Friday, November 20, 2015

R.R. 11/20

Please Watch this video:


Please Answer these questions:
  1. What is the overall emotion evoked from this video? Explain how the various elements listed below function in creating this emotional feeling:
    1. Image
    2. Sound
    3. Gesture/Body Movement
  2. Now look up the lyrics to this song. Ignoring the music for a moment, what is the pathos of the lyrics? Consider the following questions:
    1. To whom is the narrator speaking?
    2. Summarize the narrator's message to the speaker.
    3. Does the narrator use honorific or pejorative language, and if so to what effect?
    4. Does the argument reinforce, challenge, or degrade any of your values or beliefs?
  3. What is the relationship between the pathos of the lyrics and the pathos of the music (discordant, complimentary, contradictory, symbiotic?) 
  4. What is the relationship between the pathos generated by the music and lyrics and Outkast's ethos both as a band as a fake band created for this video?
  5. Does answering these questions at all change your engagement with this music? 

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