manner, with my postings in order of my arrangement.
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Statement of Purpose
For my rhetorical argument for major assignment 3, I will be discussing the cons of use of Photoshop and image manipulation and how the photos can become a hyperreality to the audience of my fellow digital media students who may or may not know the extensive effects that can be placed onto an image, through the use of before and after photos of photos that have been edited.
^^ I think all we have to write is our statement of purpose, so I hope I don't have to say more! :)
^^ I think all we have to write is our statement of purpose, so I hope I don't have to say more! :)
Monday, October 22, 2012
Response to Wysocki- Lynch
After already doing 3 hours of homework tonight before even getting to reading today's article, I was in no mindset to read 30+ pages to blog on, so I will admit I skimmed. The article seemed fairly easy to digest though, so I'm glad I wasn't stuck reading Baudrillard on a stressful, homework-filled night like tonight ;)
This reading speaks of how easily an argument can crumble if one of many components isn't well built. A solid statement of purpose is key to building the context of the argument. Also, the audience must be remembered when deciding on your medium for your argument. Also, when formulating an argument, consider specific strategies, orders for your different points to go in, and above all, test your argument to see if its as practical as it is theoretically.
This reading speaks of how easily an argument can crumble if one of many components isn't well built. A solid statement of purpose is key to building the context of the argument. Also, the audience must be remembered when deciding on your medium for your argument. Also, when formulating an argument, consider specific strategies, orders for your different points to go in, and above all, test your argument to see if its as practical as it is theoretically.
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Response to Copyright Issues
So all four of the websites we had to read seemed eerily related to my first Major Argument assignment. (I guess I had a clue about what I was talking about all along ;)
With this new wave of hands-on, shareable technology, us Digital Natives have a new, interactive relationship with the internet. The new generation of internet is meant to be shared, reworked and republished.
Here's what a musician in the digital age has to say about reworking music:
(Upon trying, the "insert video" option on Blogger only allows youtube videos, and the "embed" option from the website with the video only gave me code when I tried to post my blog, so I've updated to include the link to the website that includes the video here.
One of my good friends from back at home is going to college for Musical Production and he has an incredible talent for taking popular songs and remixing them. In fact, that is a common practice now -- some major label recording artists endorse remixed versions of their songs and host contests to see who can be most creative remixing an already published, copyright songs. Lawyers, corporations and people who don't understand this new interactive form of media seem to think that doing anything with a song that isn't used with "permission" is illegal. Speaking on the subject is Copyright and Internet Lawyer and Harvard Professor Larry Lessig who explains the fragile line of reworking and editing copyrighted works for creative purposes:
(Again, the posting the video within the blog didn't want to cooperate, so here's the link to the source.)
With this new wave of hands-on, shareable technology, us Digital Natives have a new, interactive relationship with the internet. The new generation of internet is meant to be shared, reworked and republished.
Here's what a musician in the digital age has to say about reworking music:
(Upon trying, the "insert video" option on Blogger only allows youtube videos, and the "embed" option from the website with the video only gave me code when I tried to post my blog, so I've updated to include the link to the website that includes the video here.
One of my good friends from back at home is going to college for Musical Production and he has an incredible talent for taking popular songs and remixing them. In fact, that is a common practice now -- some major label recording artists endorse remixed versions of their songs and host contests to see who can be most creative remixing an already published, copyright songs. Lawyers, corporations and people who don't understand this new interactive form of media seem to think that doing anything with a song that isn't used with "permission" is illegal. Speaking on the subject is Copyright and Internet Lawyer and Harvard Professor Larry Lessig who explains the fragile line of reworking and editing copyrighted works for creative purposes:
(Again, the posting the video within the blog didn't want to cooperate, so here's the link to the source.)
Monday, October 15, 2012
Response to "The Rhetorical Situation"
Phew! This was a long read, and I did have to read it out loud to myself. (If a piece is particularly wordy, I force myself to read it out lout that way I can't skim over it as a result of boredom.) While I did have to force myself to pay attention and interpret the information every so often, I do think I understand the piece. (I mean, we'll see tomorrow for sure, but let me see what I can do right now.)
