Mayra Gonzalez

Professor Marca

English 113

26 April 201

CSU Nasty

Have you ever been in a dirty bathroom? Has it made you held you pee in because you are disgusted? Our website addresses the issue of the restrooms in CSUN being dirty. The message to the audience is how everyone needs to clean up after themselves in order to fix the issue. Our point gets across by rhetorical devices throughout our website in which is the method we get our point across. On the top of our website we located five tabs that each focused on different rhetorical devices. Our decisions were directed in specific to students at CSUN.

The website displays the colors red, white, black and grey. We broke our website into five different tabs on the top. The tabs include the homepage where pathos is displayed through images and a small intro located in the left to get emotion from our audience. The second tab is of a dirty restroom image located in the left and a list of the germs that a dirty restroom can cause (logos). The third tab is the interview’s which displays two images of students and a conversation between a janitor at CSUN who spoke out in which are people who see this issue displayed everyday (ethos).  Our fourth tab has lyrics to our jingle located down the middle and a link that takes you to a video in which we made that displays our reaction of the issue and delivers a message of cleaning the restrooms through our jingle (pathos). The last but not least tab is an about us page which is a page that we students from CSUN created to other students at CSUN and included the reason behind our website and our emails in case they need to contact us (ethos).

Our website appeals to pathos by the pictures, colors, and interviews we have on our web. The websites background is black and gray because the issue is something that reflects darkness in CSUN.  We used the colors red and white as the color of our text to capture the viewer’s attention because it contrasts with the darkness of the back round. The title for our webpage is CSU Nasty and is located on the top of our home page in big white letters making a statement. The main picture that is big and located in the center of our webpage is a closer look into a restroom stall. The pictures located in the middle of the web were close ups of hair, yellow toilet seats, and paper thrown everywhere to capture an emotion from an audience. We also interviewed students to ask them their opinion of the restrooms got different emotions. A lady by the name of Kathern screamed out “ There awful,” while we were interviewing someone else, which clearly showed her emotion towards the restrooms. The pictures, and interviews we choose to display on our site were to get an emotion from our viewers.

Logos is used in our webpage by mentioning how budget cuts have made a difference by cutting janitors, which meant restrooms get cleaned less often then before. It is logical that we should clean up after ourselves. We have links on our webpage that lead our viewers to different diseases that improper sanitation can cause. Logic plays a role in our webpage by displaying the diseases it will make students at CSUN keep restrooms clean. It is common sense that people should treat their school as if it is their second home because it is a place we like it our not we spend a majority of time at. No one wants to catch a disease and no one should be proud of having gross restroom because it only makes our school look bad in which it reflects back on us and can threaten our health being.

Ethos is in our webpage through the interview link located on the top of our page. That page was focused on the students overall thoughts of the restrooms. There opinion is credible on our webpage since they do pay tuition to come to this school, their voice matters because they are the ones who witness the mess as well. Students are credible to our webpage because they are the ones who witness horrifying things in the restrooms and are the ones to notice and speak the truth. Ethos is also displayed in the middle of the page in red words were it describes a certain conversation between a janitor and a student which are two credible people who play a big role on the issue of the dirty restrooms.

CSU Nasty needs to just be CSUN and we should all be able to take pride in the school we attend. We should feel safe and be able to walk in to a restroom without wanting to run out the door or hold our “business” in. The webpage has graphic images that will really get a reaction out of the viewers (pathos). The images are located everywhere and we know people automatically look at pictures first. We had to get their attention to get them to read and look through our webpage and made sure our webpage was simple for our viewers to navigate our web page. We included facts that would get students at CSUN to be more cautious and respectful to our restrooms so we wont catch a disease (logos). The interview page is credible because the issue is from us students to students (ethos).

Here is our webpage enjoy

http://web.me.com/prlaverack/Site/Home.html

Web Page Making Decisions

Tuesday was the first day my group and I met to actually start collaborating our ideas on to the webpage. I brought my camera and went in to different restrooms located in the library to focus on pathos, logic and credibility. That day we found hairball on the floor and hair located on the sink. We were disgusted and knew that would be a perfect picture to capture an emotional reaction from the viewers of the website. We went in to each level and noticed there was paper located in the back of the restrooms where it gives the day and time the janitors clean the restrooms and noticed it wasn’t frequently cleaned. We took a picture of it to post on our viewers so they can get a reaction of how they don’t clean it frequent but also inform them. We had a discussion whether it was the student’s fault or the school because of the budget cuts but came to an agreement that it was the student’s fault. Jennifer researched some information on budget cuts about CSUN to use in our website as logos. It is only logical that because we do not have frequent cleaning in the restrooms students should clean up after themselves. We went around the library and waited for people to walk out the restrooms to get an interview with them about what they thought of the restrooms. We took notes and only some students allowed for us to take pictures. Most students were not too proud of how the restrooms in the campus looked. We had personal interviews to post in a section on a tab for our blog to use as credibility to show others were not the only one seeing this issue. Our issue is not just happening at CSUN but we hope to get everyone of our viewers to encourage them to clean up after themselves.

The Making of our Video on our webpage ( CSU Nasty)

On April 20 my group and I met at the library to concentrate on the video we made for our webpage. We discussed what the main point of our video was a couple days before then began to work on the lyrics to our jingle. The purpose of the jingle was to get a reaction out of our viewers in a different way.  We knew that most viewers and how professor Marca mentioned people don’t really like to read, and the first thing they look for is what is located in the middle or the bigger items on the webpage because it gets the viewers attention. Our jingle has a catchy beat from a famous song in Hip Hop from a website (Incompetech). We all came together in the making of our lyrics to the beat. We dressed like girl gangsters catch the viewers’ attention to click on the video. We also dressed like girl gangsters to make the audience laugh but then they will get a different sense of emotion once they really pay attention to the lyrics and the restrooms images. In our video we capture different angles of the bathroom being a mess and deliver a message to the viewers. We have a certain verse that Sally sang saying “ Clean it up, clean it up…” basically we are telling everyone to clean up after them selves because at the end of the day we are the ones who use the restrooms and get it dirty. If everyone wasn’t so lazy because it isn’t so hard to make sure you flush the toilet, put paper trash in the trash and use seat covers it would be less of a chance for anyone to catch a disease and be disgusted. We found out from a website (WebMD) that germs are everywhere and without proper care we are all in danger of a lot of diseases. We completed our jingle and hope our viewers think of our song when they hear the original song because our point was for it to be catchy but also have a message. In our video decision making we made sure it would get emotions out of our viewers ( Pathos).