Visual Rhetoric Workshop--Analysis

Here's a rough sketch of Thursday's itinerary.

  1. Meredith Zoeteweys' PowerPoint on Robin Williams' Four Design Principles (attached below)
  2. Color Theory
  3. Genre Analysis
    • Identifying conventions, understanding when a piece works with conventions and when it works against them
    • See Beyond Words excerpt, attached below
  4. Some Familiar terms
    • Metaphor, Perspective, Allusion, Etc.
    • Check out the Picturing Texts
    • excerpt attached below
  5. Putting it all together: Reading some visuals
    • Inspired Silver Advertisement
    • Sally Mann's Candy Cigarette
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beyondwords.pdf273.42 KB
picturingtexts.pdf1.27 MB
everything_rubric.pdf80.37 KB
mann_candycigarette.jpg31.68 KB
silver_ad.jpg262.54 KB
infiniti.jpg71.49 KB
martin.jpg92.79 KB
mann_tobaccospit.jpg49.98 KB