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Observation 9

1. We chose to do our multimedia project on taking mission trips and the influence it has on people.  We will use pictures of ourselves on mission trips, bible verses, and christian music to persuade the audience to go help others that are less fortunate in foreign countries.

2. We will do a PowerPoint presentation, which will consist of pictures and bible verses, accompanied by music in the background.

3.  We will need the powerpoint application on our computer and will use mainly the computer as a source of putting together the project.

Guideline for Final Portfolio

It's a portfolio containing the three major assignments, 10 observation essays, B2 and C2 essays. Specifically, it should contain the following items:

1. The final draft of Visual Rhetoric Assignment
2. The final draft of Research Assignment
3. The final draft of Multimedia Assignment (the video on CD and the 3000 words report)
4. 10 observation essays
5. B2 and C2 essays

The Final Portfolio is due Apr. 24, Friday. It should be delivered to the instructor's office, Daniel 317, no later than 5pm, Apr. 24. You can also turn it in Friday class.

Observation 10

this film uses visual rhetoric in order to appeal to the audience's senses. For example John is always shown in darkness becuase he is a murderer. He has an amazing sense which he hides from the world and also is a murderer, which he hides from the world. Being cast in darkness is a way to display the fact that he has all of these secrets. the movie also goes through a lot in order to make people understand what things smell like. We first recieve the clue that something smells good when John becomes obsessive with it, but these feelings are then strenghthened through visual rhetoric. bright pictures of attractive women as well as the tempting music allows the audience to interpret a smell though a form of visual rhetoric.

Storyboard

Storyboards are graphic organizers such as a series of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of previsualizing a motion picture, animation, motion graphic or interactive media sequence, including website interactivity.

Examples:

http://accad.osu.edu/womenandtech/Storyboard%20Resource/

Obersvation 10

Dear class,

This film is trying to show the importance of being seen and how having a special gift can be a curse. In his case he has an incredible sense of smell, however, it leads to him not having many social skills or being able to communicate normally. It also shows the differences between social classes by using colors. When the scene has richer people in it, it is full of color. However, when the scene is in the slums or a poorer part of the city, it is gray and colorless.

The visual rhetoric strategies appeal to the audiences' emotions and sense of sight. They "personify" smell by using flashes of visual rhetoric. For example, when Jean Baptist smelled a new or extraordinary scent the movie had flashes of things that appealed to the audience's sense of sight.


This movie was really creepy. It was full of death and naked chicks and everything. However, it does show a good fact about life - that being taken for granted and not having a sense of self is very bad for you. That's why nerds go crazy sometimes, like for example the horrific Virginia Tech shootings/murders.

Go Sox

Love,
Steven

P.S. I'm going to miss all of you when our class is over in a couple weeks :(

Observation 10

The main argument in the movie highlights the drastic difference between the upper and lower class. The upper class is more colorful, the people are happier, more laid back, and less stressed. The lower class is constantly working and scrounging for food. They are grumpy, stressed, and colorless.
The uses of light, color, and makeup were prominent in this movie to emphasize the argument. The use of pathos as a rhetorical strategy was very strong. The movie as a whole was very graphic and used shock to impact the viewer.
I think the concept of this movie is very strange. It is calculating and creative, but altogether strange.

Observation 10

1. The main thing that this film trys to argue is the great differences between the upper and middle class people, concerning everything from their living conditions to how their everyday life is and their manners. I think the emphasis is put on perfume, showing through visual rhetoric how the one thing you cant see (smell) into things that represent smell that we can see.
2and3. As we discussed in class, this film shows everything that concerns the lower class in dark colors, and makes everyone seem like they have been rolling in dirt. But, when a scene with the upper class, the colors are vibrant, almost blinding and uncomfortable to look at. The colors are almost gold, maybe to represent the money and unreachable status. Even the music used throughout the film in haunting when Jean is making his perfume. The way Jean lays the girls out across the town almost as if they are modeling, trying to look peaceful. He laid them in places that they would surely be found.
4. This is a very good movie to represent visual rhetoric. Someone mentioned before me about how everyoen that Jean gets close to dies off. I think that is an important aspect to remember with him. He never had the opportunity to get close to someone and have a functional relationship.

