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Rationale
of infographic
For my infographic I wanted to piggyback off of my
paper in a visual form to help my audience get a better stance of where I was
coming from. The infographic was slightly challenging like the paper because
like the paper there was so much information and different sources to use, I had
to narrow down which sources would provide my audience with the best
interpretation of the data. To start my infographic off I wanted to use a title
that would make my audience which is college athletes and incoming athletes,
want to view and read more into the topic. To do this I felt I needed to
present accurate facts as well as putting visuals in that people could read and
that were not dull. For most of the text I used a money green color because
they article is about paying student athletes and the color of money is green.
Also the green color is something that pops out on
the background that I chose. With certain graphs I used the color of the college
or university to display my graph data. In other parts of the infographic I use
data and pictures that I found from credible sources and articles which are
based on the same thing. I specifically choose articles that displayed their
data in a colorful manner but also had accurate data and related to the
specifics of what I was getting at. Also to give a better overall understanding
of what I was getting at I choose a specific sport as an example and elaborated
on that specific sport to show how much money the sport generates and how the
athletes do not benefit from it. Throughout the project I put in little
pictures hinting at my overall topic that student athletes should be paid I did
this so that as well as getting the data that they need to understand the
topic, they are getting that I am leaning toward the side of paying athletes.
In the begging of my infographic I started off with
a title bolded in green with money signs around it. This gives off the sense
that the topic is going to focus around money and I wanted it to be slightly
creative and different. Under my title I have a picture of what looks like a
student athlete with books and other items you would expect a student athlete to
have, he has on a jersey so it is very clear that he is an athlete. Around the
athlete are money signs and the picture itself relates back to the title of “pay
for play”. As you go further down the infographic that’s when my first amount
of data is presented. I start off with the main source of funding for student
athletes and that is the scholarships. I start with this because it is a common
theme that people believe that scholarships cover everything and this is why
student athletes should not get paid so I wanted to first kill this myth before
going further into my topic.
