Thurs. 2/24 Image and Textual content: Editorial Cartoons and Spoof Ads
· Have a look at some examples of latest political editorial cartoons: https://www.usnews.com/cartoons (Hyperlinks to an exterior website.) For context on how one can consider these, take a look at the next overview of the strategies utilized in editorial cartoons. (Comparable strategies are utilized in spoof advertisements as properly): https://hti.osu.edu/opper/editorial-cartoons-introduction (Hyperlinks to an exterior website.)
· Look by a number of the spoof print advertisements printed on the Adbusters web site: https://www.adbusters.org/spoof-ads (Hyperlinks to an exterior website.)
· Watch this pattern spoof video advert: Revolutionary Apple Laptop computer: https://www.theonion.com/apple-introduces-revolutionary-new-laptop-with-no-keybo-1819594761 (Hyperlinks to an exterior website.)
Half I: (10 factors) Talk about the rhetoric and sources of humor in ONE editorial cartoon, spoof print advert, or spoof video advert. Please paste the picture or video hyperlink into your put up, so I can see it alongside together with your Assessment. In your Assessment, reply to the next: 1) What’s the rhetorical scenario (objective/context/audience)? 2) What rhetorical methods (akin to logos, pathos, ethos, Kairos) does the rhetor use? three) How do picture and textual content work collectively in conveying the central level? four) What particular verbal and visible strategies are utilized by the rhetor—akin to caricature or different types of exaggeration, symbolism, stereotypes, irony, puns, analogies, manipulation of a emblem or slogan, and many others.?(Give a few examples).
Half II: (10 factors) Assemble your personal editorial cartoon or spoof advert and put up it right here together with a quick observe in regards to the rhetorical scenario and your use of rhetorical methods. In creating your picture or video, you should utilize no matter methodology you want and have accessible: drawing and scanning a picture, manipulating pictures on-line by Photoshop, including new captions to present pictures, making a PowerPoint… [If you like what you create in this exercise, you can choose to develop this further into your final rhetoric of humor project.]
