For the past week or so, we’ve gone over the fact that we’re
creating a website concentrating on social problems that face society. My
social problem/topic that I decided to tackle is Animal Rights. The site is supposed to inform communities of the injustices that animals go through and that there is a way for them to help. Be it through donation, volunteering, or adopting. The main focus is on bringing awareness and adoption is just a subtopic that is within the social problem that can be the solution.
The reason I chose this topic specifically is because I love animals. I want to be known as the “Crazy Cat Lady” that got married; breaking the stereotype and meeting the stereotype at the same time. Animals give us comfort and may take work, but they are family and many animals need homes where they can live in a stable healthy environment. they don't talk back to you and are that ear that sometime people need when no one is around. They don't judge. They're just friends.
The reason I chose this topic specifically is because I love animals. I want to be known as the “Crazy Cat Lady” that got married; breaking the stereotype and meeting the stereotype at the same time. Animals give us comfort and may take work, but they are family and many animals need homes where they can live in a stable healthy environment. they don't talk back to you and are that ear that sometime people need when no one is around. They don't judge. They're just friends.
I won’t post abused animals on the page because I want to
have some class in my website. It’s tasteless, effective, but I don’t want to
guilt trip the community to donate for animals based around graphic images. I
want them to see where their efforts will take them with happy images of
kittens and shelters that are being built. This way they know what their money
is going towards.
Example: Videos like these would be appropriate because it has a happy ending and gives the fuzzies.
And make you feel like this...
I like www.bestfriends.org how there are three very decisive choices to get involved. “Donate, Volunteer, and Adopt”. It’s decisive and clear about what the community can do to help.
But one thing that has become very popular is Infographs. This
is an age in which current and future generations will share information
through visual images. It is a universal language that people everywhere can
communicate with and becomes visually pleasing to look at. The viewer doesn’t
become over-saturated in massive amounts of text to the point where they won’t
want to read it. www.bestfriends.org “No
Kill Mission” information/about page show their history in an infographic way. Example: Geeks vs Nerds
Its informative, but visually pleasing to the eye -->
Awesome focus! Definitely keep the infographic idea in mind! It's hard to do a website as just a series of infographics (although the web is almost at the point where anyone browsing it is going to be able to view the image effectively), but they are definitely tools you could use pretty regularly in your creations.
ReplyDeleteAre you planning on continuing the ethos that you use in this blog on your site? You mention that you aren't going to try to pull too hard on anyone's heartstrings, and the regular use of light images, soft colors, and humor can go a long way in convincing your audience that (a) they are good people and (b) good people help animals however they can. Also, will you take one of the particular actions that bestfriends recommends (or maybe just links straight to their action page)? You could definitely focus on one aspect and include guidelines to something like animal foster care, where you could be a pseudo-cat-lady: housing and caring for cats as an extension of a local animal shelter until the animals are adopted (it's totally a real thing).