Trying to find a remix in the physical therapy field wasn't difficult at all. I figured the best way to see a remix about physical therapy was visually through a video and I was right. I found a video that I thought remixed information and skills of physical therapist perfectly.
This video was made by the American Physical Therapy Association and it shows all different types of physical therapists in several different settings and how they are all different but so similar at the same time.
RAIDS is a technique that can be used to review a piece of work. In my writing class, we apply RAIDS to a lot of different things that we do. We were asked to do to a RAIDS critique of the remix that we found for our field.
RAIDS critique of the remix video:
Revision=The video revises what physical therapy is today and how far it has advanced because of different technology and techniques that have become available to help patients throughout the rehab process.
Arrangement= The video puts into relationship the roles of a physical therapist and the roles of the patients that are receiving physical therapy. This video is showing how it takes an equal amount of work and will from both side to see improvement from the beginning when a patient first arrives to the time they leave their last session.
Invention= The video portrays the ideas that physical therapy can be for anyone. Anyone can be the people on the other side of the video. Anyone can make a difference in peoples lives, but they just have to want to do it and they have to be passionate about it.
Delivery=The material is delivered in the video format. The video is about 10 minutes long. It isn't terribly long and for someone interested in physical therapy it can keep your attention.
Style= The style isn't very formal. It's very visual and the vocab used by the physical therapists isn't too complex or specific to the field. It's general for anyone to understand what they're talking about. The video has backround music to make it more interesting than just watching people talk.
The audience of this video can be broken up into two different groups. The target audience was anyone that might be interested in physical therapy as an occupation someday. The general audience was anyone on YouTube. YouTube is the main source that people go to find videos and almost anything can be found so anyone that is just looking through YouTube could find this video.
The purpose of the remix was get information out there to people about what physical therapy is, what physical therapists do from day to day, and the different kinds of physical therapy available. The American Physical Therapy Association wanted to make people aware of the impact that physical therapists have on patients lives.
The rhetoric in the video was mostly persuasive and I think that it was succsessful. I know that I'm interested in physical therapy so I didn't need to be persuaded too much, but for people watching that video that maybe aren't necessarily interested in physical therapy it does a good job in showing the positive things about the physical therapy field and why anyone should/could be a physical therapist. Real people, real patients, and real problems are shown in the video so other people can relate to them or just relate in general.
CITATIONS
APTA. "Physical Therapist Careers Video from APTA." Online video clip. YouTube. YouTube, 12 Sep 2010. Web. 26 Mar 2014.
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