Group 2:

Gabrielle, Rashmi, Mattt

Color Theory: Red

In the visual arts, color theory is a body of practical guidance to color mixing and the visual impacts of specific color combination.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_theory

Red is the color of fire and blood, so it is associated with energy, war, danger, strength, power, determination as well as passion, desire, and love.

Red is a very emotionally intense color. It enhances human metabolism, increases respiration rate, and raises blood pressure. It has very high visibility, which is why stop signs, stoplights, and fire equipment are usually painted red. In heraldry, red is used to indicate courage. It is a color found in many national flags.

Red brings text and images to the foreground. Use it as an accent color to stimulate people to make quick decisions; it is a perfect color for 'Buy Now' or 'Click Here' buttons on Internet banners and websites. In advertising, red is often used to evoke erotic feelings (red lips, red nails, red-light districts, 'Lady in Red', etc). Red is widely used to indicate danger (high voltage signs, traffic lights). This color is also commonly associated with energy, so you can use it when promoting energy drinks, games, cars, items related to sports and high physical activity.

Light red represents joy, sexuality, passion, sensitivity, and love.
Pink signifies romance, love, and friendship. It denotes feminine qualities and passiveness.
Dark red is associated with vigor, willpower, rage, anger, leadership, courage, longing, malice, and wrath.
Brown suggests stability and denotes masculine qualities.
Reddish-brown is associated with harvest and fall.

Source: http://www.color-wheel-pro.com/color-meaning.html

Visual Orientation: Gestalt Law of Continuity

The mind continues visual, auditory, and kinetic patters even after sensory perception has ceased — or when the pattern is technically “broken.”

Examples: An image of a cross is typically perceived as two lines intersecting rather than four separate line segments meeting at the center. Also, a shape that is partially covered by another shape, say one rectangle by another, is typically perceived as being a complete and continuous shape rather than a segmented one behind the front shape.

Source: http://rhetology.com/2009/04/23/law-of-continuity/

Photography: Point of View Shot

The point of view is the perspective from which a picture is taken in order for the viewer to perceive a picture in a certain way.  The position, direction and height of the camera define the point of view of a picture. You can change the way your subject is perceived by changing the camera position. If you are photographing something that you want to seem very tall, arrange the shot so that the camera is looking upwards. This is done routinely in movies to make a actors look taller or shorter than they actually are. John Wayne, for example, was almost always filmed with the camera looking slightly up at him. He wasn’t a small man, but by filming him this way he looked bigger than life. The mood and effectiveness of a picture can be very much altered by what is in the background. 

Source: http://www.goodphotographyinfo.com/lesson4_point_of_view.html

What are your thoughts?

Can you think of any examples of any of these rhetorical strategies in action? Get creative!