Visual Rhetoric- ericcartman

0:01- 0:02-  An African American family of four, a mother, and a small boy and young girl, and a father are walking out of their front yard and down the front walkway from their brink suburban home. The father has a stroller on his right shoulder, bagel in his right hand, and jacket resting on his right arm. In his left shoulder is a one strap satchel that appears to be a diaper bag with two stuffed animals hanging off of it, in his left hand is his to go coffee thermos. Behind him is his young daughter hidden between the parents who is starting to grow out of the toddler stage. The mother of the family, to the fathers left is carrying a drink and a small plastic child toy in her right hand, with a crossbody bag resting itself on that side. On her left hip is a young toddler, who she is holding while holding a grip on another miscellaneous bag. 

0:02-0:04- They continue their brisk walk with their hands full, parents side by side and the older toddler coming waking up in between, they all hold content looking smiles on their face. The father began to look up fixating on the distance while the mother scans the neighborhood after closing their front door. They look confident and proud they all made it out of the house in time with two kids and all of the things they will need for their outing, the family displayed a look of pride as they strolled down the small path from the front door to driveway.

0:04- 0:07- The fathers grin quickly downturns as his eyes widen, as the toy dangling from the diaper bag resting on his side is pulled by his daughter who emerged from being pressed behind her parents and walked up between him and his wife. As he got pulled to the left, the stroller on his shoulder began to fall towards the right. This expression stems from his shock and scramble to regain balance. His arms and shoulder begin rotating up and down as he tried to flail himself to regain balance.

0:07-0:09- The mothers eyes begin to squint as she curls her lip trying to muster up strength to prop her son on her hip as the commotion caused him to start to slip from her shoulder, after one strong frustrated huff she gave him a bounce on her hip to stabilize the child. As she narrowly avoided her husbands flailing arms trying to control the commotion. The daughter is still in between them, smiling at the scene she had just caused.

0:09-0:011- The frame focuses on The father’s eyes stay wide as he flails his arms trying to keep the coat from falling off of one, and the diaper bag off of the other, he then bites his bagel in his mouth to free up a hand to mediate the situation. 

0:11-0:15- They move their bodies in a wiggle formation in a bid to uphold all the fallen items and then proceed to continue their walk to the car, struggling behind the daughter who walked ahead of the commotion with a satisfied smile on her face, they all made it to the car with only a few children toys falling onto the walkway. In approaching the door, you see both parents shoulders drop, knowing they are almost relieved. The parents’ eyes glared with determination and stress, wanting to get the rest of that dreaded walk to the car over with. They did not have the same smile as they did in the beginning, but in this point, their lips were tight as they were trying to furrow their brows to focus.

0:15- 0:18- The mother has a relieved sigh on her face as she opens the doe to remove the child from her hip and relaxes her body. The father lets out a sigh as he puts his cup on the car roof, freeing up some room allowing him to relax his body as well. The little girl runs under her dad’s arm and climbs into the back seat of the black SUV. In this she hurled herself in in one swift morion, scrambling into her seat once she was through the car door. The daughter looked at her dad and smiled, which he reciprocated as his appreciation of that moment where she cooperated.

0:18-0-22- The father buckles the daughter into her car seat, she lets out a smile as she energetically grabs the popcorn bag beside the seat. she smiles and bounces with pure energy, which resulted in her spilling popcorn all over herself and the car floor. the father to back away with his hands up, squeezing his eyes shut to not get popcorn in them all of the sudden, his smile shifted to a tight lipped seal, and his wide eyes were shut avoiding any popcorn getting in them. . 

0:22-0:24- The mother is looking at the son in the car seat as she is adjusting him, he sits back and looks at her in an admiring way, and then the frame zooms into the seat belt clicking, highlighting that step in the routine of getting your children into the car. This is when the video ends, with the last frame being the seatbelt, with the message in the end being displayed to buckle up. This was able to get the point of the video across, were you see them highlighting child safety feature in the car through the way the camera panned and zoomed into the safety features.

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2 Responses to Visual Rhetoric- ericcartman

  1. davidbdale's avatar davidbdale says:

    Not your best work.
    If you elect to revise, look for my interaction about this very video with a student from a former semester:

    Visual Rhetoric: How Much Detail?

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