Design Plan
The audience for my photo essay will include my classmates
and my professor. The context will be the day that the final version is due. We
will all pull up our final product on our laptops, then go around and view each
other’s projects. Our photo essays must be 8 to 10 pages long and relate to our
research topics. It will include original photographs with captions that should
be easily understandable. I think I am going to try and raise questions to make
the audience form an opinion on either why college athletes should or should
not be paid a salary. I still need to take more photographs that will better
show this visually. Colleges already pay for athletes’ tuition and supply them
with gear and apparel, so why should they be paid? However, the athletes bring
in a whole lot of money for schools. I need to take some photos that will ask
these questions. This topic has been getting more and more controversial
recently. I want my audience to think about where they stand on this conflict.
Colleges already spend a lot of money on athletes. Some athletes get their
tuition fully paid by the school, while getting free apparel and gear. So why
should schools go even further and pay them like it’s a job? I created a
PowerPoint presentation for this photo essay. The photo essay contains
photographs and text. I am a little concerned about getting quality photographs
to display my argument. Also, I need to think about how I am going to arrange
the photos to make a good argument. I think I will have two or three photos
arguing that they should be paid and then two or three photos arguing why they
should not be paid. So, the main question: should college athletes be paid?
Closing Comments
I think overall I accomplished what I set out to do. Some of
my photographs could have been better, but I think with the limited resources I
had available, they do a decent job. I think I raised the questions that I was
planning to raise in my design plan. When thinking about whether or not college
athletes should be paid a salary, I think this photo essay does a good job
showing both sides of the argument.
