Visual Rhetoric « Slugger Moore’s Blog

Visual Rhetoric

September 27, 2007, 3:04 am
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Paying attention to visual strategies can teach us many things about our culture. For instance, when a news story gets incredibly popular because it has a video to go with it, like YouTube, it can have positive and negative affects. A positive affect is how the audience can read about an occurrence and then watch it for themselves to make their own opinions about it. A negative affect this has for the culture though is sometimes a newsworthy story doesn’t get read because it has no video to accompany it. With this idea of video, pictures must be even more satisfying than before to stand out to their audience and catch their attention, and paying attention to this means understanding why and how they try to make a picture and article eye catching.
When walking by a news stand, if you see a big picture of a average person doing an average routine you’ve never seen before or know anything about chances are you won’t buy that newspaper. But if you walk by and see a celebrity in hand cuffs thrown against a police car, you will be at least more tempted to pick that newspaper up and read about that picture, if not buy the newspaper just because of the picture. Pictures can almost more important and catching than headlines, like in this case.
I chose the design that had grass as the top picture. I really only chose it because everyone else seemed to be picking the same cool designs. So having this design made the page more unique. I also liked the design because it gave an appearance that the words below that make up the blog are the roots of the blog, and that’s why the title of the blog is at the top with the grown grass. One thing that is inefficient which I attempted to change but is not possible was change the titles font. This is because the font is too small and it’s a hard to read font. I think if it were changed it would be more sufficient. Also, if I changed my design to a different one I would just end up having a design like someone else in the class, and that’s not me. I am unique and so my visual strategy was to have a unique background.

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