Moving To Australia Essay

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“Moving to Australia” is a presentation designed for overseas students that are hesitant to come to Australia for their undergraduate preparation. I have been invited by an agency to talk to students about my experience when I moved to Australia.

I will focus on giving students the good aspects and the bad, but especially persuade them to make the decision to come to Australia.

My target audience are 18 to 25-year-old international students. Using Duarte’s (Duarte, 2008) template to map my audience needs I discovered that I can relate to them in a personal level as, I once, was one of them. The primary reason they are going to listen to me is to discover what moving to Australia is really about and hopefully be motivated. They are worried
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This slide contrasts the sad message from the previous slide. I decided to make it more yellow than blue to transmit an optimistic and empowering feeling.

The text presented enhances the message of support by scaling up the word “Support”. Also the illustration of a woman about to climb a mountain, is a metaphor for support and empowerment.

To bring the imagery of the metaphor to life I first added dimension to my blue section. This creates depth between the mountains which makes them more interesting and clearly sets them as the figure in the composition.

Secondly I added a circle in the yellow area. Thanks to the previous knowledge of my audience they will identify this circle as a sun. furthermore, the slight change in color aid differentiation and contrast from the rest of the yellow area.

My message in this slide goes back to a sad or doubtful feeling.
To get my message a cross I needed to create an oppressive environment for my illustration.

The background recedes thanks to the dark and dim blue tones. It only allows the illustration a small yellow circle. This makes the image feel enclosed. By adding the text representing her thoughts the image transmits a feeling of pressure that it is also being created by the other elements in the

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