A rhetorical situation is a man-made situation that requires man-made change (or if not change, at least requires to be addressed) through the use of rhetorical discourse (or speech.) An extingence is the topic of conversation. The obstacle or even that needs to be address or changed. (An exstingence must be realistic - as opposed to fictitious, - and an exstingence maybe be short- or long-lived. An exsitngence may change and evolve over time, may die out entirely, or may live on forever.) The audience of a rhetorical discourse must be a mediator of change, or the people being spoken to must be capable of being influenced. Someone who opposes the viewpoint of the exstingence would not be a rhetorical audience. Typically, it is a constraint of the exstingence that holds an audience back from becoming a rhetorical audience. A constraint is something that holds the audience in opposition (a religion, personal belief or attitude, background, facts, tradition, interests and motives, and so on...) A constraint is also something that can influence how the rhetor gives his discourse. For example, a religious background can influence how a speech is written and presented by the rhetor, and a religious background can also influence how that same speech is interpreted.
A fast example that just popped into my head: an episode of the TV show, Intervention.
Exstingence: A family member has a drug addiction problem and that needs to be addressed and/or changed.
-- This is a rhetorical exstingence because it is a man-made situation not naturally occurring (like a natural disaster) and because it requires man-made change (as opposed to natural fixation.) The exstingence of a drug problem may evolve to address ever-changing severity, or the changing drug of choice. While the exstingence may evolve, the need for a resolution remains the same.
Audience: The rhetorical audience in this situation would be the family staging the intervention, and in only certain instances include the person with the substance abuse issue.
-- This is a rhetorical audience because the family staging the intervention would be mediators of change. The family members are trying to initiate the change.
-- In some instances, if the abuser approaches their abuse with ignorance or denial, they would not be capable of being influenced into change. In other instances, the abuser might be open to change, and in that case would be a rhetorical audience member.
Constraints: Would include anything influencing any audience members to feel the way they do.
-- These might include religious beliefs, personal attitudes and backgrounds, facts or motives.
-- These can relate to both why the audience members might want to initiate change (how the rhetor uses constraints to influence the discourse) and to why the opposition is not open to change.
A rhetorical discourse is more than just persuasion, because in fact, everything is persuasive, as Bitzer argued.
A rhetorical situation is a man-made situation that requires man-made change (or if not change, at least requires to be addressed) through the use of rhetorical discourse (or speech.) An extingence is the topic of conversation. The obstacle or even that needs to be address or changed. (An exstingence must be realistic - as opposed to fictitious, - and an exstingence maybe be short- or long-lived. An exsitngence may change and evolve over time, may die out entirely, or may live on forever.) The audience of a rhetorical discourse must be a mediator of change, or the people being spoken to must be capable of being influenced. Someone who opposes the viewpoint of the exstingence would not be a rhetorical audience. Typically, it is a constraint of the exstingence that holds an audience back from becoming a rhetorical audience. A constraint is something that holds the audience in opposition (a religion, personal belief or attitude, background, facts, tradition, interests and motives, and so on...) A constraint is also something that can influence how the rhetor gives his discourse. For example, a religious background can influence how a speech is written and presented by the rhetor, and a religious background can also influence how that same speech is interpreted.
A fast example that just popped into my head: an episode of the TV show, Intervention.
Exstingence: A family member has a drug addiction problem and that needs to be addressed and/or changed.
-- This is a rhetorical exstingence because it is a man-made situation not naturally occurring (like a natural disaster) and because it requires man-made change (as opposed to natural fixation.) The exstingence of a drug problem may evolve to address ever-changing severity, or the changing drug of choice. While the exstingence may evolve, the need for a resolution remains the same.
Audience: The rhetorical audience in this situation would be the family staging the intervention, and in only certain instances include the person with the substance abuse issue.
-- This is a rhetorical audience because the family staging the intervention would be mediators of change. The family members are trying to initiate the change.
-- In some instances, if the abuser approaches their abuse with ignorance or denial, they would not be capable of being influenced into change. In other instances, the abuser might be open to change, and in that case would be a rhetorical audience member.
Constraints: Would include anything influencing any audience members to feel the way they do.
-- These might include religious beliefs, personal attitudes and backgrounds, facts or motives.
-- These can relate to both why the audience members might want to initiate change (how the rhetor uses constraints to influence the discourse) and to why the opposition is not open to change.
A rhetorical discourse is more than just persuasion, because in fact, everything is persuasive, as Bitzer argued.
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