Write 1 paragraph that answers this question: What decisions do you need to make so that your visual rhetoric reinforces the ethos you’re trying to construct?

• Since I am young and my topic, youth mental illness, is such a difficult topic, I need to construct an ethos that screams maturity and comfort. If my audience does not trust my ethos for this topic in particular I can not succeed in my project. Color, background, word choice, I need to pay attention to all of it. I want to construct an ethos of maturity and trust

What choices do you need to make to appear professional to 21st-century audiences?

• I need to pay attention to my technology in particular. I also need to make sure my events are current due to the fact that a lot of people these days are very wary of the information that they receive.

For help with this activity, refer to pages 248 through 251 of Compose, Design, Advocate.

What decisions do you need to make about images, hue, saturation, and brightness to enhance your argument? How will execute these decisions in the project? Be concrete.

• I need to chose pictures that are informational but also sensitive to my audience. Since it is a darker topic I do not want it to be falsely hopeful but it does need to be optimistic. I think pictures with happy children and people gathered together will work best.

What role(s) will visual rhetoric play in your project? Create a design plan that details your plan for using images, colors, and typeface in your project.

• I want it to be a very a very personal website because it is a very personal topic. I however do not want it to be “flowery”. No crazy font or colors. Very straight to the point but with metaphorical rays of sunlight at the same time. My profile picture will be children, my background a backdrop of people.  I want everyone to feel invited but I don’t want people to forget who they are there for.