Stephany Weise
English 111
Noah Tysick
October 19th, 2015
Everyone has heard a song that’s hit them in a deeper place, caused them to express some extreme of an emotion, atau simply an outburst of energy. The artists and publishers of the video that coincide with these songs strive to bring about these emotions, to elicit excitement from the viewers, in some level atau another. They use lighting, various added sounds, like traffic, atau the sound of a crowd. Visuals that coincide with the music, as in a door banging at the same moment the drum set hits the bas, bass really hard. These effects leave lasting impressions on the minds of the viewers, and generally leave them playing the song over and over in their heads, sometimes at two in the morning when they’re supposed to be sleeping. Two video will be analyzed in this essay, Imagine Dragon’s “Demons”, and My Chemical Romance’s “Teenagers”. Two very different songs, with very different visual approaches to their videos.
Imagine naga is an alternative rock band, based in the US, who’s fame skyrocketed with the release of the album, “Radioactive”. The judul song spent a grand deal of time at the puncak, atas of the charts, and eventually was joined oleh another song in the same album, “Demons.” This musik video isn’t very exciting, to be blatantly honest. There aren’t any pyrotechnics, no strange places atau violence. It begins with a dark room, then the sound of a cheering crowd. A concert. Blue lights flash on to dimly illuminate the lead singer, as well as the audience, most of which have a hand in the air, some open, others holding only a few fingers up. The crowd goes silent, and the man begins to sing, slowly, intensely, with very clear enunciation on every few words. Aside from two atau three accompanying instruments, it is quiet, the hands are waving slowly back and forth, as if everything is in slow motion, aside from the words. As the bernyanyi builds in intensity, the words growing stronger, faster, a bit louder, a woman in the crowd comes to focus, she seems to be calm, but distant, like she’s somewhere else. The camera zooms in on her eyes, and the scene changes. She is sitting alone, at a funeral. For one of her parents, I believe. The words that accompany this scene change, “ I wanna hide the truth, I wanna shelter you, But with the beast inside, There’s nowhere we can hide, No matter what we breed, We still are made of greed, This is my kingdom come, This is my kingdom come.” As this stanza ends, the crowd suddenly erupts into cheers and yelling, arms waving, jumping up and down, the light flash to red, illuminating everyone as the chorus is sung for the first time through. The lights go blue, everything slows down again as the detik stanza begins, the camera focusing on a man, tall, thin, with long dark hair. He is smiling, but it fades as the scene changes, going into a bedroom, He’s shirtless, peering into a mirror. Obviously self conscious and unhappy with his appearance. There are weights on the floor. The words accompanying this scene change, “At the curtain’s call, It's the last of all, When the lights fade out, All the sinners crawl, So they dug your grave, And the masquerade, Will come calling out, At the mess anda made.” The scene returns to the blue concert, everything still in slow motion aside from the music, and the camera crosses another young man, a kap, hood pulled up to cover his blackened eye. It returns to him, zooming in on his eyes, and the scene goes to that of a livingroom. The boy is playing video games, and a man walks in, hitting him in the back of the head with his fist, a bir bottle clutched in it. He moves out of the shot, and then the bottle smashes on the dinding behind the boy, at the same time the drummer hits his cymbals, the sound bringing the scene back to the concert, which is lit up red again as the chorus starts, the crowd once again moving lebih quickly, dancing, highly energetic. As it ends, the lights fade back to blue and the camera finds an older, colored man, and the camera zooms into a scene overseas. He is dressed in military clothing, sweating, clearly exhausted, with a fallen comrade over his shoulders. The lyrics at this point are “They say it's what anda make, I say it's up to fate, It's woven in my soul, I need to let anda go, Your eyes, they shine so bright, I wanna save that light, I can't escape this now, Unless anda tampil me how.” The scene returns to the cheering and screaming crowd as the last chorus is played through. As the musik finishes, the scene goes blue again, everything slowing down, and the camera zooms in on the eyes of the lead singer, blacking out the video and effectively ending it.
