Music as an Argument

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiPzU75P9FA


The "Stand by Me" video uses elements of rhetoric to propose their argument. Their argument is that people are the same and should come together as human beings. They used images and clips of people from all around the world singing the same song whose lyrics are, "and darlin, darlin, stand...by me". Those lyrics state that whoever you are no matter race, religion, height or weight you will need somebody to stand by you.

The elements of rhetoric that they use in the video, for one the invention of the idea. The creator of the video must've me with artist from around the world before he even began to formulate such things as payments and prices. Even before that he probably wrote down and conveyed with himself the ways to execute.

The disposition of the idea was next, which means the way he executes. He probably met with the artist who none of those are professionals, and talked prices ad flight plans. Then he had to get a camera crew, and pay for their tickets to all of these places around the globe.

The style of the video was emotional in a sense. it made you feel that we should come together as a people and support one another. He achieved this by the choice of the song and the appearance of the people who were seen performing on the video.

The memory was kept by rehearsals and practice by the performing street artists. I'm guessing that this was not a one take situation, and that it took days of  recording and do overs to perfect it into the famous video it is today.

The delivery was put into a five minute short film of emotional singing from street artists from different parts of the world. It cut from artist to artist, and ended back with the first singer it started with. The way it was put together made it seem powerful.