Before this assignment, I have identified most of the techniques and messages that the creator of the ad (Arjuna anti-stress yoga) is trying to send out to its audience. The icons that are falling away from the woman’s body can be interpreted in many ways for different people. I hadn’t realized that until peer reviewing day when one of my group members mentioned one thing that could be of a man with suit, that he could be a boss that the woman is working under. I think this piece of advertisement is very simple and clear because of the design and choice of color its designer included. The darkening shades of brown and orange around the main subject gave it a calming and relaxing mood to emphasize the attitude/mood when you are doing yoga.
I have received feedback from my instructor that my rhetorical analysis paper is mainly based on the elements of the visual argument that was made by the ad I analyzed. However, what I am lacking is my own analysis and critique of the visual rhetoric. My targeted audience in the essay was not clear because I tend to jump around in my thoughts throughout writing my paper and I didn’t fully explained why or why not was the visual rhetoric succeed or fail in reaching out to its audience.
The most difficult part about this assignment was trying to figure out how I was going to put my thoughts into sentences. Often times, mentally I know what I was going to say but, to put them into words to become something meaningful so that my audience can understand them is very difficult for me. This struggle leads to my next challenge which was my grammatical clarification and structure.
In my final product, besides all my difficulties and challenges to meet the standard of well structured sentences and rhetorical analysis.. I provided strong, logical interpretation of how the symbols and design elements support the thesis of the advertisement. In my revision of this assignment, I am hoping to improve in all areas that I am struggling and look at example essays from Student Guide to get better idea of how I am supposed to accomplish this assignment.