Blog 6: Multimodal Project Proposal

• Remind me and yourself of your original critical question
• My critical question is "As we age, do we become more or less closed minded, and how does this affect our ability to have happiness?" In my first Project, I focused on the growing up, and the innocence aspect of the question. Project 2 was more about a life long journey and growth. Lastly, one part of the question I didn't touch on, is the closed and open-mindedness.
• What new sub-question or sub topic would you like this project to address.
• The sub-question or topic I want to explore is closed-mindedness, and how it affects the daily aspects of life, positively or negatively. 
• What do you want the purpose of this piece or these pieces to be? What work do you want your text(st) to do in the world? How do you want people to think, act, feel, or be different as a result of your text(s)? Note, if you decide to do multiple texts/genres each text might have a different purpose.
• The message I want to get across is that most everything we have learned in our life has been from either personal experience or being told. So, by accepting what one knows is true, and I'm talking a bit generally, is like saying that "I've experienced everything and seen with my own eyes, to say that this is the truth" and therefore act on that conclusion. But then, if a person is misinformed or uninformed, they will be subject to whatever consequences come their way for acting short sighted.  I wanted to focus on the food industry but because of a time crunch I'm unable to do that. However, I love Korean culture. I'm in Love library typing as fast as I can so I can read the book about an old King from the 1500s. It seems to be, most times I tell people that I'm a student of Korean and want to study abroad, they have a puzzled look and ask, "Why South Korea?"
• This question is semi-frustrating, because its like asking "Why do you like The Office?" Its an unanswerable question. Usually I tell people its because its the suicide capital of the world, which most of them don't appreciate. Anyway, I want to show that, Korean culture is extremely fascinating, and that just because one hasn't heard about it, doesn't make it a undesirable destination.
• Who do you imagine for your audiance for your text(s)? Desicribe, as specifically as possible who you imagine reading/seeing your text? Are they simillar to another existing audinace (like readers of X blog or magazine) or are they a group you're defining (like UNL students)? What shared values, insterests, location, gender, age, class, religion, race, etc. do they have in common? Note: If you are doing multiple texts, each will likely have a different audiance.
• The audience I want to direct it too, would be travel enthusiasts, people planning a trip or my boss, who constantly bothers me with the same questions. Shared values would be an interest in history, traveling and culture, location could be anywhere but Korea, I imagine that this would be directed towards an older audience, Christian because Korea is the most Christian Asian country, and not upper class, but someone who has the means to travel.
• What genre(s) do you plan to compose in? Depending on how you choose to structure your project, you might have one genre (i.e. one text) with many modes or several genres, each with only a few modes. Be specific in defining your genre (for example, go beyond just calling something a blog or youtube video--what particular kind of blog or video would it be).
• My approach is totally dependent on how achievable an idea I had is. So, it would be in form of a Illustrated book from two different perspectives, one, a closed minded person who stereotypes SK, and then two, the other person who knows what SK has to offer. 
• What are the modes you think each genre will use?
• The modes would be text, color, design, illustration, 3d glasses, and possibly a hand drawn map with popular destinations.
• Right now, how do you understand the conventions of this genre?
• The conventions would relate directly to SK because it would be landscapes of SK, the history, the language, the culture, everything that makes up what south Korea is.
• Right now, what might you use as a model text. Be specific here. If it is  something from online, include the link to it here.
•  "Jazzie the Pretty Ugly Dog" written and designed by my sister Stephanie 
• http://www.stephwerning.com/the-pretty-ugly-dog