Caleb's+Social+Issue+Project

Social Issue Project Idea:

The sketch isn't very good so I will do my best to describe my ideas for my project here. For my social issue topic I plan on making mine about the American economy mainly the national debt. I plan on using some kind of big flat surface. On the top of my poster I am going to write the amount of debt the U.S. is currently in. I'm going to write the numbers so they are big and curved and I also want them to pop out so I think I'll cut them out of a thick material (maybe cardboard) and paste them on my poster board. I am thinking about wrapping the numbers in newspaper (with news of the debt on the newspaper). Under the numbers I'm going to paste a image of a outline of the U.S. I want to make the outline of the U.S. look like it is being crushed by the numbers that are resting on top and like the numbers I want it to pop out. To do this I'm going to press down on the U.S. and make lines on it to make it looked cracked like glass and make it look kind of like it got stepped on. I'm not sure about the colors but I am leaning towards black and red. Debt numbers and U.S. map red and the background black or vise versa. Around the map I am considering writing facts about the debt, maybe a graph of the debt growth of the last decade or so. On top of the debt numbers I might paste outlines of the top countries that we owe money to but I'm not sure about this idea. Inside the U.S. outline I plan on maybe posting pictures of people or events that contributed to the debt growth.