visual rhetoric 1

1) Welcome to class2) Who….aree…youuu? You-oo-ooo-

ooo?3) The syllabus4) A little visual rhetoric interlude5) Learning the tech: what we’re going

to do

The Activity:Two Lies and the TruthYou get five minutes to write down your name along with three statements about yourself.

You will then hand the card to the person to your right, who will read the three things. As a class, we have to try to guess which one is true.

A) I was recruited to play inside linebacker at IU but shredded my knee during my first practice.

B) I once sang the DeVinyls song “I Touch Myself” in the rain on the back of a flatbed truck to a live radio audience.

C) I spent a summer working as the driver for Indiana legend John Cougar.

Please navigate to Canvas on your computer. We’re going to do the dry but necessary reading of policies and overviews. Please go to the “modules” section (it should load when you open, but if not).

And now an interlude that will sort of gloss what we’re going to be doing.

Let’s talk about this guy…

Look at this…

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1) That’s the original2) Clay Davis from HBO’s The Wire3) Sarah Palin, former VP candidate4) Alfred E. Newman, from MAD magazine5) The Dude, from The Big Lebowski6) The Joker, specifically Heath Ledger from The Dark Knight7) Admiral Akbar from Star Wars8) Big Bird from Sesame Street9) Tyler Durden from Fight Club10) R2D2 from the Star Wars11) The Empty Chair that Clint Eastwood talked to12) A Hopi, American Indian tribal member13) Dr. Doom, a villain deserving of better than that horrible Fantastic 4 movie14) Benson, from the old TV series Soap and later his own show, Benson15) Optimus Prime, leader of those pesky Autobots

For next class, read the first 3 chapters of Robin Williams’ Non-Designer’s Design Book. There’s a link to the book in Canvas for you to open.

In class we will play with Photoshop for the first time and begin our first design task. Bring a picture of your face.