Infographic

                                    Link to infographic:
                                   https://magic.piktochart.com/editor/piktochart/17472968#

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.