Obama: For Decades to Come - OFA Colorado

Starting off with a massive group of Fort Collins college students, Obama's speech video includes him speaking to a large amount of hopeful students.  Their reactions are then shown, and many of them reveal a powerful impact they are recieving from Obama's speech.  Not only are they being impacted, but many of them are leaving an impact by promoting the election, registering to vote, and convincing others to vote.  Through the duration of all events held in the video, Obama's speech is playing, which is important to the montage of people 'making a difference' and explaining his statement of how young voters made a large percentage of votes in 2008, and can make an impact by doing it more in the future.  Less effective in the video, are the reactions, due to the reactions not being powerful enough to be highly convincing.  The overall mood of the video is positive, simply due to the color, editing, and music.  The editing of the video is simplistic but impactful, due to the montages of the students 'making a difference' coinciding with the speech, and the upbeat, motivational score.  The overall impact that such things make on a personal impression are positive impressions that leave me thinking of a young voter and how I, as a young voter, can make a difference.  A major, but subtle find was that when students are holding up signs at Obama's speech, they are all faced in a direction that says 'FORWARD.", a simple word that is impactful to people due to the idea of the country moving forward.  When viewers see the sign multiple times, the word will stay with them.  The argument is simply that the young people of today's America are the key for the future and decades to come, which is represented by him mentioning record numbers of young voters in 2008 - a form of logos.  There is much pathos in the campaign video, mainly due to the audio of the speech and montage of average, hopeful people making the difference that Obama mentions throughout the speech.  The compiled clips of young students is a form of ethos, mainly due to the reason that them doing what Obama mentioned is a credible way of saying that the difference is being made.