Much of the video lies on a white background with standard black subtitles to create a minimalistic feel, which is popular in today’s generation. The video is also modernized to match society’s expectations of the 21 st century. The hand-drawn animations establish a simplicity element that appeals to a younger audience.
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I also inputted a Western movie scene of a shoot-out from A Fistful of Dollars to give a break from my never-ending hand-drawn clips. Because most videos utilize movement, I tried to use as much animation as possible, with a sprinkle of still-images to create balance. The play Brokeback Mountain does so by touching on the western’s homosexual counterpart, focusing more on the taboo nature of same-sex relationships and less on the typical shoot-out scene at the saloon (Proulx).īecause the video is essentially a lecture on Westerns, I had to ensure that each scene was always interesting so that I would not lose my audience’s attention. I also wanted to revel on the many subtypes of Westerns, showing that they are not confined to the old films of the Wild West. Providing background information for the audience is crucial because it creates a better foundation of what they knew, making them feel more comfortable and knowledgeable about the topic. Educator David Hamilton Murdoch reveals that many western stories branched off as myths due to America’s discontent of the Westward Expansion actually being a failure (Murdoch). I then dove deeper into Westerns, observing its origins. This eases them into the bombardment of new information they are about to receive, hopefully convincing them in the long run. I had introduced my video with this argument because it created depth to something so simple, such as color, the viewers may often overlook.
He states that back in the 1920s, heroes wore the white hats and villains donned the black hats (Agnew). A published writer of many novels on the Old West, Jeremy Agnew mentions briefly in his work the good versus evil aspect of Westerns, and how it is portrayed through the color of the cowboy hat. I first argued against the simplicity of cowboy attire, specifically the cowboy hat. Getting my audience to see eye-to-eye would help my persuasion, which is much needed since I am telling my audience that what they have known to be true has been false all along.Īfterwards, I chose facts about Westerns, some relating to the stereotypes recognized in the video. The stereotypes I used were those that were common amongst my peers and myself utilizing the more popular stereotypes increases the chances of my information resonating with my viewers, developing pathos in my project. This contrast of “assumptions” and “reality” would hopefully surprise the viewer as well as ingrain the information due to a shock from some cognitive dissonance. To form the skeleton of my video, I established which stereotypes I wanted to debunk as well as what information I thought would be insightful. Though this video animation can be used in the classroom settings, it is effective towards the general public (with Internet access) expecting to learn something new about Westerns. In the project, I take the role as an instructor teaching my viewers. Therefore, I wanted to create a teaching tool, my video animation, to show others who may be ignorant, like myself, of what a Western truly denotes. However, I quickly learned that there is more depth to Westerns than what many assumed. Also, because modernism has become popular in the 21 st century, many people like myself would rather not revert back to an age of uncivilized, gun-wielding men. My overall impression of Westerns consisted of reckless cowboys with heavy accents as well as shoot-outs between men with the camera panning over their faces for way too long. Like many of my peers, I was trapped in the stereotypes of a Western that had dawned on me from television shows and other clips that would pop up in media over the past years.
I had originally shown indifference towards the topic.
For my Rhetoric-In-Practice (RIP) project, I had decided to create a video animation that teaches what the Western genre is really like, contrasting from all the stereotypes that a plethora of people hold.
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