Blog 6

My critical question

·      What effects the decision making of young adults?

Sub questions/ sub topics

·      How can the habits you have today effect your life in the future?

·      How can decisions lead to habits?

·      How can being more responsible about partying lead to a better lifestyle?

What I want the purpose of this text to be

·      Taking responsibility for your own actions.

·      If you have your mind set on something, do whatever you can to achieve it.

·      Set a high goal and hit it

·      I want people to feel like if they set their mind something they can achieve it.

·      I also want them to think if they feel like they are being pressured by people around them to party and all the stuff that goes on with teenagers, that there are ways to avoid it.

·      I want to inform people on using their talents for good rather than just partying every night.

My audience

·      High school graduates in general

·      High school graduates that are going to play a sport in college

·      Parents that have been affected by their kids children

·      Mainly I want high school kids that have goals for themselves that are sports related or job related at a young age and teach them how to avoid the temptations of high school and college.

How I envision them

·      Kids that are a little reserved and shy, play sports or have high goals for them. Although reserved and shy, they’re confident in themselves and have high self-esteem.

·      Another way I see my audience looking like is the popular athletes in high school that party all the time.  They’re good looking kids, get all the girls, party all the time, and are extremely athletic and could possibly play a sport in college.

What genre

·      I kind of want to create a dart board with 10 different things behind it that relate to my critical question, such as different poems, art, pictures, music, etc.

·      Or I could do a video showing what goes on at parties and how it affects good athletes.

·      I’m pretty good at websites. I’m decent at poetry.

Modes that will be used

·      Poem

·      Text

·      Visual

·      Movement

·      Video

·      Picture

·      Music (Songs)

·      Images

·      Dialogue

·      These are all the modes I am considering, I haven’t necessarily narrowed it down yet

To my understanding, the conventions of this genre would be throwing the dart and hitting a number on the dart board. Depending on the number they hit, there will be a different mode to be chosen for each number hit. I am sort of confused on this whole convention point, but I think that is what you mean. For my model text, I could do a documentary video or a youtube video on teen drinking and partying.  Honestly, the last 2 bullet points for this blog I am super confused on and I am probably going to need your help more on them. I don’t really understand the convention and what model texts I am supposed to use.

So after class, I decided to kind of change my genre.  I still like my dartboard as an idea, and it is definitely still a possibility, but it would just be tough to go about and get it done. There are probably too many parts to it to do it. Now, I want to do a social media twitter page. This page would be set up to show problems occurring due to teen partying.  I could use pictures, text, dialogue, movement, such as vines or gifs, sound, etc.  I would try to promote being responsible and making responsible decisions when it comes to the tough decisions of being a teenager.  The conventions of my project are hashtags, which connect people with similar interests, the 140 character limit, which restricts you so you can only provide a brief message within the tweet, and tagging people (the @ character) is another convention, which allows interaction and conversation between 2 or more people. As a model text, I could use a twitter page used to promote a certain behavior, such as Nebraska high school hoops twitter page. This twitter page promotes basketball in the state of Nebraska. It provides results of tournaments and recruiting updates of certain players. Like them, I could promote the people that follow me about making responsible decisions. 

            My audience is more provided to teenagers that have a tough time with making the right decision. My audience would be around my age because that is who is involved in the social media process right now.  A little of my audience would be parents that have kids in the process of making decisions. These parents would have to have a social media page of course. There are plenty of parents that do have social media pages that could follow this page so I think it would work out and could be really good.