{"id":152,"date":"2012-03-01T07:15:28","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T07:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/hist359\/?p=152"},"modified":"2012-03-23T18:23:47","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T18:23:47","slug":"madison-dependable-for-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/hist359\/1808\/madison-dependable-for-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Madison: Dependable for the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Madison- Dependable for the Future\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tqsNgi_cArE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Aimee Dennett<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Madison Campaign Ad<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0This ad turned out to be much more difficult for me to create than I had originally anticipated for a few reasons.\u00a0 The first being that it seems Madison did not have any drawings or portraits made of him before 1808 other than one while he was serving in the Virginia legislature.\u00a0 The second being his strong association with Jefferson at the time of the election, who had just suffered significant domestic political opposition because of his two recent policies.\u00a0<!--more--> The embargo placed on Europe was quite obviously unpopular but, luckily for Madison\u2019s political career, repealed a few days before the end of Jefferson\u2019s presidency.\u00a0 Though the Louisiana Purchase in retrospect was a great success, many thought it was a hypocritical move by Jefferson&#8211;a president who claimed to be in favor of little-to-no strong national intervention had just purchased land through arguably unconstitutional means.\u00a0 If I were a campaign advisor in 1808, I would try to do my best to distinguish Madison from these unpopular policies.\u00a0 It is for this reason I placed the anti-Jefferson political cartoons in the video.<\/p>\n<p>The music playing is a portion from Yo Yo Ma\u2019s \u201cSong Without Words, Op. 109\u201d.\u00a0 I did my best to time the music to various cross-fading effects, and played the anti-Jefferson clips where the music reaches its climax.\u00a0 The first two quotes were taken from Williams Pierce\u2019s \u201cCharacter Sketches of Delegates to the Federal Convention,\u201d where he describes Madison in a very favorable light.\u00a0 The highlighted quote is taken from what I\u2019m assuming is a toast from the periodical \u201cClaypoole\u2019s Daily Adverstiser.\u201d\u00a0 Since I only had one usable image of Madison, I wanted to save it until the very end of the video, which is why I chose to emphasize Madison as a \u201cdefender of the rights\u201d and then cross-fade to a political cartoon of two men boxing at a Constitutional convention.\u00a0 I used this image for two reasons: one, Madison constructed the Bill of Rights making him not only the defender of rights but the founder. Two, Madison was largely responsible for convincing Virginia to ratify the Constitution.\u00a0 If it had not been for Virginia, New York most likely would have also avoided ratifying.\u00a0 This made Madison again a crucial defender of the People, which is why I thought the cartoon would be relevant.<\/p>\n<p>The next portion of the video was tricky\u2014I didn\u2019t want to sacrifice subtlety but still needed to disassociate Madison from Jefferson even though the first 20 seconds of my video was devoted to Madison.\u00a0 I decided to use a Bible passage, which may be ironic considering Madison\u2019s crucial role in defending religious freedoms, but nonetheless I thought it could speak to the religious population in America at the time.\u00a0 I also needed to make the pacing in this part of the video different from the rest, so I could again set Jefferson\u2019s content apart from Madison\u2019s.\u00a0 I chose images of Jefferson enacting his then unpopular policies, and used my words to imply Madison\u2019s innocence.\u00a0 I would have liked to use a quote from a newspaper to do this more subtly, but unfortunately most newspapers at the time still associated Madison very directly with Jefferson (for good reason).\u00a0 As the music comes to an end, a slow fade of a young Madison felt like a sufficient way to wrap up the video.\u00a0 All images were found using the Library of Congress online database.<\/p>\n<p>Young Madison:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/exhibits\/religion\/rel05.html<\/p>\n<p>Embargo pic:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/lcweb2.loc.gov\/service\/pnp\/cph\/3g00000\/3g06000\/3g06200\/3g06235v.jpg<\/p>\n<p>Louisiana purchase:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/lcweb2.loc.gov\/service\/pnp\/cph\/3g00000\/3g04000\/3g04500\/3g04544v.jpg<\/p>\n<p>William Pierce-Character Sketches of Delegates to the Federal Convention:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/history.wisc.edu\/csac\/founders\/madison.htm<\/p>\n<p>Boxing image:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/lcweb2.loc.gov\/service\/pnp\/cph\/3c30000\/3c32000\/3c32900\/3c32988v.jpg<\/p>\n<p>Jefferson pic:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/lcweb2.loc.gov\/service\/pnp\/ppmsca\/19100\/19161v.jpg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aimee Dennett Madison Campaign Ad \u00a0This ad turned out to be much more difficult for me to create than I had originally anticipated for a few reasons.\u00a0 The first being that it seems Madison did not have any drawings or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/hist359\/1808\/madison-dependable-for-the-future\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":459,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26628],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-26628"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/hist359\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/hist359\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/hist359\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/hist359\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/459"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/hist359\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/hist359\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/hist359\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/hist359\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/hist359\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/hist359\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}