Allison,+Erin

//I'm very pleased with what you have outlined here. I think your ideas are smart and definitely doable, and I look forward to seeing this come to fruition. It's gonna be awesome! ~Ms. W//

Unit 3 Write-Up: 1-14-08

Purpose:

What do you hope to accomplish? We're considering an expansion of the audience to not just medical professionals but to parents and caregivers of those to whom musical therapy would be a great benefit. For example, many medical professionals might be skeptic or even vindictive of music therapy methods; however, we feel this information and these exercises are pertinent and important.

Why would anyone bother reading this? It gives an alternative to strictly medicinal healing. For those who don't want to depend on medication, there are alternative methods. After all, healing is not entirely physical; healing can be emotional, even, debatably, spiritual.

Are you trying to persuade? Yes.

Do you need to inform? Yes.

Audience:

What does your audience already know? I believe the ideas of music and therapy are both known well, but only separately. Also, the problems brought on by communicative disorders are known by many. It would be up to us to inform others about music therapy.

What does your audience value? The well-being of those affected by such disorders.

What are your audiences' needs? To know how sweet music therapy can be.

What biases might your audience have? A lot of people probably feel that medicine is the only way to control such internal functions. While there are medical advances which have brought forth many near-miraculous results, the mental well-being can be enriched through the powerful and unifying form of music.

Genre:

What genre will be most appropriate for your purpose (instructions or proposal)? A proposal would work well with this material.

What genre makes the most sense given your audience? Same.

Voice:

How do you want to represent yourself here? As cheerful? Hopeful? Angry? Concerned? Concerned and excited. We want others to open their minds, even just a little bit, to new ideas and concepts. We, our group, have come upon a great form of rejuvination, of sorts, which can bring forth community-building and enlightening results. We want to share that.

Do you want to sound authoritative or are you more likely to sound persuasive if your status as a student is plain?

I think our material should focus primarily on the positive aspects and potential opportunities that music therapy brings. People have a good idea of what both music and therapy are, and the idea of music therapy isn't necessarily too far off. However, we are of the opinion that music therapy as an idea brings forth negative prejudices because of its easily accessible nature. However, it is important to keep in mind that even the smallest interactions with music can bring forth great consequences.

How will your voice affect your ability to persuade? We're hoping our sheer enthusiasm for the material, along with a good deal of supporting evidence, will be convincing.

Formatting:

Does this genre call for traditional formatting, or are more diverse ways of presenting your information more effective? I think yes, because we want to come off as professional.

Will you use charts and graphs? Weve thought up ideas for charts and graphs to implement into the project.

Will you add photos? Are they necessary or just for appeal? Yup. We feel they are necessary and for appeal, not only as providing examples but also as casting the fun and exciting nature of music therapy into the limelight.

Problem:

Do you need to point out any sort of problem? We feel the problem is with the holier-than-thou feeling toward medicine and the "granola" nature of music therapy.

Will your audience be quick to agree that there is a problem? Or will they resist? A little bit of both. Some want to use alternatives while others operate strictly by the book.

How much of the problem do you need to convey? I feel that we can't too much of "just no medicine", as medicine does help a great deal.

Appeals:

What appeals will be most important here? Mostly emotional and logical, so pathos and logos.

Is an emphasis on logic important? About as much logic as would be emotion.

How will you establish your credibility? Charts, graphs, research, interviews.

What do you want your readers to feel? How will you accomplish this? Energized by our energy.

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__**Unit 1 Reflection**__

I began this unit completely ignorant of how much work goes into creating an effective image, but I think that the projects we’ve done have given me a lot of knowledge that I can use from now on when I’m creating an image or a document. What I think will be the most valuable thing I take away from this unit is making sure that I apply the CRAP principles whenever I am taking on a project. Making sure that the project is clean, neat, and not too busy is something that I need to consciously think about and work at. When I did my first paper (the rough draft) I really had no idea how to write a paper of “normal length” about the design principles of an image. I was completely in the dark on how to fully analyze and interpret design choices, but through the discussion in class and the feedback I was given on my first draft, I think I was able to get beyond the surface and look at more in depth aspects of the images and compare the two instead of just looking at one and then the other. I think that the progress I’ve made from the first draft to my final paper is big, but I still don’t know if I have enough knowledge of the design principles and these images to give a full analysis. When creating the PowerPoint, I chose to create my own slide, and I went with something simple and a mellow color for the background so that it wouldn’t clash with the images I was going to be analyzing. I chose to discuss the audience and the purpose first in the presentation because I feel in order to make the other design choices, you must first understand who it is going to be for and what you want that audience to get out of your project. Then I systematically went through each aspect of the images’ design so that we could see how each image was crafted as well as how the two compared. Talking about the effectiveness of the images needed to come at the end, because without looking at each aspect of the design you can’t draw an informed conclusion on the topic. I chose to follow the same basic layout for my paper, but when discussing the details I found that the different aspects were more intertwined than I had originally thought. In order to talk about contrast you must talk about color, and in order to talk about alignment and repetition you tend to talk about proximity and layout. It just reinforced to me that creating an image is not something to do lightly. You can start with a basic idea, but before you will get the final product, you must go through and consider each design element on its own and how it will combine with each other element. Ultimately, what I learned about images during this unit is something that I can apply to any project I create, and I think I can use it in every facet of my life. _

Comparison of Music Therapy visuals for 1/28: