Obituary

Creating two obituaries seemed like a very accurate representation of the meat industry. Billions of animals are killed every year, so why not represent two of them within an obituary. The purpose of an obituary is typically to commemorate a loved one who has passed away by telling a little bit about them and what they had accomplished during their lifetime. In the obituaries I created, I involved the same exact content, but rather switched the person for an animal. The resemblance in obituaries help create a feeling that the animals may be more than just for the purpose of food, but that they also live a life with feelings involved, similar to a person. The two modes of visual and writing are both involved. The mode of writing is the primary form of content, but the picture involved also helps in connecting the audience to the animal on a more personal level. The tone is set to be a melancholy one, since the death of anything is not an exciting, life-thrilling experience. This represents the meat industry as a whole to be a very melancholy setting; animals are slaughtered within minutes after another. The feelings the reader experiences while reading the obituaries help resemble how they should feel while supporting the meat industry in any way.

Plotagon

A Plotagon is an animated way of having multiple characters tell a story created by the publisher. Creating a Plotagon is very simple and costs little to no money to create. This display of genre helps with reaching out to an audience from a visual and writing concept. The two characters are communicating to each other while subtitles are still being shown. The subtitles help with being able to completely understand and process the conversation that is going on. The design of a Plotagon is more entertaining than most other genres, rather than reading a page long paper the audience is able to watch a video. The Plotagon is accessible online, allowing a wide audience to be contacted. The online format limits people to a certain extent; however, most people who have the ability purchase from the meat industry should also have internet accessibility. This form of genre is interest-based, to find the actual video, the audience would have to search for it. The purpose of the Plotagon is to raise awareness and promote spreading the word about the industry by displaying an everyday situation. The Plotagon portrays the easiness of the task; bringing up the topic of the meat industry is very topical due to its high importance in most people's lives.

social media

The genre of social media that I had chosen to help represent the meat industry was a Twitter page. Twitter is the most casual social media compared to Instagram and Facebook. The Twitter page is from the viewpoint of the pig itself. The pig tells about its life while going through the process of being grown for the specific purpose of profit. The page is updated approximately every 5-10 days on how much she currently weighs and what is happening within her life at the time. The Twitter page is very accessible, as you do not actually need to have an actual Twitter account to view the page. Twitter is a large, broad audience not targeting anybody in particular. The cost of publishing a Twitter is also free, making it a good way to publicly raise awareness about a pig's life encounters when involved in the industry. The Twitter page appeals to both the ethos and pathos approach. Ethos is portrayed in the credibility by the way that the pig publishing the actual tweets should know exactly what is going on within her own life. Pathos is also approached within the content of the tweets. The meat industry process is not a peaceful and happy one; therefore, the tweets are not either.