6th Blog Post

When we look to examine the videos we picked even further, we can relate the process to how we analyzed the piece of art, Breach. When I first thought about Breach, I thought about how people don't even notice it. Then I thought about the fair amount of people that are walking on campus might take a second to glance at the silver tree and some would just continue walking. Where others might continue walking thinking about the tree. The majority of the college students, professors, and visitors that walk past are most likely not going to stop and take time to analyze the heck out of it like we did in class.

When you relate that back to our videos, it is the exact same. There are a lot of people that don't even watch music videos. Then there are some that watch it and move on, some that watch it and think about it for a bit and maybe some that watch it and process the story they just watched and listened to be unfolded.

We are chosing to join the group of people that pick apart the video and think about it in each and every aspect. I just took time to rewatch the video I chose before starting this blog, and I watched it from the analyzing position just as we did with Breach.

When I was paying attention to Colbie, I felt her emotions travel farther away from awkward as the video progressed. It brought you to a sort of ease as you were watching it. That part also followed along with the lyrics about being scared at first and thinking that she is falling for him as the video and the realtionship go on.

Another part that really connects with the lyrics is when they arrive at the beach and Colbie's lyrics say "All around us I see nobody..." At this point in the video, the people standing around at the beach are laughing and making fun of the guy, but it doesn't even phase Colbie. It shows that she doesn't care.

When the lyrics connect with the video, it helps to explain overall. But when you take away the video and only have the words to listen to, its a different story. When we looked at the tree statue, we had nothing else to go with. We basically created our own "music video" for it. We used our book to help and came up with different arguments as to what the purpose of the tree statue was. When you are listening to a song, you can make up whatever story you want, until you see the video, you have no clue what the artists approach was on it. We take their hints to try and create our idea of what they are trying to say.

5th Blog Post

When looking at the video uploaded in the previous blog through the viewpoint of our text, Compose Advocate and Design, there are three rhetorical designs we focus in on. They are ethos, pathos and logos.

The book defines ethos as 'what your audience sees in you.' Like discussed in the last blog post, different video viewers will think different things, which is the case in any video. But with this one and connecting ethos, it is critical on what people will think of Colbie Cailat, the artist rather than the video itself. It is looking past the video and more at the why she made the video like she did. They can either agree with her idea of using a guy like she did that isn't the typical Ken doll figure or they can disagree with her idea of switching it up. No matter what, there will be some people that feel one way and some that feel the other.

Logos in our text is defined as 'the reason and structure in arguments.' The connection to the Fallin' For You video is thinking about why Colbie chose to use the guy she did. What is the reason for going against the norm and picking a new face? Without having an explanation from Colbie as to why she did that, we can't officially know. The logos of it all is that we have to decide for ourselves why she did it. Having that be the case, misinterpreted reasons will be made. That's a for sure thing. Colbie takes the risk of making the video knowing that from the beginning. To me, that shows that she really doesn't care what people think of her or if they judge her in the wrong way. While talking about all of this we should remember that people might not even have a problem with what Colbie did with her video, because personally I don't find it an issue at all. I just noted that it was a difference in the normal videos or ideas we think about today.

The final rhetorical design is pathos. Pathos is defined as 'how your audience feels about what you're doing.' Some people could feel she is making fun of guys like the type in the video. The opening scene of the video helps set the tone for what is going to be happening in the video because Colbie is on the phone with a friend and she explains that the boy is something new and different.