The audience that I have aimed my website to appeal to is male apple farmers that are at least 65 years’ old who are conservative and love to be around kids. This is modeled after my Grandpa, Gene. My grandpa is a farmer, although he doesn’t just have apples. My grandpa values the idea of respect as well as family and teaching kids right from wrong. He also likes to drink beer and eat ice-cream.
In class, I had the luck of drawing a rhetorical situation that asked me to create a website in order to convince farmers to go to the opera. At first, I didn’t really know what I was going to do to be able to effectively get farmers to go to the opera. I began to think about my grandpa Gene. My grandpa is an apple farmer who is about 66 years old. So now that I had an audience in mind, I had to go a little deeper with it, I had to think about what he would like to see. I came up with the idea that I would make this opera show based on a child and an apple farm since my grandpa loves both apples and kids. I also know from past experience that by using visuals of kids you are able to cause a change easier, due to the fact that people are more sensitive and caring towards children. So now that I had my idea, I needed to put it into action.
I began to look up websites that were created to advertise opera shows, opera singers, all things opera. I found that many of them are the same in the sense of the details they provide the viewer. The basic features I found was an “about” page, company logo, “contact us” page, “buy tickets” button, “news” page, brief introduction/description of the show, and finally, there is almost always a picture of the creator/star of the show on the site. So now I knew what information I needed to make available on my own webpage, and now the design process began. Modelling my website after another, I switched out the main picture of two actors to a picture of an apple tree with a kid on the side, picking an apple. After I sized up the picture, I needed to change the pre-exiting color scheme. I did so, making the left and right sides a dark red color (I color picked this color using the dropper tool on a dark part of an apple). Then, I needed to change the color of the area below the picture so that all the colors went together, I made it a dark green (used the dropper tool on a leaf). After I was done with the picture and color scheme, I continued the mock-up and placed the text where I wanted that item to be. For example, I thought that the logo of the company putting on this opera show should be displayed on the bottom left of the screen, under information like Contact Us, About, Buy Tickets, etc. After that, I added a few more details like the photograph of the creator, introduction to the show, and description of the creator.
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