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Rhetorical Analysis Draft 1 - Michael Duquesnel
Rhetorical Analysis Draft 1 - Michael Duquesnel
Michael Duquesnel
Professor Lindsey
College Writing
19 September 2019
Rhetorical Analysis
For this rhetorical analysis, I will be analyzing a script that I wrote for a film project for
my Modern Thought and Literature class back in the Spring of 2018. The script was titled “Can
You Survive a Horror Movie?” and was a horror-comedy about a group of friends who love to
watch horror movies. One of the guys claims that surviving a horror movie would be pretty
simple so the rest of the group puts him to the test to see if surviving a horror movie is really as
easy as it sounds. The script was around fifteen pages long and was written in a script format,
Rhetor
The rhetor for this situation is me. I was tasked with creating a movie for our final
project. This project would represent what I had learned in the class and my ability to put that
into practice.
Audience
The audience for this project was just the cast and crew who helped in making this script
become reality. The goal of writing this script was to communicate clearly to the actors on how
their characters should be acting and how the scenes should flow. Without any descriptions and
details, the finished film would have turned out clunky and fallen flat as the actors would not
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have known what to do. There were also notes about camera angles and shots for the cameraman
so they would understand what the vision of the film looked like.
(I plan on also discussing the teacher that would eventually grade my project)
Constraints
Like all school projects, this one had a specific date in which it was due. With that date in
mind, the script had to be written even before that as filming could not start until the script was
written in full. This led to me as the rhetor, not having enough time to fully flesh out all aspects
of the story that I would have wished to. Revisions to the script were to be kept to a minimum as
there was not much time for them. This would, in the end, have a lasting impact on how the
Exigence
(I plan on talking about the reasons for communication between myself and the actors and crew
of this movie and why this communication is necessary to create a high quality finished project)