1. VISUAL RHETORIC IN THE EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY: A VISUAL RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF JOHN LENNON VS. BILL O' REILLY Prepared by Johansen Quijano as a partial requirement for Dr. Yuejiao Zhang’s Visual Rhetoric course.

2. A Bit of Background Information  September 26th, 2010  Lloyd Leonard Ahlquist  Peter Alexander Shukoff  Audience is of utmost importance

3. Questioning the Official Story  Is it really just about the audience?  Do the Epic Rap Battles have any meaning to them?  Do the Epic Rap Battles make any political, social, or religious claim?  If so, what is it?  How do the episodes make a claim and support it?

4. Why This Episode?  First in the series  Each character clearly represents an ideology  It set the tone for the rest of the series

5. Segmenting the Video  Section 1 – Intro  Section 2 – Lennon 1  Section 3 – O’ Reilly 1  Section 4 – Lennon 2  Section 5 – O’ Reilly 2  Section 6 – Closing

6. Light and the Lennon-Space

7. The Darkness of the O’ Reilly Void

8. Facial Features

9. Proximity to the Viewer

10. Frames to Keep Them Separate

11. The Coming Together

12. So Who Won?

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