Stand By Me

In the music video Stand By Me by Playing for change,Mark Johnson uses elements of rhetoric to create an argument. First is invention which is finding the ideas or proof, Johnson needed to know in order to make the video he needed people to sing and play the song and to know the idea of the song. Next is Disposition which is the arrangement of ideas and arguments, the video is laid out as showing different people singing in different states and countries with different tools to make the music. Then Style is the language suitable to the subject or audience, the song appealed to me as no matter what race, gender, if you're filthy rice or dirt poor you still need someone to be by your side through thick or thin.Third is Memory which is rhetor as in he or she knows the subject matter, usually you would need to know the knowledge of the message but the message is pretty self explanatory as in you dont need to know anything you tend to just think who is that one person who would stand by you. Fourth and foremost is Knowledge created in this video is who is that one person you would want to tell everything too. And last but not least is Delivery which is actualization of a finished composition, as to how is the message delivered and Johnson deliveres the message of "to love" through a song with nice melody with catch phrases. This image is in the music video and I feel like it touches me because its just this man in his natural living environment. Throughout the whole video its like that. You can see different people in different countries, or states and how they live and how they use different materials to sing along with this song. You don't see them on stage infant of a lot of people you see them as if they were just living their every day normal life. Each clip of the video is someone new singing the same song giving off a message as no matter where or what you are you need someone on your side when you tumble and fall.

Work cited:

Johnson, Mark. "Stand by me." Youtube, 6 Nov. 2008https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-TVg40ExMh-TVg40ExM