Visual Media Essays

  • Scopophilia In Visual Pleasure And Narrative Media

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    character point-of-view, camerawork, editing, lyrics and spectatorship, we as a society are expected to not only see the visual media through the eyes of the male protagonist, but understand his goals and sympathize with his desires. We want him to succeed as he has character and depth, where the woman represented are shallow and unimportant. This has been used heavily across all forms of media to amplify the man and his image, while simplifying the women he is objectifying. Using the song and music

  • The Role of Media in the Music Industry

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    Role of Media in the Music Industry When musicians produce albums, they want people to listen to the albums. There is not one specific way for a band or single musician to gain an audience and promote their music. Musicians use many different kinds of media to promote their music. They use visual media as well as strictly listening media. The radio, television, and the internet are all different types of media musicians use to promote their music. The radio is the oldest use of media for music

  • Definition Essay - What is Art?

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    purpose of communicating the sensations of emotional response to, or creating emotional response in, those who experience it." There are three advantages to this sort of a definition for art. The first is that it does not limit us to specific media. Art by this definition can be found acted out on a stage, sent over a computer network, hung on a wall, or typed onto a page. The second is that it does not rely on the reaction of the audience to the art. The artist creates art whether or not

  • Sopranos and the Perpetuated Mafiosi Image

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    film, Analyze This and comments are made to that effect. These inter-textual references draw attention to the traditional Mafia portrayals in film and television and acknowledge the existence of this stereotypical depiction of Italian-Americans in visual media. The producers of The Sopranos go as far as to include comedic extra-textual references, drawing upon the social commentary of ethnic stereotyping. When Tony's therapist and her family make a toast over dinner to the "20 million Italian-Americans"

  • The Genius of Klassik Komix

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    understand the message that the writer is delivering. The classic comic book is a polar opposite of the complex nature of poetry. The comic book is designed for the younger reader and possesses a simplistic nature that allows the creator to use visual media combined with short written dialog to tell a story. The pictures in a comic book are an integral part of the makeup of a comic book. The pictures allow the creator to portray the protagonist and antagonist in a way that is common to all readers

  • America Underclass

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    to all social classes. According to Judi Puritz Cook, author of “Consumer Culture…Sales Discourse,” advertisements in print as well as in visual media seem to create “the promise of status mobility through consumption (Cook p.373).” In the article, Puritz explains how television programs on channels such as the Home Shopping Network are examples of how the media exploits the anxiety caused by social standing. It is believed that American people in the lower and middle classes have needs for status

  • Understanding Image and Visual Media Artifact

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    Critically analyzing of visual media artifact investigates visual culture. An analysis entails image interpretation of image equally applicable to genres of photographs as form of advertisement. In this paper, I will critically examine photographs. According to Barrett (2011) he suggested that critic starts with description that involves developing a list of facts concerning the subject matter within the image. Description is a data gathering process of photograph (p. 17). It’s also establishing

  • Visual Culture

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    example would be of a person brought up on Fifth Avenue who believes that the best clothes are made by the likes of Armani compared to a vagabond who believes that the best clothes are the ones that last him through the night. Nearly every form of visual media a person comes into contact with is a photograph, which is undisputable evidence of an event. There is the myth of photographic truth, which means that photographs are subjective, yet can be manipulated and taken in different contexts. Take the

  • Technology - Digital Video and Copyright Fair Use

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    Abstract: Video is one of the most compelling forms of communication of this time. Over the course of the past few years, the gradual but sure drift from analog to digital in video technology has not only improved the abilities of visual communication media to distribute data, but has also improved their abilities to manipulate the data that they distribute. Digital video technology has advanced to the extent that still image manipulation has been usurped by more powerful technological developments

  • Art And Art: The Importance Of Art

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    with the purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs” (Tolstoy, 1897 p. 38). And In art, visual media can be considered as more important than audio media. Before branching off into visual and audio media, as well as their comparisons, one must understand what art is, where it comes from and why certain aspects of it may or may not be considered more important than the other. Art has followed man

