Purpose: I want people to look at videogames being played
competitively in similar regards to sports being played professionally.
Strategies: in terms of rhetorical strategy, I plan to try
to appeal ethos and logos and just avoid pathos altogether. In this argument, I
am just trying to show the audience similarities between two different things
and I have no clue how appealing to their emotion would help my argument at all
so I’m just going to focus on what makes sense to me. I just want to use the photos
as my main appeal to credibility by (hopefully) showing the audience that I
understand sports and videogames well enough to compose pictures that will help
me get my point across. The captions will serve as an appeal to logic and will
serve as explaining the basis of what the picture is trying to portray and give
the audience some perspective of what they are looking at.
Medium: for the images, I tried to
pick something that the two had in common and then showcase what the
commonality looks like in regards to both sports and videogames. The idea is to
show the audience something they are familiar with and then showing them
something they probably don’t know much about and hopefully make a connection
between the pictures
Arrangement: The way I want to arrange my photo
essay is bring up a point that is common between sports and videogames and then
display how they relate to the common point as well as each other.
Communication: I will try to produce the
communication with a combination of the pictures as well as the captions that
accompany.
Effectiveness: The way to test how effective this photo essay will be is to just present it to the class and listen to their feedback and make any adjustments necessary.
Narrative: When I first set out to do this project, I thought it would
be really easy to just get a couple pictures of people playing sports and
people playing videogames and show how alike the two are. As I worked on the
project, I realized that getting the message across to people would be more
difficult than I originally thought. As I talked to people about my project, I
had to explain to them what esports was (I thought it was an easy term to grasp
considering people use the word email all the time) and people honestly thought
it was weird to watch other people play videogames as a way to pass time. I
realize now that I was only considering others who held the same opinion of me
and agreed that esports is making a lot of progress, and even though it is, I
learned it still has a long way to go. So I made this photo essay to try to
compare apples and oranges and show people how similar videogames and sports
can really be.
Sports Vs Esports Or click here to download
Effectiveness: The way to test how effective this photo essay will be is to just present it to the class and listen to their feedback and make any adjustments necessary.
Sports Vs Esports Or click here to download
In the end: my design plan was loosely defined before i started working on the photo essay and as i worked on it it changed into trying to show people how videogames and sports can be thought of as the same. I began this project with pretty low expectations of what I would be able to accomplish and I think that I exceeded those standards that I set for myself