graphic design: September 2008

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Sound/Motion 17 frm story boards

Crash -> Resonate -> Teeter totter

crash -> teeter -> resonate

Rhetoric lecture

Rhetoric- the art of persuasive speaking or writing. It is not just what you say but how you say it. A rhetorical question is a question that doesn’t require an answer. It makes you think.

10 rhetorical devices/ Trops

personification – including human qualities in a non human thing
hyperbole – Exaggeration. Really big or small
Puns – combining two things that are visually similar. Like a blood bath
Antithesis – Juxtaposing two contrasting ideas to intensify differences. Like a bomb with the word Pease
Irony – like a bullet going into a gun not out of it or a burning fire truck or police men speeding.
Metonymy – using an index image of one thing to stand for another thing. Usually more complex. Based on close association. Example using the symbol for tree a bunch of times to represent a forest.
Synecdoche – a part used to represent the whole, or a whole representing a part. Like rosy the riveter. Like a hand representing a human or all of humanity
Metaphor – A direct comparison of two seemingly unrelated objects by replacing one sign with another. “the___is a____.”
Allegory – the literal or concrete device to symbolize an abstract idea or principle. Like racism represented by the absents or black keys on the keyboard.