Project Assessment Essay
The process of translating linguistics claims into visual claims was a bit challenging. Overall, we were able to follow through with what we said we wanted to implement for the visual. We attempted to use the things that we said we would do and apply them to our visual. We had said that we wanted to use medium and arrangement to capture our audience. In our visual, we were sure to make the benefits of drinking red wine easy to read and interesting. We had trouble coming up with the best way to translate from linguistics to visualizations, but we decided to do a poster. With a poster we felt as if we would be able to fit the facts along with the time and place for further interest in our advocacy design. Our point in our original plan was to be sure that the audience understood that though this was a somewhat laid back topic but had serious undertones. Through the use of a poster we feel as if we were able to convey the seriousness of this topic, but make it fun at the same time. Overall, we believe that our linguistic claims came to life through our visual.
The context of our advocacy project changed a bit since our original design plan. We had originally said our target audience was ranged from ages young to old adult, but after further investigation we realized that some consider young adults to be fifteen years old. We had to adjust our audience age to college student (19) to adult to really get our point across best. We our reaching out to the older crowd by providing health benefits and such which may be a very important point for them to keep in mind about red wine. For the college student age we invite them to a wine tasting (for those of drinking age) and “Wine Down Wednesday” meetings for college students who want to learn more about the advocacy of red wine. The actual design, arrangement, and medium allow for us to capture both audiences. All of the points we wanted to get across to the audience of all ages are all combined onto one visual. We were sure not to make it too wordy though, and provided an organized visual for the audience. The audience will be persuaded through our use of color, font, and design. Once they look into the advocacy further and will read closer into our factual points, and may want to further investigate the benefits of red wine.
When implemented our design plan, we will try a few different strategies to see what works the best. At first, we were going to create one big poster to present to the class but then we realized that it would be easier to create a flier (smaller poster) that we will be able to post around campus and surrounding areas. We discussed creating a pamphlet that could be handed out to local doctor offices but we decided that the best way to reach our audience and catch their attention would be to create a flier. Pamphlets would be helpful if we wanted to include more facts and other information about the benefits of wine rather than announcing an event. We chose to use colors the represent the colors of wine, such as burgundy, brown, and light green. We chose to use a simple font that was easy to read and clearer to the audience.
In our visual we try to touch a little bit on ethos, pathos, and logos. However, our strongest appeal is logos. In our visual there are facts being poured into a glass, along with the wine. These facts are short and simple. They stand out and are easy for our readers to understand. Our ethos is shown through the event posted, where our readers can come to enjoy a wine tasting and talk more about the facts. At “Wine Down Wednesdays” there will be guest speakers such as; winery experts and certified doctors to answer any more questions the readers might have. Finally, pathos or the emotions of this visual we want to convey is that although this topic should be relaxing and laid back we still want them to learn and be excited about the benefits that come along with drinking wine in moderation.
The most difficult part of our visual argument was including all of the information that we wanted without making it look too wordy. We wanted to include all of the important facts about how wine can benefit someone’s health and prevent cardiovascular disease. We wanted to create a unique, catchy, but informative poster that we could post around Rowan University and surrounding areas. We first drew a rough draft of what exactly we wanted to create, including simple facts, times, and visuals. Once we began to turn this rough draft into an actual poster on the computer, we ran into some trouble. We couldn’t get the images to look exactly as we wanted and realized that with all the facts, it looked a little too busy and had too many words for someone to quickly read. After working with some different programs, we were able to create our visual to look exactly how we wanted it to look. The most effect aspect of our project is offering free wine tastings at “Wine Down Wednesdays.” This will catch people’s attention, especially college students and make them more willing to come to the meetings, where information about the benefits of wine will be further explained.
The project management of this project was a situation that had to be well organized to be successful. While we collaborated for each thing we were each put in charge of a specific aspect of the project, almost as if we were each an overseer of the areas. Each person was in charge of an area to make sure that it was completed and organized. We separated the overseers as follows: Bryanna (Design Plan), Devin (Annotated Bibliography), Angela (Visual). We all talked about the Design Plan and made it come together, each found and discussed sources that we thought were credible and valid, and also planned and discussed the visual. If we were to do this project again maybe we would consider the time period and other arrangements people had before the due date. We had one member go on vacation, which did not hinder our collaboration, but made us think of different ways to collaborate. For instance, we had to use online communication to discuss different aspects of the project but perhaps we would plan accordingly so we would not have to do that next time. Overall, we all thought that we collaborated work and actually enjoyed working in groups for on this because we were able to bounce ideas off of one another and see other viewpoints, which was extremely valuable for this specific topic.