Observation 10

1. The film intends to argue the dramatic differences between the social classes during this period of time. As we seen in the film John Baptista is in slavery during most of the time.
2 & 3. In this movie the rhetorical strategies and appealed used is illustration and pathos. Illustration is used in this movie through the use of color, lighting, music, and apparel. These factors help in supporting the argument by making the major differences between the social classes apparent. The different styles of clothing from the scrubs clothing of John to the expensive clothing of the rich families. When the movie is focused on light John the lighting is dark, but on other topics the lighting may be bright. The music changes tempo and tone all the time during the movie to enhance the plot.
4. This movie showing was a good idea for an in class activity.

Ben Kilian

Observation 10

1)Perfume was written to with the intentions of comparing and contrasting the lives of the lower and upper classes of France. It shows the living conditions of the lower class as slum like and dirty and almost unlivable. While the upper class lives in a nice world with nice clothing, clean skin and beautiful and colorful street markets with decadent foods.
2&3) The film uses his sense of smell to relate with different scenes. It also uses colors to distinguish between the different classes. When showing the lower classes the screen was always dark as opposed to when the upper classes were being showing the screen was vibrant and full of color. Also you can see when Jean Baptiste was just learning and exploring his since of smell he just looked like a dark individual but when he was taken under the wing of Master as Master taught him things Jean's skin began to brighten. It happened as if the more he became enlightened the more his skin began to brighten.
4) The movie is very informative about how perfume use to be made and shows the importance and it's value during that time period.

Observation 10

1. The film Perfume main argument is to show the contrast between the upper and lower classes in society and their differences in living conditions.  The film shows the filthy living conditions the lower class lives in by the use of colors and filth seen all around.  The upper class, however, lives in much better conditions and can be seen by how nice they dress, where they live, their daily lifestyle, etc.

2&3.  The film portrays the different smells through the use of a variation of colors and images.  In the beginning of the movie, the images of filth, dead animals, grimy conditions helps to envision the stench and filthy conditions the lower class are a part of.  When Jean Baptiste goes into the city, the colors change and everything becomes brighter.  For example, the perfume shop lights up and is very bright compared to the slums around it.

4. Every time Jean becomes obsessed with a women and her scent, the girl always ends up dead.  It doesnt phase him about what he is doing, and the uproar it is causing because of his obsession with scent.

Observation 10

1)The film Perfume intends to argue that the contrast between the lower and upper classes in France at this time was huge. The film uses color and visual rhetoric to achieve the vision of contrast between the two.
2 And 3) The rhetorical appeals and strategies used in the film include the use of color, music, lights, shadows, makeup, costumes, and environment to support its arguments. Dark dull colors are used to describe the life of the poor, which contrasts the vivid clear bright colors which are used when associated with the rich upper class. Color is also used to describe scent in the movie. When the old perfumer smells Jean-Baptist’s new perfume he is overtaken to an environment of bright color, flowers, and tranquility.
4) This movie is AWESOME!

Observation 10

1. The main argument of Perfume is to display the differences in lifestyles between the lower class in the slums of Paris and the upper class in the city. The film attempts to portray the lower class as dangerous and dirty using many visual strategies.
2 & 3. Color is a very important rhetorical strategy used to force their argument. When showing scenes of the lower classes, they use dark, and ominous colors. When Jean Baptiste travels to the city, there are brighter colors present. People are wearing red, green, blue and the streets are not nearly as drab as what he was used to. When he finds the perfume store, it is painted bright blue and everyone inside is clean and clothed in bright colors. The perfume bottles are also brighter colors to emphasize how expensive and rich the setting is. When Jean Baptiste travels to the new town, everything is even brighter than in Paris because it is where he desires to be most. Also, the girls that Jean Baptiste thinks smell so nice, have pale skin and bright red hair emphasizing their importance and visually emphasizing their smell.

Observation 10

1. The main argument of the movie is the show the deep contrast between the upper class and the lower class living conditions. Another argument of the film is to show how a person can be consumed by a passion(in this case, the scent of smell), causing them to be wreckless and do things without thinking.
2&3. The film uses color and shadows to help with the visual appeal. In the film, black and greys are used in the scenes that are depicted as disgusting and that have bad smells. When he experiences an enticing smell, the colors brighten up and make everything appear lighter and more jubilant. When Jean Baptiste sees a woman and becomes overtaken my her scent of smell, his face becomes shadowed to represent the evil desire his passion of smell has caused him, while the woman is in the bright light representing her scent.
4. Everytime Jean leaves his master, they die. Everyone from his mother to the perfume master pass away as soon as he leaves.

