Discuss the look and feel the issues (Second entry)

Comedy and humor vs. taking it seriously:

With all the toughness and danger homeless people have to face, it is impossible to make it through without humor or at least a touch of irony. My presentation will include some irony as well in order to keep my audience from ongoing pressure, yet I will stay away from jokes because they may degrade the level of awareness at which I want the issue to be foreseen.

Designing the project:

Colors
I am going to use several shades of grey for my backgrounds, that will include a grey scale background designs and patterns. Most of the images will also be black and white to add to an overall image of depression that will emphasize the issue of homelessness. Fonts will be of three colors; black-for placing on a light background, white- for darker backgrounds, and blue-for highlighting major topics. Graphs will be among the very few things that will be colorful, I am planing on creating a quality visualization data that is easy and interesting to observe.

Fonts
I am planning on using only one font, the classic Times New Roman, which it to be used in bold, underlined, and cursive to emphasize a minor topic, a key term, or a headline. I am purposefully not using fonts like comic sans or other fun looking fonts in order not to make my project immature.

Design layouts
I am planning to use a simple design without tilted texts or upside down graphs, this will keep the information easily readable and professionally looking.

Graphs, Imagery and other visual data will be planned later on during the research part of the project.

Persuasion of my material:

I will persuade my audience by a combination of emphasis (pictures and videos about day to day misery of homeless people) and professionalism of a clearly designed data which will add my project a credibility.


Making my point of view understood:

I will use a combination of three parts to explain my point of view: identifying the problem, providing statistics, and explain how my solution will work. This way I will raise the awareness, explain how massive it is, and explain my way to solve it.

My intention:

I am intending to design a freeware program that will be available to social workers as well as to homeless people who will be offered to use the program in local libraries (many libraries tend to attract homeless people as a shelter from summer heat and winter cold), or charity facilities.