The Beauty of Earth
Purpose: My motivation for this photo essay is to highlight
the unreal magnificence of our planet that a lot of people (myself included
sometimes) take for granted. There are things about our planet that most people
consider beautiful like a colorful sunset or a full moon, but there are many
things that people do not notice. I want to find as many beautiful objects of
our planet and put them on display. In the end my motivation is also to show
that there is so much beauty with preserving and most people don’t even
consider it. I hope that after seeing my photo essay people realize that there
is so much amazing stuff around us all the time and you don’t even have to pay
anything to enjoy the majority of it. There are a lot of things that
contributed to me picking this as my topic, I’ve always had a love of nature
and animals but I’ve never taken it much past appreciation. My freshman common
reader was garbage land and ever since then I’ve always had something gnawing
at me to try my hardest to make a difference and I think it is finally about
time I start. The best possible outcome of people seeing my essay would be that
they take more time to enjoy the little things that the planet has to offer us:
the way a breeze makes the tree blow or how impossibly still water can be if
there is not current or disruption. In all honesty I don’t really foresee a
“worst possible outcome.” I suppose the absolute worst thing would be that
other people find the subject matter boring, which would almost defeat the
purpose of this being done in the first place because I want to educate people.
I suppose that along with people thinking that it is boring, I could not catch
people’s interest which is the opposite of what I want. I guess that this could
change the situation by maybe changing people’s outlook on our environment,
maybe people would take more steps to reduce their flow of garbage to landfills
or maybe reduce their carbon footprint just a little bit.
Audience: On a small scale my audience is my peers in class,
who will have to help edit and will see my topic from start to finish. On a
larger scale my audience would be anyone who uses the internet and reads blogs
and happens upon my blog. So as far as planning my photo essay according to who
my audience is I think that I need to make sure that I’m most concerned about piquing
the interest of people in my age group, because most of us disregard nature and
the beauty of earth and learning more about what makes it worth preserving. Along
with people in my age group I should target high school aged students because
they can also help work towards a change in attitude that could eventually lead
to more of a concrete change in the way things are.
Context: Our class meets later in the afternoon, so it is
after everyone has had lunch and maybe a few classes and they are starting to
get burned out for the day. In order to keep people engaged and interested in
my photo essay I will have to work to make sure that I am going as deep into my
photo essay subject as possible. As for it being posted on my blog that makes
things a little more interesting because the time of day that anyone chooses to
view it wholly depends on that persons schedule and even what time zone they
are in. I would think that someone looking at my photo essay online would find
it interesting to them no matter what the time of day because it was something
they chose to click on, but the same things that applied to my classmates would
apply to anyone on the internet: making sure that my topic is interesting and
thoughtful enough to keep people interested and perhaps even wanting to know
more about what I have to say further down the line.
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