Anna Thyen, Natalie Weiss, Preston Quam, Nanxi Yan

For our project, we decided to do a PowerPoint interactive presentation for our picture essay. On the OWL website we found the Visual Rhetoric: Use of Images to be very helpful when bringing our PowerPoint together. Our main task in this project is to take clear and focused pictures to show incoming freshman around campus. The OWL talks about an important point of making sure the pictures are clear and everything can be seen well. This website also talks about how many beginning designers tend to take pictures from the internet instead of their own. When copying internet pictures, there may be a result in unclear visual effects. We plan to take as many of our own pictures as possible to stray away from this problem. Clutter is another main problem that may arise when pictures are used. The OWL shows how some pictures may be seen better when they are manipulated to focus on what the composer wants. We plan to cut and crop our pictures to have the least amount of clutter possible. Along with the pictures, a main part of our PowerPoint presentation is the map explaining where everything was taken. The OWL talks about many different kinds of graphs, by showing that if these graphs are not relevant to your project then they should not be used. The website also explains how there are different types of graphs for many different types of information. For example we wouldn't want to use a pie chart or something like that for a map of Purdue. We plan to make the map as clear as possible, so it clearly can help incoming freshman get where they want and need to be.