In his webisode entitled ‘Alton’s Syrup Primer’, Alton Brown presents various types of syrups with a wide range of properties as an introduction to their uses in baking. As he begins to talk, one of his most noticeable characteristics is that his pace is distinctly faster than the average conversation; he maintains this throughout the entire clip. Also of note is his posture: bent in half with his elbows resting on the table, leaning forward towards the camera. Alton Brown’s pace and body language are tools that he uses in order to keep the viewer engaged and comfortable. Because the video is meant to be instructional - as evident by the use of the word ‘Primer’ in its title - its intrinsic goal is to inform, and if the viewer is engaged then …show more content…
they’re paying attention to what is being said and learning from it. Though there are some drawbacks to his style of presenting. Since his pace is faster than what we’re used to in such a situation, it can be uncomfortable to viewers who may not enjoy being ‘talked at.’ Alton Brown adopts an accelerated pace in his syrup primer, so that he can capture the viewer’s attention and keeps that hold until his video is over.
As Alton Brown switches between the syrups he doesn’t have to slow down or use any filler words such as ‘like’ or ‘um,’ and maintains a fast yet controlled speaking rate. This lends to his credibility as someone with a desire to convey information rather than an individual trying to get an unpleasant task over with. From personal experience I know that I get a lot more out of a presentation when the presenter really seems into what they’re talking about, compared to when someone obviously doesn’t care about what they say or how they say it. A viewer would also interpret a sense of urgency from Alton Brown, that what he’s saying is important and you should listen to him. Again when compared to a slower pace, a greater speed will keep the viewers attention. There’s less opportunity for someone to get distracted during a lull in the video if the down time is abbreviated. While very effective, simply taking fast isn’t the only way that Alton Brown keeps his viewers …show more content…
engaged. A person’s nonverbal behavior can say just as much about them as what they’re actually saying. As illustrated in Figure 1, Alton Brown is leaning forwards onto the table with only his upper half in frame and if this were a GIF it would also show that he rarely (approximately less than 10% of the time) breaks eye contact with the camera ie. the viewer. FIGURE 1: Alton Brown discussing maple syrup By maintaining near constant eye contact and leaning forward, Alton Brown communicates his own interest in the topic and his desire to engage with the viewer.
Speaking from personal experience, I’ve always felt that when I’m having a conversation with someone and they’re leaning forward to get closer to me, than they’re interested in what I have to say and want to be included; in this case it’s Alton Brown who’s drawing the viewer in. While one may argue that this is an inordinately large percentage of time to keep eye contact, the viewer isn’t always going to be looking at Alton Brown. There’s some visual effects for each of the syrups, so a viewer may actually be distracted from Alton Brown’s person for part of the time. If Alton Brown was also looking away from the camera for parts of the presentation, there’s a chance that his and the viewer’s eyes would never meet. In order to compensate for what is a consequence of the the media he’s choosing to deliver information, he maintains eye contact. That way whenever the viewer chooses to look at Alton Brown, he’s there to return their gaze. Now consider how the video would ‘feel’ if Alton Brown had the opposite body language - minimal eye contact and a backwards trunk lean. He would appear to be disinterested with the viewer, like when someone looks at their phone when another person is talking because they don’t care. Also if he leaned backwards it would create an even greater physical distance between himself and the
viewer, and just further exacerbates the problem created as a result of being in a separate time/location than the viewer.
In 102 Minutes, Chapter 7, authors Dwyer and Flynn use ethos, logos, and pathos to appeal to the readers’ consciences, minds and hearts regarding what happened to the people inside the Twin Towers on 9/11. Of particular interest are the following uses of the three appeals.
As well as this, they may not be able to understand the large words she uses, and end up getting confused. The way Nigella pronounces the words is also key to the impact they give on the audience. From watching "Nigella Lawson's Hokey Pokey" I noticed that Nigella emphasises the unusual adjectives she uses, extending each syllable to make the word more prominent compared to the other words used. As well as this, she pauses before and after each word to draw more attention to the word as shown by several pauses (.) in the transcript. I think she does this because it's what she's renowned for, and is easily recognisable, as no other chefs use this feature in their language. It may however be used to seduce the audience, although Nigella insists her behaviour is not flirtatious, and is rather
shows the audience how he is trying to put the moment off for as long
In the book Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer wrote about Christopher McCandless, a nature lover in search for independence, in a mysterious and hopeful experience. Even though Krakauer tells us McCandless was going to die from the beginning, he still gave him a chance for survival. As a reader I wanted McCandless to survive. In Into the Wild, Krakauer gave McCandless a unique perspective. He was a smart and unique person that wanted to be completely free from society. Krakauer included comments from people that said McCandless was crazy, and his death was his own mistake. However, Krakauer is able to make him seem like a brave person. The connections between other hikers and himself helped in the explanation of McCandless’s rational actions. Krakauer is able to make McCandless look like a normal person, but unique from this generation. In order for Krakauer to make Christopher McCandless not look like a crazy person, but a special person, I will analyze the persuading style that Krakauer used in Into the Wild that made us believe McCandless was a regular young adult.
The Letter from Birmingham Jail was written by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in April of 1963. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of several civil rights activists who were arrested in Birmingham Alabama, after protesting against racial injustices in Alabama. Dr. King wrote this letter in response to a statement titled A Call for Unity, which was published on Good Friday by eight of his fellow clergymen from Alabama. Dr. King uses his letter to eloquently refute the article. In the letter dr. king uses many vivid logos, ethos, and pathos to get his point across. Dr. King writes things in his letter that if any other person even dared to write the people would consider them crazy.
