For my remix, I am going to be using my research paper on Drug Addiction and Mental Health. I’m going to make a PowerPoint because I want others to see and visualize what I’m trying to convey because I know that most people don’t want to read a paper and it would be easier for them to understand it through something like a PowerPoint presentation. My audience would be everyone because it’s a topic that affects a lot of people and I feel as if its important for everyone to understand. I will be discussing music artists and how their mental problems coincide with drug addiction. I’m trying to convey the idea that drugs aren’t the problem and that antagonizing artists for using substances to cope with their mental illnesses won’t help anyone. It is more important to help artists than to criticize them for using substances as a coping mechanism, because it’s easy to judge but no one really knows what they’re going through. I will describe my argument with photos and videos. I will include lyrics and parts of their songs for the audience to get an idea of what is going on in the minds of these artists. Making it a multimedia piece will change my project into a visual representation of my topic. I feel like it would reach more people this way because it is already a topic a lot of people can relate to and turning it into a PowerPoint and presenting it can really speak to them more than a research paper. What’s lost is some probably just a few small details, but what is gained is that more people will want to know more about it. My personal motivation for tackling this project is that I can relate to this topic and it has effected my life.
Spring 2022
