My Goal:

For my multimodal presentation, I will use a short film because I believe this will be the most effective way to communicate with an audience of Santa Clara University college students.  My goal is to identify the blatant forms of sexism occurring in social media, exploit them, then adjust the community to Santa Clara.  People may believe that sexism still exists, but fail to recognize it on their own campus.  Thus, bringing it to SCU allows for a local conversation to begin.  With this, I hope to inspire students to not only recognize the problems faced in our community, but also begin making a change.  In a way, this video is a call to action for my friends and peers.

 

Texting and Driving:

In order to develop the ideas for my own short film, I looked to previously created films.  One of the videos I found was centered around the implications of texting and driving.

 

 

This short film was extremely successful in the message it was trying to communicate because of the reality of the situation.  It does not address the reason the crash occurred until the end of the film which keeps the viewer interested.  When it does communicate the message about texting and driving it is extremely well done because it is so simple.  It only takes a second to get into an accident related to texting while driving and the consequences of it outweigh any possible benefit.

 

Drug Use:

In another example, an anti-drug company shows the ramifications of cocaine addiction.

 

 

This particular video is effective because it shows the enjoyable parts of the party scene with the reality of the situation.  In general, people like to party.  This video shows just how fun it can be to party, but it also illustrates the effects it can have.  At the end of the night, this girl had to go to the emergency room where all of her friends left her.  The reason this video is effective in its communication is because it is real, current, and aware of the realities of the party atmosphere.