Observation 10

1. The film perfume intends to compare and contrast the different classes of the society at the time the movie is set. Jean-Baptiste's conditions as a peasant is overwhelmingly painful to watch. As a man of lower class, he undergoes and experiences tough conditions, and this is certainly portrayed in the movie. Another argument the movie conveys is that greed leads to rash and imprudent actions in order to attain excessive needs. After Jean smelled the powerful scent of a girl, he was utterly unconcerned about murdering girls in order to preserve their smell. Family, companion, or even just a guide is important for everyone. Jean lived a corrupted life in this whole movie and I think it was mainly due to the fact that he had no one who loved, taught, and cared for him.
2 & 3. The film easily portrays the different smell through the variation of color intensities. For instance, if Jean smells a pleasant smell, the object tends to have brighter colors, such as fruits, dresses, flowers, etc. Foul smells, such as fishes or the smell of a tired, laboring peasant, is portrayed with low intensities of color, usually brown, white, and mostly black. Imagery is also an important strategy in the movie especially when they try to portray harsh conditions compared to a town, such as Grassland, where everything looks beautiful and blooming. Music is also devised to convey viewers about the tough times the peasants undergo. When Jean smells an overwhelming pleasant smile, music becomes livelier instead of dreary.
4. One thing that I've noticed with Jean-Baptiste is that because he has no one, he lacks normal judgment. Also, with every person that Jean lives or provide for, they always end up dying through misfortunes. And usually before they die they usually encounter a time where they are overjoyed, either by relief or money. For instance, the lady in the orphanage, his master while preserving animal skin, and the perfume master all received some sort of money from him but then dies after Jean leaves. These events foreshadow the tragedies that Jean will commit with his strength of smell. Also, the events metaphorically compares perfume, after applying to oneself the smell makes a person happy but the smell does always disappear one way or another.

Observation 10

1. In the film Perfume the arguments it tries to portray is the strong contrasts between the life of our lower class main character and the other world he enters. The world seems to not be in favor of Jean Baptise. The film also portrays that when given a talent that you should know how to control it because consequences can come from it.
2& 3. His former life lacked of color and the new world is filled with it The new world is also filled with objects that he smells that are also colored. The harsh imagery used during his birth with the fish market and hanging shows the audience the roughness of his coming into a poor world. This appeals to the pathos of the audience to feel sympathy for Jean.
4. Jean seems to be meant for tragedy. He takes part in his mother's death and the girl's without any intentions to do so.

Observation #10

The film is trying to argue that the peasants live in very unsatisfactory conditions. They portray this with the use of colors and images. They make the awful stench of the streets apparent through the use of images. Dead fish, human feces, vomit, blood, and grime on the overcrowded streets are shown to portray the living conditions and the smell. The clothing worn by the peasants portrays these conditions as well. They are filthy and tattered and droll in color. These images appeal to the audience’s pathos in order to invoke sympathy within the audience.

The film even portrays the main character’s incredible sense of smell through images. Empowering scents are represented by bright colors in comparison to the dark colors of the streets. When Jean-Baptiste goes into town for the first time and goes by a perfume shop, the shop is glowing with color. Also when Jean-Baptiste nears a woman with an overpowering smell, she is almost glowing and is wearing light colors. This is a use of comparison-contrast; the contrast between the glowing young woman and everything else insinuates that she is of more importance to Jean-Baptiste.

Another argument that the film makes is that scents can be overwhelming to Jean-Baptiste. When Jean-Baptiste goes somewhere new, like the market, he is overpowered by scents; he cannot get enough of them. He has to smell everything. When he passes a young woman with an overpowering scent he can’t stop smelling her and stalks her. His lack of control and intensity for scents leads to his demise.

In the beginning of the film when Jean-Baptiste’s mother leaves him to die, the town people scream out “murderer” and she is hung. This is foreshadowing that Jean-Baptiste is going to murder someone and might be hung as well for punishment. Jean-Baptiste’s strength is also shown throughout the film. He survives on the filthy streets when his mother leaves him to die, and he survives when the children try to strangle him when he is an infant. Also when he tries to muffle the young woman’s cries, he ends up suffocating her by accident. 

