1 Name: Abdulaziz Alfoudari Course: ENG 105 Instructor’s name: Professor Beth Due date: Oct-11-2016 USA for Africa - We are the World The visual text I am going to analyze is a famous song “We are the world” by United Support of Artist (USA) for Africa a charity supergroup. The video starts with the image of a revolving globe which then turned into a written text “USA-Africa”. The background also turned from dark to white and various signatures appears on the screen. The signatures give colorful look on white background. The first scene shows a guy singing on the mike and headphones on his ears. The equipment that appears in the first scene shows that the guy is singing in a studio. In next scene, he is singing along with another guy in a studio the background indicates towards the presence of musical group playing other instruments. The second guy continues where the first left. After singing few words two other guys appeared in next scene the other starts signing where the first one left. The equipment indicates they are also in the studio. As the scene changes the presence of a number of singers is visible in the background which means that all of them are present and singing in the same studio. The singers include female singers also. Each singer starts singing where the other left. Some singers are African American and some are white. The appearance of the king of the pop “Michael Jackson” makes the song worthwhile. The studio is full of singers and everyone is singing with great passion. It looks like everyone knows his turn to sing and when their turn comes they move towards the mike without getting any sign after completing their part they move aside so that the next singer come and sing his part. All the singers seem very cooperative. After showing each singer singing separately his part, all of them are shown singing together in the form of a group. Together they are singing more passionately with smiles on their faces. They seem like enjoying the song holding the hands of each other in a row. The background shows that banner with USA Africa written on it. After singing in the form of the group the again appear to sing individually. This is a video of a charity song sung in 1985 for the people of Africa. The song gives energy to the listener. The title of the song indicates towards humanity and unity. Each aspect of a song is heart touching from the lyrics to the passion of the singers; everything makes a listener soft hearted towards humanity. The verses of the song are so captivating. When the viewer watches this video he immediately thinks about the idea behind the video. The video compels a viewer to think about the story behind the song. The song contains no graphic language, no adult content. The simplicity is the beauty of the song which makes prominent the passion of the singers and the message of the song. The simplicity also revives the element of humanity in the listener. It makes the listener listen to his inner vo ...

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Name: Abdulaziz Alfoudari
Course: ENG 105
Instructor’s name: Professor Beth
Due date: Oct-11-2016
USA for Africa - We are the World
The visual text I am going to analyze is a famous song “We are
the world” by United Support of Artist (USA) for Africa a
charity supergroup. The video starts with the image of a
revolving globe which then turned into a written text “USA-
Africa”. The background also turned from dark to white and
various signatures appears on the screen. The signatures give
colorful look on white background. The first scene shows a guy
singing on the mike and headphones on his ears. The equipment
that appears in the first scene shows that the guy is singing in a
studio. In next scene, he is singing along with another guy in a
studio the background indicates towards the presence of musical
group playing other instruments.
The second guy continues where the first left. After singing few
words two other guys appeared in next scene the other starts
signing where the first one left. The equipment indicates they
are also in the studio. As the scene changes the presence of a
number of singers is visible in the background which means that
all of them are present and singing in the same studio. The
singers include female singers also. Each singer starts singing
where the other left. Some singers are African American and
some are white. The appearance of the king of the pop “Michael
Jackson” makes the song worthwhile.
The studio is full of singers and everyone is singing with great
passion. It looks like everyone knows his turn to sing and when
their turn comes they move towards the mike without getting

2. any sign after completing their part they move aside so that the
next singer come and sing his part. All the singers seem very
cooperative. After showing each singer singing separately his
part, all of them are shown singing together in the form of a
group. Together they are singing more passionately with smiles
on their faces. They seem like enjoying the song holding the
hands of each other in a row. The background shows that banner
with USA Africa written on it. After singing in the form of the
group the again appear to sing individually.
This is a video of a charity song sung in 1985 for the people of
Africa. The song gives energy to the listener. The title of the
song indicates towards humanity and unity. Each aspect of a
song is heart touching from the lyrics to the passion of the
singers; everything makes a listener soft hearted towards
humanity. The verses of the song are so captivating. When the
viewer watches this video he immediately thinks about the idea
behind the video. The video compels a viewer to think about the
story behind the song. The song contains no graphic language,
no adult content. The simplicity is the beauty of the song which
makes prominent the passion of the singers and the message of
the song. The simplicity also revives the element of humanity in
the listener. It makes the listener listen to his inner voice. It
makes the viewer listen to his heart. The song indicates towards
helping the people of the world who are less fortune. It is about
the people who are dying for whom we must join our hands, and
be united to help them. Nothing is more important than love
which is all we need, so we must spread it. We are the one who
can bring the change in this world. We are the world ourselves.
Those who are less fortune like the people of Africa should be
helped so that they know that we care for them. We are blessed
by God so we must give others. Only unity can bring change in
the society. This indeed brings up the passion of all the singers.
The song makes us think about all the people of the world, who
are suffering from natural disasters, droughts, and wars.

3. The song conveys a message about the people who are suffering
and we should think about them. We should help them. The
song makes us emotional when we listen to it carefully.
Each world is valuable. The singers from different musical
backgrounds are appealing. This indicates towards the unity that
all of us are one no matter from which background we belong
when it comes to making a change we are all one. We are all
one in difficult situations. Singers are singing randomly without
any arrangement with respect to casting wise, color wise or
gender wise, this is another very important aspect of a video. It
indicates towards the message of equality, which indeed makes
the song praiseworthy. The way they are holding the hand while
singing in a group is another element of unity. Instead of
thinking about just ourselves we must think about others by
putting ourselves in their place. The repetition of the verses by
different singers put emphasis on the message of humanity.