PSA’s or Public Service Announcements serve as a great way to promote bullying, raise awareness, and share personal stories. I discovered one of these PSA’s on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY7Gvq0P4hc) that I would like to share with you and give my rhetorical Analysis of it.
The video is called, “ The Price of Silence”. This video was approximately 2 minutes long. PSA are normally under a minute. I understand they wanted to point out the fact that no one was helping this young man in anyway at first. But instead of standing up to this bully they were just going along with whatever he was doing. However, I felt this part of the video could have been a little more short and to the point.
The use of quotes in this video was very inspiring as they used a quote from Albert Einstein, “The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.” I thought this was a very clever quote that coordinated well with their title as well as their story line. At first the other children won’t speak out or go up against the other bully as they fear him. However, it only took one person to break the silence. One person to motivate others to step up and make a difference. That is the message of this PSA. This PSA wants to motivate others to break the silence and be the first in their community or school to make the difference.
At the end of the PSA it says, “Stand up for a vitum, they will remember you forever”. I thought they could have come up with a little more catchy saying at the end to really put that final thought in peoples head to motivate them to really get out there and make a difference by standing up to bullying.
Stop Bullying.
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