Multimedia tools such as photos, videos, charts or audio clippings can help to enhance an online message. Multimedia tools can make a story more interactive for the audience. These tools are especially important when it comes to the absorption of information. Not everyone learns the same way. Adding multimedia tools to your webpage will allow people that are more visual or audio learners to have a better understanding of the information simply because they have another option for observing and taking it in.
Multimedia tools of various kinds are beneficial and effective in their own way. Creating a chart for data that is representative of numbers and statistics is appropriate when dealing with lots of numerical information. In another way, posting a video to represent an account of a breaking news story is effective to display live coverage of an event. When used correctly within the context of a webpage, multimedia tools can work together to create a better reading experience for the audience.
In the New York Times article by John Branch, Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek, Branch uses video testimony and audio from the victims as well as pictures to aid in the retelling of the tragic avalanche that took place in Washington state in 2012. The elements blend together seamlessly with the article to create a complete and thorough illustration of events for the reader. Because of the well placed multimedia elements, the story has more depth and brevity.
REFERENCES
Branch, J. (2012). Snow fall: The avalanche at tunnel creek. The New York Times. Retrieved from www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/#/?part=tunnel-creek.
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