Saturday, November 7, 2015

Considering Visual Elements

Ken Haworth Photography "MK1 Escort Mexico" September 6, 2014 via Flickr
non-commerical reuse with attribution
In this blog post, I will be examining a number of questions from Writing for Public Lives about visual elements. The car above is a Ford Escort Mexico. TL;DR it's gorgeous.

What color choice best fits the rhetorical tone?
A simple black and white color scheme would be most appropriate for this project considering my genre. White text on a background image can be very cool but it is more difficult to create and not necessarily be necessary for my genre.

If your project contains large block of text, could they be broken up more effectively using test boxes, lines, headings, or images?
In writing, it is always beneficial to break-up long block of text with something more interesting. With that in mind, I will attempt to include pull quotes, perhaps lines, and appropriate images.

Do too many visual images make your text busy or disorganized?
Too many images would be inappropriate for my genre. I have a text based argument that I want to communicate so too many pictures would be distracting and unnecessary.

Does the image inform or emphasize my argument?
Images should be directly be connected to my argument or the issue at hand. Something that would be appropriate might be a diagram of selective catalytic reduction would be appropriate.

Scan your argument or outline. Do your eyes move easily from section to section in the order that you intended?
My outline is a bit of a mess right now but my final product should be pretty straightforward in this regard. If I can break-up the text block effectively, the argument will move in a sequential manner from top to bottom so it shouldn't be bad.

Do the visual and textual elements come together persuasively as a whole, or are there elements that seem disconnected or out of place?
My visual elements should come together fairly persuasively and cohesively as I do not intend to use something that does not work well to start out with.

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