Conversation Project

For the conversation project, Amanda and I are going to present an argument on smoking bans. We have located several websites with pros and cons of implementing such bans. Using these websites, we will compose an argument with a pro voice and a con voice. We have decided to represent the pro voice with black letters on a white background, and the con voice with white letters on a black background. This will function to show which “voice” is speaking at any given time, as well as show that this argument tends to be “black-or-white”, with few people falling into the “grey”. We also want to experiment with graphics. For example, having an image of a cigarette slowly burn down as the argument runs its course. From this cigarette image, we might try to experiment with having letters of words come out of the smoke from the burning end to arrange on the screen. In addition, we would like to incorporate a surgeon general’s warning into this piece. We have located a Marlboro font that we would like to use to stay within the theme of our argument. Knowing that trying to keep pace with the words might be difficult for the viewers, we will try not to incorporate too many words. We will try making fewer words work to get the point across, and try not to overwhelm the readers’ senses.