2014年3月16日星期日

Entry 5

Infographic essay
“Behind The Scenes of Viral Music”

1) Outline the infographic essay
1. Digital download’s revenue and ad revenue of the 30 most-watched YouTube music videos in the past five years.
2. Six reasons make music go viral: emotional response, song quality, effort, creativity, relatable, other reasons.
3. What it takes to engineer the viral hit.

2) Provide the Rhetorical Situation of this essay
       Purpose: explore the phenomenon and reasons why music goes viral
       Audience: people who are interested in viral music
       Stance: objective stance
       Genre: analysis paper
       media/design: texts, pictures, infographics

3) While you are only outlining the essay--not writing it word-for-word--you can still get a feeling for what this essay would look like. How is the infographic different from the traditional essay you outlined?
The infographic uses pictures to show information and gives audience a vivid and visual image. It is easier to understand and analyze information for writing an outline. In traditional essay, we need to read carefully and summarize the important contents.

4) Strengths and weaknesses of the infographic: what does the infographic do better than the essay? What does the essay do better than the infographic?
Strengths: The way of presenting data is more interesting and eye-catching because it has visual aids instead of just text. Meanwhile, it is vivid because normally it is designed to interact with reader with animation. Infographic is also easier for readers to understand information clearly.
Weaknesses: By using infographics, some details may not be shown or included in the graphics, in which case some minor data needed notice are not well presented. So the essay does better in providing the complete content with detailed explanation of some information needed notice.

5) How does this qualify as an essay and not a series of pictures?
It is consider as an essay but not a series of picture, for it has clear purpose and main ideas, provide the analysis of data and give a conclusion to the result. 

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