Public Controversy- Agricultural Subsidies and Corn
To be someone who is truly capable of rhetoric, I think that it is essential to be able to use mediums beyond speeches and essays. For this reason, I am proud of the above video. This video was a group project, so obviously I can't claim responsibility for the entirety of it. However, I do feel that I was an integral part of the group and helped make this video successful. For this video, I headed the editing of the video, but I was also intensely involved in the invention process, as well as contributing to the research and deciding what information was most important to present.
I feel that this video in particular worked in part because it was an original topic. While many people are aware of the obesity epidemic in America, focusing on something such as agricultural subsidies instead of obesity in general was likely more effective, I believe. I also think that the images that we were able to find aided greatly the success of our video. Many of these images came from King Corn, a 2007 documentary starring Ian Cheney and Curtis Ellis. I feel that images were very rhetorically sound and, at times, were even more valuable than what was being said.
I feel that this video in particular worked in part because it was an original topic. While many people are aware of the obesity epidemic in America, focusing on something such as agricultural subsidies instead of obesity in general was likely more effective, I believe. I also think that the images that we were able to find aided greatly the success of our video. Many of these images came from King Corn, a 2007 documentary starring Ian Cheney and Curtis Ellis. I feel that images were very rhetorically sound and, at times, were even more valuable than what was being said.