This video appeals to Aristotle’s appeal of Pathos. Everyone has their demons. It doesn’t matter who a person is, they have things that they struggle with. The loss of a loved one, body image, abuse, traumatic military experiences. This video makes use of subdued lighting and minimal graphics to emphasise the words, the blue gave a depressing atmosphere, the slowed movements of the crowd put the focus on what was being said, and it made the movement to the other scenes lebih dramatic. The red light and faster movements of the crowd created excitement, making the transitions to the selanjutnya stanza even lebih dramatic and, honestly, depressing. This video is also dedicated to a boy named Tyler, who had one of the biggest demons of all, cancer. His courage inspired the band’s menulis of this song, and even though he lost his battle with his demon, continues to support and inspire people with his story, and now this song.
The detik video I chose was written and performed oleh the band My Chemical Romance. A very populer punk rock band, My Chemical Romance, MCR for short, makes a wide variety of very unusual pieces of music, and Teenagers is one of the strangest of them all. It is set in a high school auditorium, in the fashion of a pep assembly, perhaps. The stage is red, with cheerleaders along the back wall, talking and looking bored. The singer behinds, with a gitar accompaniment, as if he’s just doing a sound check. The cheerleaders begin to dance, as the doors to the side are banged on, though they are chained shut. As the song progresses, the cheerleaders dance rather provocatively, hips moving to the very obvious beat, as the doors are opened repetitively against the chains, following the same beat. As the musik speeds up, the chorus beginning, the teenagers break in, all running into the gym at once. As the chorus comes to an end, the cheerleaders don gas masks, and the teenagers are all sitting in the rows of chairs in the gym, blank faced stares on the band as they continue through the selanjutnya stanza. The cheerleaders continue their provocative dance through the stanza, dancing around the band members. As the chorus begins again the red drapes across the back of the stage drop, revealing the image of an atomic bomb explosion repeated three times. The teenagers all stand, and repeat a sort of fist bumping motion in unison as the cheerleaders pick up nightsticks and continue their weird dancing, pretending to shoot the singer as the song goes into a gitar solo. The crowd of teens pretty much becomes a mob from there, as the chorus is repeated several lebih times, they swarm the stage, stealing the instruments and trampling the band, confetti falling from the ceiling. It ends with the camera focused on the lead singer, on the floor, screaming, a look of pure panic on his face.
This song was difficult to determine the meaning behind, to analyze which of Aristotle’s appeals where used. It is also Pathos, in my opinion. The band wants to tampil how the world is stereotyping teenagers. Teenagers encourages kids to speak up, instead of act out, as the video portrays, they even post a message at the end of the song. “Violence is Never the Answer. If anda feel like akting out, Reach Out.” The band illustrates the stereotype diberikan to teenagers and young adults, and challenges us to change it.
In conclusion, both of these songs use the appeal of Pathos to convey emotions. They each use the same type of setting, a stage, in very different manners, but they both get their points across with these methods, the type of lighting, the visual effects. One of them shows that everyone has their demons, something they’re battling, and the other proves that stereotypes, and violence, need to be ended. These video will leave a lasting impression on anyone who tampilan them, and will prove these points without ever giving a speech, blowing something up, atau menulis a long and boring essay.
English 111
Noah Tysick
October 19th, 2015
Everyone has heard a song that’s hit them in a deeper place, caused them to express some extreme of an emotion, atau simply an outburst of energy. The artists and publishers of the video that coincide with these songs strive to bring about these emotions, to elicit excitement from the viewers, in some level atau another. They use lighting, various added sounds, like traffic, atau the sound of a crowd. Visuals that coincide with the music, as in a door banging at the same moment the drum set hits the bas, bass really hard. These effects leave lasting impressions on the minds of the viewers, and generally leave them playing the song over and over in their heads, sometimes at two in the morning when they’re supposed to be sleeping. Two video will be analyzed in this essay, Imagine Dragon’s “Demons”, and My Chemical Romance’s “Teenagers”. Two very different songs, with very different visual approaches to their videos.
