Journal 3

I take my three artifacts from three adaptations of the poem, “somebody almost walked off wid alla my stuff” which is one of twenty poems of the choreopoem “for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf” by Ntozake Shange. She coined the term “choreopoem”, to describe her work. The theater piece is a series of separate poems with interconnected stories accompanied by dance and music.

They are: the poem itself, the poem in the adapted drama film, and the screenplay version. What is unique of each – and what I choose to define – is the design of which it is delivered. Differences in the elements of a motion picture film versus a screenplay, are evident. Moreso, the actress Loretta Devine delivers the role of Lady in Green in both the film and the screenplay. One notices the changes made to accommodate the medium.

This is what we can take away regarding rhetoric, the display of text is appropriate for the medium of which it is delivered.

Hopefully, through this project, I will conclude Wysocki’s view on the role of design, as the means of expressing and not expressing direct mentioning of an overarching theme. What I mean by not expressing is – especially when comparing three different mediums, is the acknowledgement of why, in the screenplay, Lady in Green spreads her legs and in the film, she does not. The “not” is also a contributing factor to analyzing design.

From Gladwell we can conclude that by clear use of a material (i.e.. paper to promote creative thinking), it is not a waste, no matter the advancements.

From Edbauer’s article, we can conclude about circulation that text has continued conversation between audience, composer, and other texts, and that this creates a harmonious, ever-changing contribution to rhetoric.