I believe it is important for our group to consider the level of decorum we should use. I can see this project being one where plain or low style is put into practice. I’m not quite sure how visuals will be used in our paper for this project. Our group has plenty of experience incorporating pictures into papers, so we would not have any problems with that. I’m not quite sure what role an abstract would play in our multi-modal project. I don’t feel like it would be appropriate. Designing our visual argument is essential to convince people of our message. It would be fun to create our own visual that is a compilation of images, but I think we may end up doing a video compilation. Either way, our creativity needs to be apparent in the visual we provide. Pathos and Logos will be especially important to our topic if we choose to make an argument on how children’s TV shows today are teaching them the wrong things. Disney channel and other networks will provide the logos, while the actual shows and what’s going on in them will provide the logos. A parody would be interesting to use for our project, especially since we would be advocating the negative affects of children’s television shows. We could somehow transform a Disney channel ad to include negative aspects of a particular television show. Creating a website will take a lot of effort, but that may be the mode we choose to use to share our video or visual representation. I would not want the navigational scheme to be anything too simple. I would like it to be something fun and atypical for the viewer. I definitely want my group to use a splash page for the website. I think that would really capture our audience’s attention if we had a relevant quote or picture that popped up right before people entered the site. However, we do need to keep in mind the usability when we are creating our site. I know I hate when there are too many things going on when I enter a website that its too difficult to gather information. I think a video montage would be perfect for our group, since we are planning on doing our project on children’s cartoons and television shows. As long as we keep our audience in mind, we should not have any problems presenting our argument.