Imagine naga is an alternative rock band, based in the US, who’s fame skyrocketed with the release of the album, “Radioactive”. The judul song spent a grand deal of time at the puncak, atas of the charts, and eventually was joined oleh another song in the same album, “Demons.” This musik video isn’t very exciting, to be blatantly honest. There aren’t any pyrotechnics, no strange places atau violence. It begins with a dark room, then the sound of a cheering crowd. A concert. Blue lights flash on to dimly illuminate the lead singer, as well as the audience, most of which have a hand in the air, some open, others holding only a few fingers up. The crowd goes silent, and the man begins to sing, slowly, intensely, with very clear enunciation on every few words. Aside from two atau three accompanying instruments, it is quiet, the hands are waving slowly back and forth, as if everything is in slow motion, aside from the words. As the bernyanyi builds in intensity, the words growing stronger, faster, a bit louder, a woman in the crowd comes to focus, she seems to be calm, but distant, like she’s somewhere else. The camera zooms in on her eyes, and the scene changes. She is sitting alone, at a funeral. For one of her parents, I believe. The words that accompany this scene change, “ I wanna hide the truth, I wanna shelter you, But with the beast inside, There’s nowhere we can hide, No matter what we breed, We still are made of greed, This is my kingdom come, This is my kingdom come.” As this stanza ends, the crowd suddenly erupts into cheers and yelling, arms waving, jumping up and down, the light flash to red, illuminating everyone as the chorus is sung for the first time through. The lights go blue, everything slows down again as the detik stanza begins, the camera focusing on a man, tall, thin, with long dark hair. He is smiling, but it fades as the scene changes, going into a bedroom, He’s shirtless, peering into a mirror. Obviously self conscious and unhappy with his appearance. There are weights on the floor. The words accompanying this scene change, “At the curtain’s call, It's the last of all, When the lights fade out, All the sinners crawl, So they dug your grave, And the masquerade, Will come calling out, At the mess anda made.” The scene returns to the blue concert, everything still in slow motion aside from the music, and the camera crosses another young man, a kap, hood pulled up to cover his blackened eye. It returns to him, zooming in on his eyes, and the scene goes to that of a livingroom. The boy is playing video games, and a man walks in, hitting him in the back of the head with his fist, a bir bottle clutched in it. He moves out of the shot, and then the bottle smashes on the dinding behind the boy, at the same time the drummer hits his cymbals, the sound bringing the scene back to the concert, which is lit up red again as the chorus starts, the crowd once again moving lebih quickly, dancing, highly energetic. As it ends, the lights fade back to blue and the camera finds an older, colored man, and the camera zooms into a scene overseas. He is dressed in military clothing, sweating, clearly exhausted, with a fallen comrade over his shoulders. The lyrics at this point are “They say it's what anda make, I say it's up to fate, It's woven in my soul, I need to let anda go, Your eyes, they shine so bright, I wanna save that light, I can't escape this now, Unless anda tampil me how.” The scene returns to the cheering and screaming crowd as the last chorus is played through. As the musik finishes, the scene goes blue again, everything slowing down, and the camera zooms in on the eyes of the lead singer, blacking out the video and effectively ending it.
This video appeals to Aristotle’s appeal of Pathos. Everyone has their demons. It doesn’t matter who a person is, they have things that they struggle with. The loss of a loved one, body image, abuse, traumatic military experiences. This video makes use of subdued lighting and minimal graphics to emphasise the words, the blue gave a depressing atmosphere, the slowed movements of the crowd put the focus on what was being said, and it made the movement to the other scenes lebih dramatic. The red light and faster movements of the crowd created excitement, making the transitions to the selanjutnya stanza even lebih dramatic and, honestly, depressing. This video is also dedicated to a boy named Tyler, who had one of the biggest demons of all, cancer. His courage inspired the band’s menulis of this song, and even though he lost his battle with his demon, continues to support and inspire people with his story, and now this song.