Guideline for Observation 10

In this observation, please answer the following questions after you watch the clips from Perfume : The Story of a Murderer (2006) by Tom Tykwer shown in class. You can choose to work with up to 2 other classmates on this observation. Make sure to tag your groupmates' names. The essay is due Wednesday class time, and you need to make comments on your classmates' posts.

1. What argument(s) do you think the film intends to make?

2. What rhetorical appeals and strategies do you think the film uses in its visual argumentation?

3. How does the use of colors, music, lights, shadows, makeup, costumes and environment settings support its argument?

4. Other thoughts to share?

Plus, you are encouraged to use images or screenshots to support your analyses.

Observation 6

Tyler and I have long been fascinated with the law that affects alcohol sales on Sunday here in the glorious state of South Carolina. This inhibits our college's ability to party on Saturday, which is a major bummer. Clemson will never be a legit party school if this law doesn't change.
These are what we're going to address:
1) how the law should be changed and what can be done to do it
2) how the south is still run by religion and that is against everything that is American
3) how the absence of laws like this can bring the south up to speed with the rest of the country

we're going to interview people from the north and south and find out what they think about the law and how they feel about the differences between the north and the south and what is better.

Observation 9

1. For this project, we will explain the dangers and harm of human traficking. We are going to explain how human trafficking increases the likelihood of prostitution as well as modern human slavery. We will also discuss ways to eliminate human trafficking as well as how the number of occurences of human trafficking are increasing.
2. As for now, we plan to use a video or a campaign for the form of the project.
3. We will be using a video camera, computer, library, video net explorers or video software.

Neizel and Kristen

Observation 9

We have chose to do our project on the rising prices of college tuition
1) we are going to try to explain how and why the prices have rose and they are affecting students and their families involved. We will research statistics of how tuition has rose over time.
2) we want to use a facebook group for our project
3) computer, pictures, cameras, library

Benji, Bethani, and Julia

Observation # 9

1. We are doing our multimedia project on the non-smoking campaign. We will go into detail on why not to smoke and the effects of smoking on people and the community. Through this project we will persuade people not to smoke and those who smoke to quit. 

2. We will do a photo journal as the visual for the multimedia project.

3. We will need a camera and a photo application to put together the photo journal. 

Alaina & Melanie

Observation 9

1. Through this project I was discuss how fast food restaurants depict their food through images. By displaying them as perfectly put together sandwiches that look full of vegetables (i.e. lettuce, tomatoes) and how they really look. They tend to look greasy barely any lettuce or tomatoes and if their are any they look wilted or unhealthy. The food is depicted to deceive the consumer into thinking that the food is good for you when many times it is not.
2. I plan to display mine through a photo essay. Showing what is depicted and what is reality.
3. I will need a computer, a camera and food from various different fast food restaurants.

Mia

Observation 9

1. Through this multimedia project Ben and I are trying to express the problem we and many other students have with the availability of on-campus dining options at night. We will try to persuade people to leave the dining halls and on-campus food courts open until later hours of the night. Our argument will be that kids living on campus have now options to get something to eat late at night. Most students would like something to eat on-campus at late hours or early morning hours. Chili’s next to Harcombe dining hall is open until 10 but that’s not late enough in our opinion. The only way to get something to eat late at night without making somewhat of a long trip is to order pizza delivery and that’s expensive enough in itself. We want to argue that the dining halls and the food courts should stay open a couple hours later. We would also like for there to be a dining hall or food court open until about 2 or 3 AM. This would make a lot of Clemson students happier.
2. The form of our project will be a PowerPoint. We will be interviewing students at Clemson to get their take on the issue and documenting it into the PowerPoint. We may also take some video documentaries and putting them into the PowerPoint but we have not decided on that quite yet. Pictures may also be a possibility to put in the PowerPoint, but most likely just for decoration.
3. We will need a laptop, a video camera and possibly a regular photo camera.

Ben and Kilian

Observation 9

1. We are doing our multimedia project on the non-smoking campaign. We will go into detail on why not to smoke and the effects of smoking on people and the community. Through this project we will persuade people not to smoke and those who smoke to quit.
2. We will do a photo journal as the visual for the multimedia project.
3. We will need a camera and a photo application to put together the photo journal.
Alaina & Melanie