Authors: Asst. Lect. Saifuldin Sa’ad Khudair
Abstract: This paper investigates how the vertical reframing can alter the rhetorical and visual meaning in addition to the message of two selected video excerpts from the famous film Atonement (2007). The study analyzes the two excerpts by adopting the model of visual rhetoric by Sonja K. Foss to denote how the change of the regular cinematic aspect ratio of the film into the new Tiktok vertical screen aspect ratio can in turn, reshapes the rhetorical ambience of the film. This paper argues that the aspect ratio can ultimately function as a rhetorical strategy adhering to some principles of visual rhetoric which can be used as a tool to influence the viewer’s interpretation of a given excerpt from the film.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20408248
