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- Due by 5PM on 11/5: Three potential genres for your remix
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1) The SEEK program should be more well known because in my experience very few students, specially high schoolers, know about the program. Therefore CUNY should create ads, provide informational material, and outreach to students.
2) Three potential genres would be a video, a photo essay, or a documentary. These would be a good fit because they can enable me to present my research in a creative and fun way.
3) I don’t have a specific genre that sticks out to me, I sorta wanna use all of them at once.
4) I have a few model texts such as the humans of New York Instagram page shown in class and probably Thoraya Maronesy’s youtube channel, which is mostly about strangers answering questions and doing things that everyone can relate to in some way.
The call to action (thesis) from my research paper is, ” Is it ethical to keep animals as pets?” One potential genre I thought of includes the use of visual and writing modes; drawing as a media. I believe drawing would be a good fit because it will give me an opportunity to be creative/expressive in a way that is familiar to me, and that I value. Also, having visual genres tend to give people more of a shock value. It would get them thinking about an issue or anything the person that created that genre is trying to portray. A lot of the time, when people just read or hear about an issue or anything else, it may not effect them the same way because they don’t truly see the consequences of an issue. For example, if you tell an individual about how farm animals are mistreated, many won’t care until they see the horrible visuals in video clips, documentaries or photos in that said topic. Another potential genre I’m considering is photo essay because it seems like a powerful yet simple genre remix choice. Taking photos seems like a simple task; I have some ideas on how I can take basic photos of things accessible to me, and elaborate my idea about the photo in powerful, thought invoking paragraphs; get people thinking about rather simple images in a way that may invoke some emotions; appealing to pathos. I also thought of doing the same thing, but instead of paragraphs, keeping the text rather short and turning it into an ad. I kind of see the photo essay and ad ideas almost as the same idea because they seem rather similar in my minds eye. The last potential genre I chose was to make a statue that combine both visual and written because it will include words. If I decide to go that route, I need to think further into what materials would be used, and what significance do they have. Out of all genres I suppose , the statue idea stands out the most because it would be something new I would try, and materials used during the project cold be rather interesting/unique. It is however a close tie with photo essay and ad idea because the amount of shock value and appeal to pathos makes that idea stand pretty strongly against the statue idea. There are no model texts I’ve chosen to help me create the remix. I may, however, come across something as I search for more information regarding my call to action paper.
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