Intro Essay 1: Content, Form, or Ethics (Visual Literacy)

Media artists who create images in videos, film, or television consider both aesthetics and ethics in their work. What I think is most important in a work of art is form, content, truthfulness, and ethical qualities; however, I feel that content can represent ethical qualities, form, and truthfulness if that is the artists objective. Truthfulness is the critical concept because many people are strongly influenced by media. While there are also many people that believe media has a negative effect on the population, I believe these negatives could be prevented.
The media arts are used for many things such as; advertising, news, sports, educational purposes,and much more. The most valuable thing a media artist can do is to help with causes like cancer, childhood diseases, peace, etc. These artist not only have a talent for drawing a viewer’s attention, they also have the power to use it for a good cause.
Programs like the Cure Cancer Starter make the numbers for funding a disease like cancer grow much higher then they would without media art. This program gives people the boost that they need to make a difference in cancer treatment. This website includes a list of cancer centers, inspirational media, a glossary of cancer terms, and more.
Websites like the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops feel that children are in danger, not only on the internet, but on television and in video games. While three-fourths of usccb.org responders feel that it is up to the media artist to prevent harm to their children, I say that parents should be more in-tuned to the use of parental guidance controls; more than half of these responders have this knowledge.

http://www.curecancerstarter.org/
http://old.usccb.org/comm/archives/2010/10-067.shtml