Anticipation is prevalent throughout The Road, which is set by the narrative pace, creating a tense and suspenseful feeling and tone.
Pollan’s article provides a solid base to the conversation, defining what to do in order to eat healthy. Holding this concept of eating healthy, Joe Pinsker in “Why So Many Rich Kids Come to Enjoy the Taste of Healthier Foods” enters into the conversation and questions the connection of difference in families’ income and how healthy children eat (129-132). He argues that how much families earn largely affect how healthy children eat — income is one of the most important factors preventing people from eating healthy (129-132). In his article, Pinsker utilizes a study done by Caitlin Daniel to illustrate that level of income does affect children’s diet (130). In Daniel’s research, among 75 Boston-area parents, those rich families value children’s healthy diet more than food wasted when children refused to accept those healthier but
Her hand gestures are still natural, but she uses more gestures to express her emotion and the way she feels to further emphasize her story. Her facial expressions and voice tone is more vibrant and aggressive to further go along with the emotion she’s expressing and to grab the viewer’s attention to detail. She does a good job on being the main focus of her speech by not having any outside sources such as slides, note card, etc. and also keeping her body relaxed and in a natural state by not pacing around, expressing natural movements, and many other things. Throughout the speech, she puts emphasis on the word ‘articulate’ as she uses it various amounts of times to get the viewers to catch on to what she is trying to say and the message she is trying to get across. She does express humor here and there but she doesn’t use it as a focal point to keep her audience engaged, instead, elaborates on a story on why she’s
The first step that Spurlock utilizes is documenting his daily life through this modified “McDiet. He include visual aspects in his documentary, like personal footage, to help support his claim. Throughout this documentary, Spurlock includes records of him eating out of only McDonald's every day for a month. He documents his every meal and the experiences he has after eating. He would record how he is feeling and his health condition at many points in the film. From day one to day thirty, he shows how much he had eaten and his final analysis of his experiment. The immoderate McDonald's diet that Spurlock consumed helps show the health risks, consequences, and dangers of fast food. By performing this experiment, Spurlock was able to prove that fast food is a major factor in rising health and obesity problems. Another analytical track that Spurlock incorporated is the uses of text to he...
In a quote by John Mill, “Does fining a criminal show want of respect for property, or imprisoning him, for personal freedom? Just as unreasonable is it to think that to take the life of a man who has taken that of another is to show want of regard for human life. We show, on the contrary, most emphatically our regard for it, by the adoption of a rule that he who violates that right in another forfeits it for himself, and that while no other crime that he can commit deprives him of his right to live, this shall.” Everyone’s life is precious, but at what price? Is it okay to let a murderer to do as they please? Reader, please take a moment and reflect on this issue. The issue will always be a conflict of beliefs and moral standards. The topic
The movie trailer “Rio 2”, shows a great deal of pathos, ethos, and logos. These rhetorical appeals are hidden throughout the movie trailer; however, they can be recognized if paying attention to the details and montage of the video. I am attracted to this type of movies due to the positive life messages and the innocent, but funny personifications from the characters; therefore, the following rhetorical analysis will give a brief explanation of the scenes, point out the characteristics of persuasive appeals and how people can be easily persuaded by using this technique, and my own interpretation of the message presented in the trailer.
Jonathan Kozol revealed the early period’s situation of education in American schools in his article Savage Inequalities. It seems like during that period, the inequality existed everywhere and no one had the ability to change it; however, Kozol tried his best to turn around this situation and keep track of all he saw. In the article, he used rhetorical strategies effectively to describe what he saw in that situation, such as pathos, logos and ethos.
...ore my mom forced me to get in front of an audience and speak the easier it became for me to. I was able to breathe better and calm myself down. By the time I got in high school it wasn’t that big of a problem for me and I had always wondered why. After watching this documentary I realized I had probably learned how to turn down the crosstalk that was occurring between my pre-frontal cortex and my amygdala. I happen to find this quite interesting.
The speech that was analyzed was “Your Body Language Shape Who You Are” by social psychologist, Amy Cuddy. Amy explained in her speech that other people’s and your body language can display how a person can perceive themselves in a power dominance situation. Also, Cuddy described how an individual can change how a room of people views them by simply arranging their posture. Amy Cuddy gave an effective speech by her delivery of the topic, her credibility on the subject, and how she kept the audience engage.
Donald Trump’s speech, he has found many different methods that showed and demonstrated ways for him to keep the audience awake and not falling asleep on him. The most affective motion that not only Mr. Trump uses but the majority of every other speech presenter uses is the use and distribution of hand motions. Now, Mr. Trump has had a little bit excessive and also rude moments with some of his hand gestures. These hand gestures have caused him to be accused of mocking disabled reporters. These claims have been argued back and forth whether or not he was doing this intentionally or if it was just a visual representation of miscellaneous motions. In this speech, however, he uses his hand motions to keep the audience in check by using methods of throwing his hands in the air to dramatically emphasize a foreseen problem that needs to be dealt with or using his hands to show levels like if the national debt is to high he raised his hand high above him then demonstrated that the debt needed to be lowered by lowering his hand to around waist level. Other gestures or actions the he does include not just standing behind his podium but walking around and trying to get to the level of his audience to be more