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ENGL 1301 Visual Analysis Outline Assignment

The document provides instructions and an example outline for analyzing the visual components and rhetorical situation of a movie poster for the film "Unbroken." The outline examines four key images on the poster to show how they convey the film's message of one man's enduring life story. Each image depicts the man in a different difficult situation and helps prove the controlling idea that the poster seeks to convey his enduring spirit through a series of visual elements.

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ENGL 1301 Visual Analysis Outline Assignment

The document provides instructions and an example outline for analyzing the visual components and rhetorical situation of a movie poster for the film "Unbroken." The outline examines four key images on the poster to show how they convey the film's message of one man's enduring life story. Each image depicts the man in a different difficult situation and helps prove the controlling idea that the poster seeks to convey his enduring spirit through a series of visual elements.

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ENGL 1301 Visual Analysis Outline Assignment

Instructions: Following the example of Dr. Nelson in the Visual Analysis Outline Demo video, organize your
analysis of the visual components and rhetorical situation of your visual text. Complete each chart with
information from your visual analysis notes worksheet in order to plot what you need to discuss in each section
of your essay.

Section 1: Introduction

a. Identify the visual text, its genre, and relevant facts about the context of its production:
Visual Text UNBROKEN
Genre Movie poster
Author Universal Studios
Audience Movie watchers
Date 2016

b. Provide a brief, summative description of the visual text:


Description The movie poster draws your attrition first by a man that is placed in the center that is over
that is standing relaxed and is gazing out Ito the distance he is wearing a white t-shirt with
what seems to be a jumpsuit pulled down he also has a watch on his left wrist. He has a
relaxed yet stearin look his face. In the back of him the poster is ivied into 4 sections each
containg a different image of him. The first is him holding up a pice of wood over his
shoulders he is very dirty and skinny he had his back facing the poster. The next pier is him
crossing the fishline he his screaming and leaning forward there is a ribbon infant of him so
that means he won first in that race.The next image is of him in the ocean on a boat with two
other men that are all wearing the same uniform he is shoting a gun.

c. Identify (1) what message the visual text seeks to convey and (2) how the visual text’s design components
help it convey this message (this will be your controlling idea):
Controlling What: Univocal studies what’s to connive a message by showing the life of a man who has
Idea endued and show his story in a brief yet sutler way
How: They do the by charting visual text that show the man in different enduering times.

Section 2: Body Paragraph 1

a. Describe the main point for body paragraph #1 that helps you prove your controlling idea (visual element
+ message):
Point 1 • The man is on a boat next to him his another man. He is pointing a gun up in the air
he is looking up

b. Identify the specific evidence from the visual text that supports the above point:
Described • he holds it up the man next to him is looking up as well. They are in the ocean. The
Evidence 1 water is very calm. There is also another man on a boat right next to them looking up
to the sky as well. The sensory is very dark and gray. They all are wearing the same
uniform .

c. Explain how the specific evidence supports the above point:


Explanation 1 • A man on a boat on the sea holding
up a gun

Section 3: Body Paragraph 2

a. Describe the main point for body paragraph #2 that helps you prove your controlling idea (visual element
+ message):
Point 2 • He is screaming his uniform says Torrance. He is leaning forward.

b. Identify the specific evidence from the visual text that supports the above point:
Described • His body is leaded to one side. His muscles are contracting. There is a crowed behind
Evidence 2 him cheering. They are standing up holding posters.

c. Explain how the specific evidence supports the above point:


Explanation 2 • A man crossing a finish line
Section 4: Body Paragraph 3

a. Describe the main point for body paragraph #3 that helps you prove your controlling idea (visual element
+ message):
Point 3 • The man has no shirt only pants. We can only see his back.

b. Identify the specific evidence from the visual text that supports the above point:
Described • . There seems to bee some scratches on his back , he is very dirty and unclean. He is
Evidence 3 facing the sunlight. He is caring a pice of wood over his shoulders. He is looking
down. He is in an open area there is nothing around him except clouds. There is no
color everything is Gary and dark.

c. Explain how the specific evidence supports the above point:


Explanation 3 • A man that is dirty holding up a pice of wood above his head

Section 5: Conclusion

a. Reiterate (1) what message the visual text seeks to convey and (2) how the visual text’s design components
help it convey this message:
Controlling What: A man crossing a finish line
Idea

How:running

b. Describe why your insight about how the author uses visual components to convey the message is important
/ significant:
Importance • A man standing in the center of the page

c. Describe what readers should do with this knowledge:


Implications • He is looking in a different direction he has his hand down and relaxed

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