Rhetorical Criticism Presentations
Comment on at least one presentation per day – the list of presentations is posted below. Give constructive criticism with suggestions for improvement, as well as what worked in the presentation. Comment on both the content of the presentation, as well as the presentation style.
Friday, April 18, 2008
Mallory Deutsch – DOD Report on China
Kay Boatner – PeTA Ads
Matthew Semovoski – Rosa Parks
Caitlin Higgins – Advertising Disney World
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Kathleen Pacious – Dove’s Evolution Ad
Sarah Travis – the Laramie Project
Amanda Hill – the Vogue Cover Controversy
Courtney McAllister – “Army Strong” Ad Campaign
Ashely McNabb – Redband Movie Trailers
Friday, April 25, 2008
Amanda Schlener – the truth Ad Campaign
Brendan Ford – Anti-Smoking Ads
Valerie Igal – Captain Planet and Ferngully
Courtney’s presentation on the “Army Strong” advertisement was brilliant. She did an excellent job delivering the argument. She is very well spoken, eliminating all conversation fillers (um, like). The audience was kept alert and intersted in the presentation. Courtney offered a great break down of the Army’s advertising efforts. She even talked about her references which went above the criteria for the presentation. She was assertive. Only criticism I have is that it was a pretty one sided argument. She certainly stated her stance against the army strong campaign and at times sounded like she was reading a paper as opposed to presenting. We all are guilty of that however. Overall an excellent presentation.
Mallory Deutsch’s DOD report on China was great. Actually I got in there middle of her speech, (sorry!), but she has her own voice in her presentsation, and got lots of materials and datas.
There are lots of fun stuffs on Wednesday’s speech. All of them picked really good topics. But Dove’s Evolution Ad, which was presented by Kathleen Pacious, was really powerful. I mean, the topic is already debatable, and lots of women’s a matter of common insterest. She picked really great topic. And I like the novel idea that Dove’s Ad is also “AD”.
Captain Planet and Ferngully by Valerie Igal was hillarious. She showed us a short movie clip of Captain Planet, and it was very powerful attention getter, which rouse people’sinterests and great start. Through this movie clip, she showed everything that she wanted to say. Very strong and powerful movie it was.
I liked Kathleen Pacious’ presentation on the dove ad. It’s pretty wild to see the evolution of that image from start to finish in such a sequence. For some reason is makes me think of the ridiculous amount of advertisements in some magazines where literally the first 30 pages are ads, like even before the table of contents, it’s impossible to let anything sink in from the actual articles after all that bombardment of visual stimuli. sorry I don’t have any constructive criticism, I liked the presentation.
oh yeah the captain planet and ferngully speech was pretty sweet too.
Caitlin Higgins presentation on the Disney World advertisements was both informative and entertaining. This was a great topic with plenty to discuss, however, just an idea – the presentation may have been better if you chose to focus on one type of advertisement (ex. ad’s geared toward children) instead of comparing amongst different target groups. Everything was well researched and well put together though, just seemed as if there was a lot left unsaid since it was a broad ranged topic with only a little time to discuss.
I really enjoyed Seth’s presentation. First of all the topic choice was right up my alley, I’m an avid sports fan including the nationals and was watching barry as he hit his record breaking home run. I feel like given the current situation in baseball this presentation was a perfect candidate for analysis. I felt it was incredibly striking that the speech used the subtle alteration of historical to historic, this was very telling. I was glad hank aaron distanced himself from barry throughout the whole chase, declining to attend potential record breaking games and issuing a very brief well sculpted congratulations. The shadow of doubt surrounding the legitimacy of his record is enormous and I will never believe bonds, or mcgwire, or sosa or most prodigious numbers from baseball’s recent past. Secondly Seth was incredibly engaging during the presentation and added some much needed lightheartedness to the marathon.