I'm really excited about the next assignment I'm planning for my students. It's an analysis of some piece of visual rhetoric, and while the suggested assignment they gave us has the students analyzing an advertisement, I've decided to leave it open to all kinds of visual rhetoric. So far in class we've talked about photos and political posters (I brought in my Obama inauguration poster for in-class analysis) and movie trailers (comparing Cloverfield and The Dark Knight). On Wednesday we're talking about graphic novels and comics using Maus and hopefully next Wednesday we'll get to music videos.
I handed out the assignment sheet today and this might be just one of my "my students are the darlingest!" moments, but I got an email from one of them tonight proclaiming his own enthusiasm about the assignment and asking if he could do a video game trailer. I'm always excited when students seem to be leaving the beaten path and the trailer he sent me is fun, too, in a video game kind of way:
I'm excited to see what he pulls out of here.