Blog Post: Ethos, Pathos and Logos

As it says in the book about pathos "what you say and do can redirect their emotions and build a set of emotional responses that influence how the audience hears your words." In the video "More Beautiful You" by Jonny Diaz their are four line in the beginning of this song that most girls or women can relate to..."Little girl fourteen flipping through a magazine, Says she wants to look that way, But her hair isn't straight her body isn't fake, And she's always felt overweight". In those four lyric, most females have thought that way sometime in their life while looking through a magazine or TV show. He worded it just right so you can feel or have felt like that 14yr old girl is a that moment.

In the next verse he says a lot of thing that college females have went through in one way or another... "Little girl twenty-one the things that you've already done, Anything to get ahead, And you say you've got a man but he's got another plan, Only wants what you will do instead, Well little girl twenty-one you never thought that this would come, You starve yourself to play the part" These couple of lines are something that females can identify with and understand how she is feeling and why she is doing what she is doing. In high school and in college we come to know many females that are anorexic or bulimic. More so in college females compromise what they believe in to fit in or to get ahead. We are taught its all about you know. Empathy is one of the emotions I felt when I heard these verses. I wanted to help that girl and tell her that there is more to life and that she doesn't have to play that part and wish that she could see how other people see her.

Not only do the words bring out emotion but watching the video makes you feel a certain way as well. As the video starts out it shows a box of make-up and cups of blush and lipstick bushes. I know as a female, it made me think about getting prettied up and feeling good about myself. Then they start to get air bushed and their make up done. That brought on a different emotion of envy, such as "Oh wow, I want to look like that. I wonder what colors their wearing? Or I really like how they did that I should try that". But once their done and all the make up comes of and their back to being normal females, then it brings on another emotion of relief.

This video all together brings out all different kinds of emotion. Which I though was good for the message he was try to put out!

Blog Post: Music Video

In the video "More Beautiful You" it shows that the way we perceive famous people or models to look like isn't real. "Wounder why our perception of beauty is distorted". I believe their are two very distinctive contexts in this video. One being auditory and the other being aesthetics.

If you watch the video and don't listen to any of the words, it starts out with two normal looking females going into a photo shoot. One is a mother and the other is a daughter. Their make-up artist come over and put tons of makeup on them, as well as putting jewels and designs on there faces. Then they proceed to fix their hair and clothes to how they want it. Obviously their faces, hair and clothes don't look the same as when they came in. As they take the pictures of the two females, they are still adjusting things on them and the light settings to make them look more flawless. When the photo shoot is done they go back through and crop their pictures to make them look completely flawless and perfect looking. As they walk out of the photo shoot they are greeted by there father and husband who thinks they look beautiful just the way they are. And show us that famous people still go back to looking just like us before they got a dolled up.

Now if you just listen to the words and not watched the video, you will get the same idea but in more detail. It starts of with a 14yr old looking at a magazine and thinking that is what she needs to look like. I know growing up and still to this day I'll grab and magazine and compare myself to that model. I think many peoples minds are distorted when it comes to beauty because all we see is fake pictures of beauty. Then it goes into that girl growing up an turning 21. She starts to starve herself so that she can be excepted into this world. Everywhere you look, there are sign advertising for no carbs in this or this has low calories in it. Driving down the road you'll see billboard signs and cars with advertisement saying... Join our gym/workout program to get that model body. Also on that billboard they'll have a very buff guy or a thin sexy model on there. Its hard not to pay attention to those advertisements since they are everywhere you go.

But the point of this video is to say that who you are is beautiful enough. We don't have to try to be skinny, buff, tanned, or flawless because we were made just the way we were meant to be. We don't have to try to be someone else to be beautiful because "beauty is in the eye of the beholder."