So Professor McGonigal needs to reach this audience using a unique set of appeals.
Let's find them!
HW:
Write a rhetorical analysis of two techniques Jane McGonigal uses during her Ted talk. I want you to move away from blanket statements of rhetoric like, "McGonigal delivers plenty of logos to persuade her audience." It is more concise to use expressions similar to the following:
For ethos= McGonigal established her authority by repeatedly...
For pathos= McGonigal appealed to the audience's sense of...
For logos= such data reinforces the belief that...
Handy outline for writing RA-
A) Establish audience
B) Explain what speaker/writer must do to reach audience
C)Reveal evidence
D) Discuss the intended/likely effect of technique
As we head into Halloween weekend, let's prime our spirits with the techniques of suspense! I posted 6 spooky spoopy short films for you to break down for its effect.
You are in the process of pattern recognition of technique and how that technique contributes to the desired effect in the audience. In this case, creating and amplifying dread/suspense is the goal.
Watch the short films (A-G) with notes in hand ready to find the formula for suspense. Find the techniques that create this suspense in the audience. If you are faint of heart...only watch H-K.
On the shared Slideshow posted in Classroom, you will present 3 distinct technique/strategies evident in the short films.(see my example) Use as many screenshots to support your observation. Why does it work? Be ready to present tomorrow! Respond to Classroom question as well as practice rhetorical analysis.
By including/introducing/blending/focusing/ (x), the director increases __________ in the audience. This technique/strategy works because the audience _____________.
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These last two are actually inspired by a Reddit 2 sentence horror story challenge:
I begin tucking him into bed and he tells me, “Daddy check for monsters under my bed.” I look underneath for his amusement and see him, another him, under the bed, staring back at me quivering and whispering, “Daddy there’s somebody on my bed."
Today we begin to build our available vocabulary for your future review. It is important that you select the medium for your review (music, film, television, food, video games, books, etc.) so we can begin the process of drafting. The preliminary step is to build our vocabulary that is specific to the target of our review. So we need to read several reviews and prune the language specific to this medium.
A) Select your target. (Film,Album,Show,Restaurant,Tech, Video Game, Books, etc)
B) Peruse critics from established professional publications. Select one critic that you enjoy and pick a range of their reviews from positive, negative, to "meh".
C) Create a Google doc (do not need to share with me) and copy and paste no less than 4 lengthy reviews reflecting a range of ratings.
D) Now begin to read reviews and copy the vocabulary unique to the target (cacophony, wide angle, etc) into the Review Vocabulary notes in Classroom. Tuck away words that will help you show fluency in the medium. Remember how we highlighted red for ethos? Orange for tilted language? Pull out these words and your future self will be most thankful when you are drafting your review. (Here is a big pile of music vocab note tilting for positive or negative)
E) Of course, observe the structure of the review. Think about how the writer opened the review. How were the areas of critique organized? What were the comparisons?
Warriors-esque
Great way to add description where the right word is not available to capture it. Take an allusion from pop culture/literature/ history (don't be too obscure for your audience) + ian or esque or -like. Adds flavor but as always use in moderation.Punch up your adjectives when no word current exists that can capture the essence...
Chase the scent of great barbecue in New York City, and you are rooting for a team that will, sooner or later, let you down. You are a Red Sox fan in any season from 1919 to 2003. There will be enough victories to keep the dream flickering, and there will be nights when you watch the ball hop between the first baseman’s legs. But every loss feeds a new hope in your heart. This winter, hope came in threes. Barbecue hounds ran to Gowanus to get burnt ends and char siu pork steak at Fletcher’s Brooklyn Barbecue, and to Williamsburg to find out whether BrisketTown deserved to be crowned the Brisket King of New York in a recent cook-off. They descended on the East Village to take apart Flintstonian beef ribs at Mighty Quinn’s Barbeque and watch men in heavy black gloves grab pork shoulder by the fistful and shake it into dripping hunks — yes, real pulled pork on Second Avenue. All three places slow-cook their barbecue with hardwood only, no gas allowed. All three places serve meat that is largely raised on pastures or outdoors, including pork from old breeds with flavorful rosy flesh and a thick girdle of white fat that bastes the meat as it melts.