The detik video I chose was written and performed oleh the band My Chemical Romance. A very populer punk rock band, My Chemical Romance, MCR for short, makes a wide variety of very unusual pieces of music, and Teenagers is one of the strangest of them all. It is set in a high school auditorium, in the fashion of a pep assembly, perhaps. The stage is red, with cheerleaders along the back wall, talking and looking bored. The singer behinds, with a gitar accompaniment, as if he’s just doing a sound check. The cheerleaders begin to dance, as the doors to the side are banged on, though they are chained shut. As the song progresses, the cheerleaders dance rather provocatively, hips moving to the very obvious beat, as the doors are opened repetitively against the chains, following the same beat. As the musik speeds up, the chorus beginning, the teenagers break in, all running into the gym at once. As the chorus comes to an end, the cheerleaders don gas masks, and the teenagers are all sitting in the rows of chairs in the gym, blank faced stares on the band as they continue through the selanjutnya stanza. The cheerleaders continue their provocative dance through the stanza, dancing around the band members. As the chorus begins again the red drapes across the back of the stage drop, revealing the image of an atomic bomb explosion repeated three times. The teenagers all stand, and repeat a sort of fist bumping motion in unison as the cheerleaders pick up nightsticks and continue their weird dancing, pretending to shoot the singer as the song goes into a gitar solo. The crowd of teens pretty much becomes a mob from there, as the chorus is repeated several lebih times, they swarm the stage, stealing the instruments and trampling the band, confetti falling from the ceiling. It ends with the camera focused on the lead singer, on the floor, screaming, a look of pure panic on his face.
This song was difficult to determine the meaning behind, to analyze which of Aristotle’s appeals where used. It is also Pathos, in my opinion. The band wants to tampil how the world is stereotyping teenagers. Teenagers encourages kids to speak up, instead of act out, as the video portrays, they even post a message at the end of the song. “Violence is Never the Answer. If anda feel like akting out, Reach Out.” The band illustrates the stereotype diberikan to teenagers and young adults, and challenges us to change it.
In conclusion, both of these songs use the appeal of Pathos to convey emotions. They each use the same type of setting, a stage, in very different manners, but they both get their points across with these methods, the type of lighting, the visual effects. One of them shows that everyone has their demons, something they’re battling, and the other proves that stereotypes, and violence, need to be ended. These video will leave a lasting impression on anyone who tampilan them, and will prove these points without ever giving a speech, blowing something up, atau menulis a long and boring essay.
Alicaria
Age
Few hundred years, doesn’t really pay attention. Feels young, so that’s what counts, right?
Personality
Whorish. Mischevious, alluring, Foul minded
Appearance
Whatever anda want, baby. atau whatever she wants, maybe?
Weapon
Just her charming good looks. And ability to manipulate your mind. atau cause hallucinations. atau some nasty Other form.
History
She’s been leading men and women to their deaths as long as she can remember. It only recently became a problem, since some malaikat wannabe started hunting her down. Something about being a disgrace to everything that ever existed?
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]Age: 30
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]Nationality: Caucasian
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]Magician Title: Rogue Magician
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Discipline: Expert of Psychic Magicka, adept at Combat Magicka
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]Appearance: Tall, about 6'3", with long blonde hair and green eyes, well built and muscular.
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]Attire: Jeans and a jaket over an old t-shirt usually.
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]Weapon: He carries a Wakazashi, a 12-inch blade similar to a Katana, usually concealed under his jacket, and a Glock.
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]Backstory] Anthony spent most of his life dedicated to his discipline, becoming an excellent Psychic magician, He had a promising future, but when he was 18 the pressure to succeed became too great for the young man, and he turned away from his teachers, friends, and family, going rogue and never turning back, finding a place in the Cult of Occulus.
Please note that Jedi's will only be introduced in the detik installment of this story, I.E. Episode 2. If there is any complaint, please message me and we can see about making a compromise, otherwise feel free to go in depth with your character.
Message if you'd like to be a pilot.
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halaman awal Planet
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Age~ 18
Nationality~ Scottish
Army~ English Royal Army
Title~ Squire
Role~ Squire things
Appearance~ Shoulder length dark hair, some chin hair, dark eyes with bags, slight muscle, slightly above average height.
Equipment~ One handed sword, cheap leather armor
Family~ Timothy was born to a poor farming family in Scotland. When he was a boy, his brother joined the Templar order and went on expedition he never came back from, leaving his mother depressed and sad. He comforted her until she had another child.
