Group members

1. Omime Davis
2. Viktor Chen
3. Theola Murray
4. Jerrod Scarber
5. Darreall Robertson

Almost final

PART 3:  AUDIENCE ANALYSIS AND DELIVERY

The argument on legalizing prostitution will be geared toward the general public. When we speak of the general public we are speaking in terms of all people. Children, teenagers, parents, business owner, married people, the media and the government are our key audience members when speaking on such profession. Government plays a major role in our audience due to the fact that it is an illegal profession in the state of Michigan. Legalizing prostitution will affect other states and other countries as well. It will also affect business and the working class people in many ways. By legalizing prostitution it will affect people day to day life and others lifestyle. This profession is a big business opportunity for most business professional.

Posting an xtranormal video of the legalization of prostitution will open the eyes of the general public to see that prostitution could benefit the economic crisis that the state of Michigan is facing today. This video will also benefit local business by bring in more business to the state of Michigan posting an YouTube video of our evaluation  and proposal of legalizing prostitution in Michigan will impact all communities in Michigan. The topic itself will negatively be drawn down by the people. However, after hearing our proposal about legalization of prostitution, people are bond to change their minds and their total outlook of this profession. The general public will be greatly turned out due to the outcome of how prostitution could positively have an impact on Michigan and other states.

PART4:  DESIGN

Now that we have settled into our final project, we have begun searching and checking out Xtranormal.com. We were able to discover many different backgrounds and character that fit our proposal. We were first undecided on which one of the two backgrounds to chose. The first background setting was located in a bar, the other was a bedroom. The bar setting was a good opportunity to show the audience that this could be a good establishment to pick up costumers for sexual pleasures. We resulted in using the bedroom. The bedroom is a more discrete place to handle all business transaction. It is also primarily where sexual activities are took place.

While looking through the website, we searched for specific characters that would make a good connection with the background that we selected. We wanted to use male and female characters. The first character that we discovered was our female character. We looked for a woman who was dressed provocative and could be displayed as our definition of a prostitute. A half naked woman was perfect.  Our male character that’s used in our short movie will give you the impression that he is an undercover police, who totally disagrees with legalizing prostitution. We are pleased with the characters that we have chosen, although if the website had a police dressed in uniform, could have been used as an advantage of using law enforcement.

Our specified audience is the General Public. We are more focus on people that are looking for job opportunities, the government and teens in order for the legalization of prostitution.

PART 5:

Building the theory of online rhetoric through xtranormal software was a creative challenge.  Xtranormal.com has the options to choose characters from a variety of genres.  The characters could be male/female, male/male, female/female, superheroes, robots, even crash dummies.  Choosing who to play a role in a short movie is like being a director.  After choosing our casts, next xtranormal gives choices of sets which is the background or location of the scene and allows you to change actors/actresses and their voices from English to foreign accents.  There is a sound selection also that offers features of background sound and background music.  The sound selection must be choosing wise because it can become a distraction.  The tone of the background music and sound needs to match with the voice pitches so the audience can hear the conversation.  And finally the story’s section which allows you to type in the text boxes whatever you want your characters to say with the choice of ad-lives like looking at the camera, changing camera angles, motions, finger-pointing, face gestures, look at and pauses.  The characters lines must be reviewed with changes in the formatting for comparison to judge which scenes needs adjustments for story lines, sound and background.

Xtranormal.com offers may features we can use to translate our project into a movie.  In xtranormal format making the characters act dramatic was a strategy to building ethos.  Choosing humans to play our roles instead of robots or crash dummies in another way we incorporated ethos.  When  you text the characters story lines xtranormal gives you options to use a face gesture, pause, or look at the camera for an example.  Making the characters act out rather than talk what we typed was another one of our strategies.  We was able to type sources from our research in  a conversational manner by stating where they got their information.  There is a bubble feature that’s for adding titles or credits.  Asking a question in a precise wording can catch our audience attention because the wording will persuade you to want to answer the question and become a part of the discussion.  A pause is also a great way to catch the audience attention.  The strategies on xtranormal also allow you to use your own voice as another feature.  Composing in xtranormal our concepts from the evaluation proposal project was an amazing obstacle.  Creativity was the key because making characters act out a controversial topic was a challenge.  The writing process of lines for character was like putting an actual movie together.  But with the digital technology we were able to edit, save, listen, preview before publishing faster and more conveniently.  These strategies can also be link to Facebook, wordpress, twitter and others to receive comments and likes from online users.

PART 7:

Xtranormal is a site that brings movie making to the people. It allows people to make a movie using their own script and animated characters on the site. Xtranomal has numerous amounts of settings, actors, and music you can choose when making your movie. The subject of are movie is prostitution, in are movie there is a prostitute trying to convince the police officer to pay for sex.  The police officer turns her down and tries to take her to jail after he explained to her that prostitution is illegal. Then the prostitute explains to him why she thinks it should be illegal and the officer agrees.  In are video we use an exotic female in bra and panties and undercover office dressed in street clothes. The setting we choose was a bed room setting. The default characters and settings both contribute to creating an authentic environment and situation as possible just as it happens in real life. Xtranormal is a good site to use when making a movie but it does has some downfalls.

Xtranormal might not be one of the best sites to use because it’s an animated site. All the characters and settings are animated. This creates a cartoonish kiddy look in your movie.  This is not a good thing because if you’re making a movie for an older audience the animated look and loose them quickly. Also if you’re trying to give a message in your movie your audience has to listen and take it seriously. An example is in are movie the message is about legalizing prostitution. Prostitution is a very serious topic and the animation in the movie takes away from it. Are audience might not hear are message because they do not take the movie seriously. Things that we wish we could have done in are movie that were not available on the extra normal site were have more characters and settings to choose from or create our own characters and settings. Also have more scenes during the movie.

Creating are own characters from head to toe, dressing them, picking body hair and facial features would be fun. Having more scenes and camera angles during the movie would make it like an actual movie. A software program we could use instead of Xtranormal is Sony Vegas. This program lets you mix and edit movies using your own video character setting and script. It has a number of different tools to edit and create a movie.

posting my last post for the class to get my 10 points. im done with the project..... goodbye class.

Finally finished with the project waiting on the rest of my group to put some final touches to it.... Overall, I believe I've done very well in the class. This class helped me become a better writer. Love my professor. He is a great teacher. I think I’m leaving this class with a B or better. It time for the fall….. Summer I’ll see you next yearJ.