  • A Rhetorical Analysis Of Ray Ban

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    widely used form of argument is visual images which can be used from product ads to political campaigns. The benefit of using a visual argument to persuade an audience is the powerful statements that can come from images. This can be seen in the persuasive add made by the Ray Ban company for its classic styles of its self-claimed high end sunglasses. The overall intention of this add may to be the eventual sales of more classic sunglasses, but looking deeper into this visual aid it’s possible to see the

  • Paul Duncm's Life and Study on the Impact of Technological Stimuli

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    Do you ever just sit back and wonder how many images run through your brain everyday and thinking back on that how many of those were images from our society’s pop culture? With our ever growing technology and media of our society, children are constantly being exposed to visual stimuli. Paul Duncum, a professor of art education, studies how these stimuli not only affect our students and children but also how we can incorporate them into the art classroom in an effective way. In this paper I will

  • The Visual Culture

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    The Visual Culture Over the past few decades, enhancements in the visual fields have greatly improved, giving weight on the importance of visual material in text. Something that is more visually stimulating can usually make a text more convincing or credible. The term “seeing is believing” proves this fact. As humans, we tend to believe something if we can actually see it, which is why Jay David Bolter has referred to this phenomenon of the changed role of text and graphics as the “visual

  • Pointless Violence in the Movie (Film), Natural Born Killers

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    (Film), Natural Born Killers Daily, the public is bombarded with violence, not only on television, but also in other media, such as newspapers and tabloids. Natural Born Killers, a prime example of violence in the media, is a movie about two lovers, Mickey and Mallory Knox, who go on a killing spree across the Southwest. The movie takes a satirical look at how the media romanticizes violent crimes. Natural Born Killers has sparked a lot of controversy, as seen in the opposing views of Richard

  • Visual Impairment Outline

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    Kelcy Shackelford Visual Impairment Media Rough Draft Visual Impairment Outline I. Intro- Visual impairment is when a person has sight loss that cannot be fully corrected using glasses or contact lenses. Many people will have some type of visual problem at some point in their lives. For example some may not be able to see objects far away or others may have problems reading small print. A. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) believe visual impairment is the functional limitation of

  • Visuality, Readability, and Materiality

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    believe they should, actually must, be addressed in work on visual rhetoric. The first, "readability," is both a practical and theoretical problem having to do with the possibilities of interpretation in visual culture. The second, which I'll simply label "materiality" for the moment, has a presence in numerous arenas beyond the study of visual culture, but remains nearly unaddressed and nearly unacknowledged in rhetorical work on visual images. The first party crasher, "readability," probably

  • Exploring The Purpose Of The UNICEF Website

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    an article. All the recent stories or any content on the website is accompanied by various pictures that represent certain problem the best. The graphics and visuals encourage interactivity and attract more people to help. The graphic features definitely match the audience’s expectations about the website. With this specific issues, visual content is extremely important since it helps people to understand how serious the issue actually

  • Street Art Essay

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    Journal #4: Street Art and Me Street art is visual art created in public locations, usually unsanctioned artwork executed outside of the context of traditional art venues. Other terms for this type of art can be "urban art", "guerrilla art", "independent public art", "post-graffiti", and "neo-graffiti". Common forms and media can include spray paint graffiti, stencil graffiti, wheatpaste poster art, sticker art, street installations, and sculpture. Video projection and yarn bombing have also gained

  • I Love Art because It Overflows Emotions

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    and that is why I love art. I enjoy art very much and that is why I mainly decided to take this course. Art, I believe is where I am able to express myself with confidence and present my imagination in a form which everyone can look at. I had taken visual arts last year, and I immensely enjoyed the opportunities that I was given by my teacher to present myself in different forms of art. Th...

  • Arts Education: Philosophy And Philosophy Of Education

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    self-exploration. Art is a tool that helps human beings to express their feelings, thoughts and imagination. Like any other communicative method, the arts also play a vital role in bringing out the thoughts of a human by means of expressive methods such as visual arts, drama, dance and music. It also provides children important skills, confidence and understanding to take part fully in the cultural side of life. Koster (2009, p. 212) states that “the arts are a creative playground for the growing mind.” He