Character Summary~ After that, he joined the army. Being as untalented as he was however, he was made to be a squire. Up until now, and he's been in the army for two years now, in ranking limbo.
~ Jack Warwick
Age-
~ 30
Base Personality-
~ Brash, Cunning and Manipulative, Respected oleh some, Feared oleh most.
Appearance-
~ kastanye, chestnut corporate cut hair, clean shaven, sky-blue eyes, lean/ muscular build, taller than most(Casts a large shadow).
Attire-
~ Fine clothing topped oleh a classic hat
Weapon Specialization-
~ Pistols and Blades
Family-
~ Millionaire brother to the Champion of Neos; Mason Warwick
cinta Ties-
~ His brother is the only remaining member of his family, and not only loves him, but holds a deep reverence towards.
Designated Class-
~ Majority
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>*Nick-names¬ wolf
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>Age¬ 23
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>Personality¬ Quiet and untrusting, quick to flee, has a very short temper and almost no patience for other people. >
>Title¬ Wildling
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>House¬ none
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>Appearance¬ slim, fairly small in stature, five foot four in height, delicate ccurves. Pale aakin and vibrant rred hair, considered lucky oleh her people. She also has brilliant eyes, steel blue in color.
>Attire¬ Heavy furs and clothing of the wildlings
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>Weapon¬ she wields a spear and dagger stolen from dead watchmen, but excels with a bow, another stolen weapons
Age; 40
Rank/ Standing; Lord of Hafgen Moor
Appearance; Tall height, Lean build, Hazel eyes, with Dark locks.
Weapon; Coldsteel Longsword
History; The House of Rodrick was once a great Noble Family in the Kingdom of men. It breached the divide between the West and the East. This land was a furtive paradise, dense with thick forests and fields of green. naga at one time roamed the landscape peacefully living with their human neighbors. Everything changed when the Conquest to destroy the wild naga erupted. House Rodrick faught to defend the Dragons, yet was terribly defeated in battle. With their lands torn, their lord dead, and the naga all gone, the once Noble house of Rodrick fell to hard times.
Hayden was only thirteen when his father died, and he became the Lord of the Moor. After over two decades Hayden has worked tirelessly to make ends meet, to feed his people, to uphold the laws of old...
Age; 23
Rank/ Standing; A loyal knight to a poor Lord and his family.
Appearance; Tall, well built with bright hazel eyes and black hair that doesn’t quite lay right.
Weapon; A longsword atau bow, he is adept at each.
History; He knows little of his origins, only that his mother died and he was left to be raised oleh a peasant family, who followed the gentle rule of a kind lord. He grew up fighting for the family of this lord, Kibal, protecting his land and family from the greed of the others.
Dragon (If applicable.) Richtan, the black.
Age:21
Nationality: Norse
Occupation: knight of templar order
Rank:knight
Appearance:
Equipment: standard templar
Martial Proficiency:Swords man close quarters
Entry to the Order: He was adopted oleh Sir Leonard Nevieve of the Knights Templar, after he lost his parents to a bandit raid on his villiage. Troy lived with The Templar Knight in paris.
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Nickname~ Leaf
Race~ Human
Age~ 25
halaman awal Planet~ none
Faction~ The First Order
Rank in Faction~ Master Sergeant
Role~ Stormsniper
Skills~ Elite Sniper. Proficient in CQC. Has Excellent accuracy
Appearance~ Well-built. Dark hair
His stormtrooper armour features a blue pauldron to distinguish himself from the basic infantry
Weapon(s)~ RT-97C heavy blaster senapan and SE-44C blaster pistol
Backstory~ FN-134F was born on the Outer-Rims of the galaxy and taken from there oleh First Order recruiters. He was trained as new batches of specialized troopers, specializing as a sniper. Personally he had honed his close-quarter combats. His superior let him be as he was a loyal and efficient soldier.
Age: 39
Nationality: French Swiss
Occupation: Instructor
Rank: Knight
Appearance:
Equipment: Halberd, basted sword.
Martial Proficiency: Swiss Voulge
Entry to the Order: Was a blacksmith who went to Crusade. Was knighted oleh Leonard Nevieve for service to God and was initiated into the Templar Order.
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