Death Row Meals

                The two website that show the death penalty were both interesting to look at. In “No Seconds,” it showed more visual representation of the food, it was set up more appealing to see. It seemed like the author if not reading anything about the person was trying to show that the food that the inmates on death row are receiving is food that are from the best place and looked as good as the pictures he took and tasted like that also. But on the website, “The Last Meal Project,” the use of the inmates picture and then putting the food on top of it seemed less about the food and more wanting to focus on the people on death row and showing what the food might actually look like.  

                I think another good way they could have presented this was instead of having the picture of the person in the background maybe have pictures of the food instead in the background and soft focus that so that you only see the inmates or something more blended with the background.

                Something I saw in both presentations, that I think contributed to the visual rhetoric, was the text that both authors used. They went for more of the type writer texted or a text that is boxy and the letters were about the same width, I think that in itself represents either prison or something along those lines. Also in “The Last Meal Project” the text is in red and not black like the other I think that also can be visual rhetoric because it can make you think of blood or death which helps get the point across.

                Both websites did show visual rhetoric throughout the presentation but personally one argument was more compelling for me. Which was “The Last Meal,” it is more compelling because of how they used the close up shot of the prisoner probably from when they were first booked at the police station and then just placed food on top of the picture like an afterthought but I think what looks like an afterthought is really something that was well planned and put on top of the picture in that way on purpose. Which is why to me it is more compelling than seeing staged food that looks great.