Mascaro+J+Responses

3/23/12 of Viewer || Primary || Secondary || Experience || "Blue Collar" ||  || 3/21/12
 * Kind
 * Education || gradeschool, highschool? || Daycare, Pre-K, k-8, 9-12, college ||
 * Professional
 * Job Responsibilities || Farming, outdoor, industrial || Go to school, waitress ||
 * Personal Characteristics || Hopeful, weary, thankful, determined, vulnerable ||  ||
 * Personal Preferences ||  ||   ||
 * Cultural Characteristics || European || American ||
 * Attitude Toward the Photographer ||  || Honest, portrays theories must don't discuss ||
 * Attitude Toward the Subject ||  ||   ||
 * Expectations about the Subject || Evoke a feeling they can relate to ||  ||
 * Expectations about the Photograph ||  ||   ||
 * Reasons for Viewing the Photograph ||  ||   ||
 * Way of Viewing the Photograph || Street vendors || Online, websites, (Computer) ||
 * Viewing Skill ||  ||   ||
 * Viewer's Physical Environment || Poor? || Middle-Class ||

Audience Profile

3/9/12 Tim Smith Presentation

I found Tim Smith’s Presentation to be very interesting because he did a great job with using technology to back up what he was discussing. Tim wrote his graduate school thesis on photography, film, and visual rhetoric, giving him quite a bit of knowledge on the subjects in which I have been learning about for the past two months of this course. It was nice to see his passion on this topic, and caused me to become more interested in what he was saying. Tim explained different myths about photography and film, explained the idea of “montage”, and then showed a clip of Alfred Hitchcock demonstrating it. This especially stuck with me. He also explained the idea of “collage”, and used the film that shows the slaughtering of cow with war scenes to portray that war is hell and butchery. Finally, Tim discussed the idea of commercialism and how we are manipulated by commercials. I feel these three theories are important to the topic of visual rhetoric and I learned quite a bit from Tim’s presentation. 2/3/12

Interpretation: The emotional, social, or physical affect a symbol or photograph has on someone in means of persuasion and/or propaganda. My interpretation of the VJ Day Kiss photograph was that New York City, and our country experienced love and freedom for the first time since the beginning of the war. //Rhetoric// by John D. Ramage, page 1 Jenny Mascaro