Ahhh we meet again. Last quarter I was tasked with condensing a lengthy, academic paper into brief blog post and now I am tasked with condensing a 10-page paper into a different medium. Similar concept, but this time I get a little more freedom to choose the format of the translation.
Yes! Freedom!
This time I find the task a little less daunting. This is the fun part that this whole quarter of research has built up to. I had to do all the heavy lifting in order tomato an informed multimodal project. My first idea was to create a Facebook page to inform students about Greek life. This idea flopped because I had a hard time displaying the information the way I had imagined and it would have involved making a fake Facebook account. Hmmm…back to the drawing board.
After doing some brainstorming, I decided on a creating a poster. At first I wasn’t quite sure how I would display this poster, but after some thought and help from classmates, I decided that it would be most effective if it was posted in the sorority and fraternity houses.
My goal was to display the positive aspects of being involved in Greek life, such as brotherhood/sisterhood, service, leadership, and community. Although parties, especially ones with an open invitation to all SCU students, build the bonds of our community, I chose to avoid using photos from these events because they are often associated with negative aspects of Greek life. I wanted to encourage sororities and fraternities to embrace more of their core values.
My original poster
At first I had a single picture of the mission church, shown above. I decided that it was missing the parts that define Greek life, and it didn’t really show what they do. As result, I decided to slightly change course once again. With the help of some friends, I was able to collect photos from various sisterhood/brotherhood events and philanthropy events while also showing leadership. This project is still in the works, but stay tuned for the final product!