RCL

Speech Outline Revised

Speech Outline:

  • Grabber: Send our troops home now. Draft beer not students. How many more? What about… Make War Not Love?
  • Introduction to the rhetorical situation: In 1968, Emilio Antonio released his documentary In the Year of the Pig
    • Exigence: Vietnam War is going on, the public’s distrust of the government and the US’ chances of winning are weakening (due in part to the Tet Offensive). People are becoming increasingly anti-war
    • The cultural movements of the time (counterculture, hippie movement, anti-Vietnam War)
  • Intro to the artifact: With the public’s lack of knowledge, the film chronicles the history of the war and highlights American’s ignorance of Vietnam
    • It has strong anti-war themes
    • The artifact is used as the cover for the documentary
  • First lens: The visual rhetoric of the artifact
    • Dirty, beaten down soldier in the middle of battle. Weary, tired, grim face
      • Not something like a clean, smiling soldier in propaganda
        • Pathos à the audience feels bad for the soldier (maybe reminds them of a brother, friend, nephew, or son
  • Second lens: Kairotic moment of the artifact
    • The contrast between the photo’s message and the context of it in an anti-war documentary resembles the same chaos that was going on in the US
    • The US was deeply divided and the photo highlights this
    • Because the situation in Vietnam was so hopeless, being confronted with the political divide and chaos makes the audience want Vietnam to end even more. Maybe that way things can start going back to “normal”
  • Third lens: The audience doesn’t realize at first that it says “Make War Not Love”
    • It subverts the commonplace, “Make Love Not War,” which was extremely popular at the time
    • The audience is able to understand that the soldier must be in support of the war in order to survive … this uses pathos and tugs at the hearts of the audience
  • Wrapping it up: Even though the photo superficially declares support for the war, because of the visual rhetoric, kairotic moment it exists in, and the subversion of the commonplace … the American people are more likely to walk away losing faith in the war
    • Successfully promotes an anti-war message

3 thoughts on “Speech Outline Revised”

  1. I love your hook, it sets up your speech so perfectly. The word subversion is such a good word to use for analyzing this ad. It’s what stood out to me in the intro. You had the perfect tone for this speech and it helped to emphasize the specific points that are important. Your descriptive word use really brings the ad alive and explains the context which is so necessary for analyzing this ad. Really good!!

  2. I really think you did a wonderful job in maintaining a clear voice throughout the entirety of the speech. Additionally, your vocabulary was great and really elevated your speech. If anything, maybe engage more intimately with your audience in one way or another, either by using more hand gestures or asking rhetorical questions.

  3. The speech was great! Your delivery was perfect for the audience’s comprehension, which really added to the impressiveness of it all. The word choices were very sophisticated but not too much that it made it hard to understand, either. The visuals were great for keeping the audience engaged, but also not too much that it took attention away from what you were saying either. Great job!! 🙂
    ******I commented on the VoiceThread Speech before class, didn’t realize it had to be on the blog here instead!! SO SORRY!

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