Handcuffed for Making Clock, Ahmed Mohamed, 14, Wins Time With Obama
This first article uses three different types of media, those being text, video, and interactivity. The text goes very in depth on what the article is about, giving a lot of details and information. The video gives more of a summary of the story, and then the interactivity of being able to share, comment, tweet and etc.The text was very informative, giving every detail that we need to know about the story and all that happened around the story like the celebrities that supported the kid and gave him nice advice and compliments via Twitter. The video was a nice touch to have the basic information about the article and also the view from the police on the story and why they arrested the kid.
I feel like they should have used more pictures throughout the article to make it more interesting and less massive with the very long and "scary" text. I don't believe that I'm the only person who gets discouraged to read an article that simply has a very long text. They could have used the pictures of the tweets that were mentioned in the story, that alone would already make it more attractive
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/17/us/texas-student-is-under-police-investigation-for-building-a-clock.html?_r=0
Chile rocked by deadly 8.3 magnitude earthquake
This article also uses three types of media, text, videos, and the interactivity with other things throughout the article.
The text this time is not so long, or at least doesn't feel as long as the text on the first article because it is broken in parts by other videos and pictures, which makes it more attractive. The article starts with a video in the beginning, again the video summarizes what the story is about, and another video in the article, a Instagram video from a citizen, shows the reaction of the people while the earthquake was happening. There is one picture used in the middle of the article that shows a map specifying where in Chile the earthquake actually happened. The text has many hyperlinked words that takes you to other related stories, making you spend more time on their website. The interactivity of the website is very effective, giving you many option to interact with the article, the writer and the public. They give you the option of sharing it in different social media websites, email, tweet, and also comments on the article, which in my opinion gives it a lot of interactivity to the piece.
One thing that I think that could be improved on this website is to make the comment section more obvious and visible, so people can easily see it and leave some comments to interact with other people about their different opinions on the article. Another thing to be improved is to use a few more photos, I believe that photos always give more depth to the story, it makes people feel more connected to it.
Wildfires destroy hundreds of California homes
This article uses text, video and pictures, and some interactivity.
The article starts with a video explaining the story and summarizing all about it, and also giving the reader many emotional scenes, which makes people feel more connected to the story. The same emotional aspect is used in the pictures throughout the article, very sad pictures make people stay on the page to know what happened and why those people were so sad, I think the public feel very connected to a story when they see other people sad and in need of help. The text is very explanatory and detailed, giving even some statistics at the end of it. The is some interactivity in this article, people are able to share the story on a few different social media websites.
This site is lacking on interactivity, they are missing a comment section, which is terrible because people nowadays love to make comments of the stories, just to be able to get other people's reactions and opinions. And I also think they could have added more videos to the story to make people at least stay a little more on the website and get more interested in the story.
Gustavo Comonian
Great job - see Blackboard for your grade.
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