rhetoric juxtaposition pastiche parody

looking into ways one would use techniques such as parody to be persuasive, the visual language of putting text with an image and making a completely different message.

these are examples of parody above ^

these are examples of juxtaposition ^

an example of pastiche ^

New Zealand non voters and voters research

looking at my research into new zealand votes I found some shocking and sad stats, for example the pie chart above is of the 20ll  new zealand general election, the gray area is all the people that didn't vote ! if they had it would have an entirely different make up of the seats in parliament, this graphic also goes hand in hand with popular belief of non voters that their "vote wont make a difference" which in fact non votes votes could make the bigest difference. the other main reasons kiwis didn't vote in 2008 and 2011 are 

1) I have not voted before why start now ? 

2) i'm not interested in politics 

3) i dont trust politics.

the bigest group of non voters are the youth 18- 34, which horrible news since they are ones who future is being shaped in the coming years, they need to pick someone who takes there views and livelihoods into count. all infomation was sourced from the new zealand gov severay 

and the free infomation of the electoral commission www.elections.org.nz/research-statistics

      

Visual styles

looking into layout, font and VDPS to give me inspiration for my thumbnails, I know i want to

included photography and digital manipulation some how because its my strong point and I am learning new skills in my elective paper of photo manipulation   

Mind map and research, Picking pro voting as topic

In class we where given a topic and side to debate on, In my group we debated pro for big companies vs small stores which is probably one of the hardest augments, it was interesting talking about a topic I hadn't really thought about, I was chosen to be a speaker in my group and we did a good job of covering all the bases with Ihi Wehi. Listening to the other group's in my class debate I was able to wright down ideas for poster research i hadn't thought about yet.
 I had a think and discussion with my class mates and I have decided to pick pro voting for my topic of interest, its something I feel strongly about since my woman of this country thought so hard for the right to vote 

From this I made a mind map about New zealand and the important topics to link important areas with my research.  

 Photo of group topic debate

My mind map

Week one Rhetoric and Persuasion

Week on we where shown examples of Rhetoric persuasion in posters as we read over the brief and thought about about which topic we wanted to explore with our design.
 I like the idea of pro social media since it is where I run my photography business and keep in contact with over seas family. and also pro voting since it is something I feel very strongly about !