Obesity

            The multimedia project I chose was about combatting obesity and was created by Cody Mizell, Jill Mcnair, and Kayla Lanford http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1NoHCaLvi4 The multimedia project was really catchy and kept the attention of the viewer for the entire video. The authors tried to play upon the emotions of the viewer by relating a serious topic to them and showing them hundreds of others who have the same dilemma. The authors appeal to logos by showing with statistics how their topic relates to countless Americans and people around the world. The authors used first hand accounts of famous people to show support for their argument against obesity. The argument of the authors was to show how obesity is a major epidemic but it can easily be stopped. By raising awareness of the deadly and life changing side effects, people will want to exercise more and eat healthier. The authors even showed a first hand account to raise more awareness and they listed off multiple reasons that plague countless people around the world who are combatting obesity. The authors intended for their audience to be anyone who has trouble exercising or combatting their overweight problems.  The story was told at a 3^rd person point of view where each account was argument was documented and supported by facts.

            The authors did a nice job piecing the project together by mixing in videos with the normal text. By adding the history channel and the documentary on the one 500lb man, the viewer was kept entertained and wanted to keep watching. The music added to the video was extremely successful in keeping the viewer occupied because most people, if they have to read just some boring text, will skim it and miss the entire argument. The authors did a great job in limiting the amount of text in each slide, yet keeping in extremely informative. This kept the attention of the viewer.