Blog 10

 

My mother was almost killed when she was 18 years old. She was hit by a drunk driver and ended up in a coma for a week. Her face was completely torn apart from the glass that shattered in her car, she suffers bipolar depression and memory loss now. During the past summer, two of my friends smashed into a pole and died from drinking and driving and not wearing their seatbelts. I see so many of my friends getting into their cars to drive after having a few drinks without thinking twice about the consequences. There is nothing that scares me more than to think something bad could happen to them in the short amount distance they drive, so I was thinking about convincing people not to drink and drive and include something about wearing seat beats. My audience would be teenagers/ college students because they are at the highest risk to be impulsive and drink and drive. I think the most effective way to target my audience would be to create a short video, like a commercial. I would make it either really sad, such as a friend dying, or I would make it intense, such as showing the car smashing into something. These techniques would help evoke some type of reaction from my audience.

I then started thinking that I might not have much to write about to persuade, so I might do something about domestic violence and telling women to stand up and speak out against abuse. I would target young women and create a commercial comparing child abuse to women abuse. My topic could also be about child abuse. I would target elementary school kids and make a little video that I would show them.