Around this time last year, April 2021, my family had been affected by COVID19, my parents and my three sisters had tested positive for the virus the same week. I was out of the country and was not exposed to the virus when they were together. So, this worldwide pandemic is something that up brings most of my curiosities involving families and politics, and much more. It has been extremely stressful for families with significant worries about the health of family members, financial instability, social isolation, and increased caregiving burdens associated with having children at home. The purpose of me making this video for an older audience was to reassure parents and families that they’re not alone in how they’re feeling regarding the education of their children, and how important it is to take care of each other during this pandemic not only physically but emotionally and mentally. Also, students in college could gain a lot from this video and understand what their parents are going through. Young adults may also struggle to adapt to new social routines, from choosing to skip in-person gatherings, to consistently wearing masks in public. It is also important to support young adults in taking personal responsibility to protect themselves and their loved ones.

The appeals that I have decided to use would include the three categories of persuasive advertising techniques. Which would be ethos, pathos, and logos. Ethos appeals to the speaker’s status or authority, making the audience more likely to trust them. In this video, my goal is for the audience to trust the information that is being portrayed because all the information is from statistics of families and from research articles.  Pathos appeals to the emotions, I tried to really grab the attention of the audience by putting the example of my family, so they could see how families struggle mentally and physically and on top of that, they have to take care of each other while the children are students as well, making it a responsibility of the parents to teach them or the responsibility of the eldest sibling responsible of their education.

The genre I chose for my unit three would be from contemporary journalism,  which is an interview.