English 570: Introduction to Multimedia

Northern Arizona Univeristy, Flagstaff AZ, U.S.A.

Purpose: Most projects need a proposal before a supervisor or manager can okay the work. Your job is to do the preliminary work BEFORE spending lots of time and effort on a job unnecessary on the wrong path.

Goal: You are to develop a project that gives an experience of peace. What is peace? When is peace possible? What does peace look like? Is peace only in absence of war? Is peace guaranteed when there is no war? You are to make an argument for peace by showing that peace is possible, attainable, and the kind of work needed to maintain peace. How will your audience experience your presentation? Which images? Sounds? Order of presentation? Kind of presentation?

Specifications: Use the template presented here as a basic format for your proposal. If your area requires a specific citation format (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.), use that.

Remember that a common proposal includes $ breakdown. How many working hours the project will take, and sometimes you need to break down all the tasks for the team members involved. You do not need to include these details for this proposal.

Template

Date:
[4 spaces]

To:
From: [when submitting hard copy, always inital next to your name]
[1 space]
Subject/Re: "Proposal for ..."
[2 spaces]
"We propose to..."

"Currently, the topics on peace we will focus on include...."

"The audience for our paper and project are my classmates and campus visitors as well as an international digital audience."

PLAN AND SECONDARY SOURCES

"Our plan for the paper is to ..."

• Follow up on A,B, and C in periodicals and journals
• Set up interviews with D and E
• Get the video "important video" through interlibrary loan

"Our plan for the project is to..."

• Work through Word's templates on X
• find visuals of Y
• Create a portfolio/webpage/newsletter/pamphlet/iMovie... [whatever project you think you will do).

Presently our 3 sources include:

• Make sure you include a FULL citation of your sources