Monthly Archives: November 2012

Rhetoric on the Town: Alignment

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This advertisement can relate to anybody in relationships or in a marriage. Being that the person with the black eye in this ad looks young they may be aiming for a younger audience around 16-21. That way people understand at a young age that domestic violence is wrong and as they grow up they will know that instead of discovering it too late. This image is telling people that if you are in an abusive relationship that it won’t just hurt your relationship with that significant other but other people like your family and friends as well as the victims family and friends too. I believe that this ad is using alignment of the words to focus readers eyes on the black eye it is surrounding. Doing this makes the viewer look directly at the black eye instead of anything else first. It places a significance around the eye and forces viewers to know that the black eye is the subject of this advertisement. The advertisement uses great alignment for the audience to clearly recognize the purpose of this image.

Rhetoric on the Town: Contrast

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The purpose of this advertisement is to relate to people who love to listen to music and love to dance. There is an obvious silhouette of a person dancing while listening to an iPod indirectly stating that if you get the iPod then it would make you want to dance like that too. The audience would most likely be to teenagers and young adults who love to enjoy music and live a life filled with it. The advertisement is making it saying, “It’s only rock and roll, but we like it.” using rock and roll as a genre most youth can enjoy and saying “we” to make it seem like they are part of the audience they’re trying to advertise to. Contrast definitely plays a big role within this advertisement because it uses contrasting colors to make bold statements that appeal to the eyes of readers and force you to look at it. Rock and roll is loud and can be considered a bold genre which relates to the colors of the advertisements being bright and loud itself. Also, many young adults are attracted to strong bold colors as well that are seen in the iPod advertisement.

Individual Reflection: Project 1

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For my wiki page “Old/New Media,” I contributed several different things to help establish a better page. I started with adjusting the words and lettering to match everyone else’s pages so the pages wouldn’t seem so random and different from each other. For the information, it was already done perfectly and gave a clear elaboration on the subject so I pretty much just edited a few things and switched around the words to help explain it better. Overall I believe my contribution to the wiki page made a good impact and allows readers to easily understand the subject.

What I’m mostly proud about with the wiki in general is the way we organized it. It’s simple and easy to use not just for Digital Writing student but for anyone who knows how to use the internet. For my contribution I believe I mostly proud about having made the page similar to its other page and not having it confuse readers because the focus is on making readers feel comfortable and wanting/willing to read the wiki page. I think my most troubling part of the wiki site other than not being able to log in is knowing how and where to separate the different points within the subject and still establishing a connection between them. As a collaborative writer I discovered that every other person’s contribution is vital for the material because different people have different view points on any subject. Collaborative Intelligence was one of the first course outcomes I believe was significantly improved by working with all of my classmates to create this informative wiki site. Another course outcome that was improved was networking, there was several situations where I’d be asking advice from website designers to improve on this wiki site and even my well informed classmates to better the project. I believe appropriation because a lot of our videos and pictures were samples from different parts of the web that we used to benefit our project. Lastly, I feel that the course outcome of play was improved exponentially out of all of them because the whole time what we were doing was experimenting and exploring the wiki page, problem-solving in the process as well.