Examples Of Ethos In The Distortion Of Sound

Perhaps one of the greatest advancements in music that we use on a daily basis, the MP3 file, could also be one of our worst findings! The main idea of the documentary, The Distortion Of Sound, is that artists music is being distorted through modern technology; therefore sucking the originality and feeling out of their music when they put everything they have into their music. In the documentary, pathos is used to express the main idea by utilizing both the audio and visual tracks. In the audio track, the director puts in sad, slow music over the interview with artist, Lianne La Havas. This is a good example of pathos because it creates a sad environment for the viewer and makes the viewer view what Lianne La Havas says with a negative connotation. Another example of pathos comes from the visual track, through primary footage of an interview again with Lianne La Havas. The interview is about what goes into a song when the artist creates it. She says, You've spent a lot of time getting it right. You want it to be how you imagined it. How it was to you when you were making it in the

The visual track is used to get the main idea across to the viewers by showing us exactly how the artists feel. One example of Ethos occurs in an interview, used to express the artist's feelings towards audio distortion. Guns n’ Roses Guitarist Slash is one artist being interviewed about his feelings. He tells us, “We [music listeners] are lost in a black hole we [artists] get it [music] and how important it is and how we get it.”(17:00-17:13) This ties back to the main idea on how music compression causes feelings to be taken out of music. This is a very good use of Ethos because by using an interview with an actual music artist talking about audio distortion which actually occurs in his songs, we the viewers understand exactly how the artists feel about it and allows us to know why it is a