A girl Like Me Vlog

Whom do you think is the audience for this vlog and, in terms of “visual rhetoric,” what aspects of the vlog are designed to appeal to this audience? What video/editing techniques are employed in this vlog post and how effective are they?

I had an opportunity to view the vlog "A Girl Like Me" which featured female teens talking about race and identity. I chose this video because I am extremely interested in both race and identity of minority children. I feel that the audience that this vlog targets could be educators, teens or individuals interested in race issues. I think that this video blog could be used effectively to initiate conversation about issues of race and self-confidence. The study conducted during the video where children were asked to look at dolls (white and black) and choose which was the nice doll, the beautiful doll, and even black children chose white dolls... this is SO sad. I recently watched a similar study that was done and highlighted on Anderson Cooper 360 and the results are so disheartening. Society is damaging the souls of our children by negatively portraying race so that even children can't/don't love their own color of skin. The video techniques that I found especially good about this video was that variety was used. It was not just focused on the individuals that were talking. Multiple people were used and images related to the topic were used along with voice over techniques for variety. I wish I would have/could have had time to try these techniques out when I made my own vlog but with practice perhaps I can incorporate variety, still and motion shots and voice over techniques in vlogs of my own in the future.