Interpretive Leap

Analysis of “Now or Never” by outasight

The song Now or Never is a very happy upbeat song. The music video for this song is a video showing teenagers being outside having the time of their lives by doing a lot of hoodrat things while they are still young. They go out and they are just being chaotic throughout the town, they cut off the top of a car to make it into a convertible.  This video is basically just showing how teenagers need to go out and have the most fun that they can while they are still young. However, in a different video, the song is used as background music to the video. This video is about a bunch of extreme sports thrill seekers having the time of their lives.  The two videos have many different similarities and differences in them.  The similarities of the videos are that they both have people that are young and need to have fun while they still can. They are both videos with a lot of bright colors which gives an overall happy feeling to the viewers.  Both videos have a lot of different people smiling and loving life.  The differences in the two videos are the people in the videos are doing completely different things than eachother. In the music video the teenagers are trying to make the most of their young lives, while in the extreme video, by devinsupertramp, the people are trying to have as many crazy adventures as possible. They’re risk taking thrill seekers just trying to get some adrenaline rushes while they are young.  These videos are very inspiring  and they make me want to live my life to the fullest while I am young and able to.

Process and Product

My writing process started when my professor first told us that we had to write an essay about arguments.  The way my mind works is that I have ideas floating around and I need to find a topic that will cover all of my ideas. When I was looking for a commercial to write about, I was looking for a commercial that had a lot of different types of persuasion in it.  I didn't think I was going to find a commercial because all of the commercials I was watching only had a few types in it. Then I found the Dawn dish soap commercial.   This commercial was a good choice for me because I could relate to the college student that had to was the dishes and didn't want to change the dish water.  I really liked this commercial because it used ethos pathos and logos.  I know how to write about those three types of appeals because in AP English last year we would analyze how people would use those forms of writing.  I am glad we had to write our drafts before the due date because if we had not had to do that I still wouldn't have even started my essay.  I always wait until the last minute and that is a terrible characteristic to have. Also hearing my piers ideas on my paper helped me see the flaws of my writings which helped me a lot. I feel like this course will help my writing much more than my high school courses.