Friday, March 25, 2011

Sample S refute

Cliche images do not control the viewer's thoughts, but help lead them through the argument that is being stated. There is alway more than one way to send a message through an image so relying on a cliche visual is a conscious decision made by the author. I see it as the easy way out, the most reliable images are ones that you know a majority of your viewers will recognize and relate to what you are trying to say instead of loosing your main points. Whether an argument is simple or complicated does not matter in deciding to use cliche images. Hope can be expressed in an endless amount of ways and the choice to use an image such as a rainbow is an artistic opinion that clearly works because when the author thought of how to express hope after destruction of rain, they thought of a rainbow. The probability that your viewer will also make that connection is very high because it is something that everyone is aware of and it seems like it was the only positive image in the production according to the way the author talked about rain and destruction.  

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