Well fellow writers, the semester of Images in Action is coming to a close and I wanted to take the time to summarize my blogging experience with all of you. I think my blog is a good representation of who I am and how I see things through my perspective. I hope that through my perspective and analysis of visual rhetoric in the images I chose to blog about and participation in interactive class discussions, you were able to get to know me better as the semester proceeded.
In my first blog post I introduced my home, where I grew up, and how that place (my home in Muskoka) has shaped the person I am today. My last blog post was on a controversial advertisement for a sport that I associate with, but a company that I don't support (Reebok's CrossFit ad). Throughout my blog I tried to include a balance between personal experiences and achievements, and more generic/ relateable topics like the environment, comics, and advertisements (things that we can all have our own opinions on, with fewer personal biases on my part). Throughout my blogging experience, I realized that when I talk about things that interest me and that I can relate to, I have more emotion in my writing and I hope you were able to see that. I think this routine blog helped me dig deeper and uncover more detail in some of my personal experiences in a way that I never have. Throughout my blog I think I gradually moved away from just simply telling a story through my perspective to actually uncovering details in the visual rhetoric in each image and then using those tools to construct an argument.
I think it is interesting the way we can look at images in advertising for example, and see patterns in the visual rhetoric. What I have learned from this is that a lot of strategy goes into creating advertisements, and more so than I had originally thought. Digging deeper into the different strategies of ethos, pathos, and logos incorporated in advertisements has helped me become a better analyst of visual rhetoric.
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I think it is interesting the way we can look at images in advertising for example, and see patterns in the visual rhetoric. What I have learned from this is that a lot of strategy goes into creating advertisements, and more so than I had originally thought. Digging deeper into the different strategies of ethos, pathos, and logos incorporated in advertisements has helped me become a better analyst of visual rhetoric.
When I go over the images that I have been blogging about all semester, one thing stands out to me as a constant theme in my choice of images, and that is that they are all images of the outdoors (except for the last advertisement). I think this says something about myself and my interests. The fact that I am only noticing this now suggests that it was unintentional, but obviously something that I enjoy and can relate to.
Here is an image that we encountered in class this semester. This image is one that particularly confused me because now that we have technology to do this, how do we ever know what is real and what is fake. I think analyzing this image in class has made me more skeptical when I look at photographs on the internet. When I initially saw the image on the right by itself, I didn't question for a second whether it was real or not, but now I really understand how important it is to consider the fact that photos such as this one should be questioned. I think this is also why I used my own personal photographs because to me that is as close to reality as I can get. But how can all of you know that I didn't photoshop my pictures? Thats just it, you can't know, and thats what makes this confusing.
Here is an image that we encountered in class this semester. This image is one that particularly confused me because now that we have technology to do this, how do we ever know what is real and what is fake. I think analyzing this image in class has made me more skeptical when I look at photographs on the internet. When I initially saw the image on the right by itself, I didn't question for a second whether it was real or not, but now I really understand how important it is to consider the fact that photos such as this one should be questioned. I think this is also why I used my own personal photographs because to me that is as close to reality as I can get. But how can all of you know that I didn't photoshop my pictures? Thats just it, you can't know, and thats what makes this confusing.
