Introductions Analysis

Both introductions are very interesting.  Each one beautifully introduces us into visual rhetoric in their own unique ways.  Let me first discuss how the Wes Anderson introduction is very effective in showing us the power of visual rhetoric.  Such a simple color palette shows us how Anderson can use such simple shades of bland colors to convey very powerful messages.  Both blogs referenced briefly talk about the palette but leave most of the page to the image overcoming the screen such that the reader is consumed by it to interpret for themselves.

Next we look at the two images of the blue sky.  The first image merely shows the image of the chart comparing the wavelengths to reflective scattered intensity.  The second image shows us a simple picture of a beautiful blue sky.  The title speaks 'on the blueness of the sky...' and then proceeds to show the two images side by side.  The one is a technical chart which is not pleasing to look at, whereas on the contrary the second is simple image of the sky.  Of the two introductions, I feel that each serve a very different purpose. The first, the palette, shows us how something simple can be interpreted many different ways.  The second, the blue sky, shows us how one thing can be shown in different forms.  Both serve a wonderful and necessary purpose.

Images Credit: http://fluctuatingluminously.blogspot.com/