The context of our advocacy project changed a bit since our original design plan. We had originally said our target audience was ranged from ages young to old adult, but after further investigation we realized that some consider young adults to be fifteen years old. We had to adjust our audience age to college student (19) to adult to really get our point across best. We our reaching out to the older crowd by providing health benefits and such which may be a very important point for them to keep in mind about red wine. For the college student age we invite them to a wine tasting (for those of drinking age) and “Wine Down Wednesday” meetings for college students who want to learn more about the advocacy of red wine. The actual design, arrangement, and medium allow for us to capture both audiences. All of the points we wanted to get across to the audience of all ages are all combined onto one visual. We were sure not to make it too wordy though, and provided an organized visual for the audience. The audience will be persuaded through our use of color, font, and design. Once they look into the advocacy further and will read closer into our factual points, and may want to further investigate the benefits of red wine.
When implemented our design plan, we will try a few different strategies to see what works the best. At first, we were going to create one big poster to present to the class but then we realized that it would be easier to create a flier (smaller poster) that we will be able to post around campus and surrounding areas. We discussed creating a pamphlet that could be handed out to local doctor offices but we decided that the best way to reach our audience and catch their attention would be to create a flier. Pamphlets would be helpful if we wanted to include more facts and other information about the benefits of wine rather than announcing an event. We chose to use colors the represent the colors of wine, such as burgundy, brown, and light green. We chose to use a simple font that was easy to read and clearer to the audience.
In our visual we try to touch a little bit on ethos, pathos, and logos. However, our strongest appeal is logos. In our visual there are facts being poured into a glass, along with the wine. These facts are short and simple. They stand out and are easy for our readers to understand. Our ethos is shown through the event posted, where our readers can come to enjoy a wine tasting and talk more about the facts. At “Wine Down Wednesdays” there will be guest speakers such as; winery experts and certified doctors to answer any more questions the readers might have. Finally, pathos or the emotions of this visual we want to convey is that although this topic should be relaxing and laid back we still want them to learn and be excited about the benefits that come along with drinking wine in moderation.
The most difficult part of our visual argument was including all of the information that we wanted without making it look too wordy. We wanted to include all of the important facts about how wine can benefit someone’s health and prevent cardiovascular disease. We wanted to create a unique, catchy, but informative poster that we could post around Rowan University and surrounding areas. We first drew a rough draft of what exactly we wanted to create, including simple facts, times, and visuals. Once we began to turn this rough draft into an actual poster on the computer, we ran into some trouble. We couldn’t get the images to look exactly as we wanted and realized that with all the facts, it looked a little too busy and had too many words for someone to quickly read. After working with some different programs, we were able to create our visual to look exactly how we wanted it to look. The most effect aspect of our project is offering free wine tastings at “Wine Down Wednesdays.” This will catch people’s attention, especially college students and make them more willing to come to the meetings, where information about the benefits of wine will be further explained.
The project management of this project was a situation that had to be well organized to be successful. While we collaborated for each thing we were each put in charge of a specific aspect of the project, almost as if we were each an overseer of the areas. Each person was in charge of an area to make sure that it was completed and organized. We separated the overseers as follows: Bryanna (Design Plan), Devin (Annotated Bibliography), Angela (Visual). We all talked about the Design Plan and made it come together, each found and discussed sources that we thought were credible and valid, and also planned and discussed the visual. If we were to do this project again maybe we would consider the time period and other arrangements people had before the due date. We had one member go on vacation, which did not hinder our collaboration, but made us think of different ways to collaborate. For instance, we had to use online communication to discuss different aspects of the project but perhaps we would plan accordingly so we would not have to do that next time. Overall, we all thought that we collaborated work and actually enjoyed working in groups for on this because we were able to bounce ideas off of one another and see other viewpoints, which was extremely valuable for this specific topic.