Pine Point Vs. Snow Fall
An Interactive Evaluation
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Pine Point
01
Welcome to Pine Point is a 2011 interactive story by Michael Simons and Paul Shoebridge produced in Vancouver from the National Film Board of Canada. The website surveys in retrospect moments that residents had from the former mining community in Pine Point, as well as the Northwest Territories.
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Snow fall
02
Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek, is a 2012 interactive story by John Branch from the New York Times. The website illustrates the 2012 Tunnel Creek avalanche, and has become very poignant among online journalism, winning a Pulitzer prize, and being featured in a myriad of different articles praising the story.
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Throughout Pine Point, various visual elements are used in a scrapbooking-type way, with warm colors and backgrounds to bring a nostalgic feeling to the story. Authors included videos to transport the reader to the town, and although the visuals were low quality and the images a little grainy, it adds to the authenticity of the story as well as the connectivity that the user has with the anecdotes and the historical descriptions.
Visual Elements
The animations throughout the pages are a little drawn-out, and at times some of the moving backgrounds and images can become overbearing and disengage focus.
Visual Elements
Throughout Snow Fall, photograph slideshows and interactive videos are used to depict the disaster, as well as an abundance of text chunking to strongly characterize individuals involved, as well as what somebody possibily could have thought in the very moment.
The article is very professional, with coloring and structure stay proficient and consistent throughout the story. Additonoanlly, it uses embedded videos and animated backgrounds to illutsrate important facts such as a timelapse on the large storm at Steven's Pass. At times, the argument could be made that the text is too overbearing, and not all readers will be able to retain all that information in an engaging manner.
Pictured: Visual elements used by the New York Times article
Info
Throughout Pine Point, auditory elements such as background music, ambience, foley sounds, and other recordings are used. The background music stays constant (unless muted), and there are page flip sound effects guiding you throughout each section of the story.
Auditory
Elements
The background music consists of an ambient pad/flute, a sub and some light bells. There are not many high or low ranged frequncies, and it is quite muddy around 632hz. The audio used overall compliments the story well to give it authenticity.
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In Snow Fall, audio elements include recordings of the incident through 911 calls, as well as the videos including audio such as foley and ambience. It is not as thorough as Pine Point in respect to audio.
Auditory Elements
Conclusion
Pine Point mainly relies on engaging and sporadic animations, audio/visual heavy pages, and color/structuring in order to give the reader an insight into the mining of Pine Point. The quality of the digital portion is impressive for its time, however on occasions the information can be difficult to obtain because of the prevalence of digital elements. Nonetheless, it may be easier to read for a younger demographic, as these elements can prove to be attractive to those individuals who may desire constant stimuli. Snow Fall on the other hand is very text heavy, and coming from the New York Times, I am not surprised at the formalities in the language, as well as how they structured the interviews and combining it with B-roll. The occasional engaging elements, including the embedded videos, the animations of the storm, etc., allowed the reader to decompose after indulging in masses of text. The slideshow had very professional photos, and overall the story was attractive in the sense that the quality made you ignore the sheer mundanity of the text.
Prioritize it and give visual weight to the main elements.
Plan the structure of your communication.
Define secondary messages with interactivity.
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Pine Point Vs. Snow Fall
An Interactive Evaluation
Start
Pine Point
01
Welcome to Pine Point is a 2011 interactive story by Michael Simons and Paul Shoebridge produced in Vancouver from the National Film Board of Canada. The website surveys in retrospect moments that residents had from the former mining community in Pine Point, as well as the Northwest Territories.
Next
Snow fall
02
Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek, is a 2012 interactive story by John Branch from the New York Times. The website illustrates the 2012 Tunnel Creek avalanche, and has become very poignant among online journalism, winning a Pulitzer prize, and being featured in a myriad of different articles praising the story.
Next
Throughout Pine Point, various visual elements are used in a scrapbooking-type way, with warm colors and backgrounds to bring a nostalgic feeling to the story. Authors included videos to transport the reader to the town, and although the visuals were low quality and the images a little grainy, it adds to the authenticity of the story as well as the connectivity that the user has with the anecdotes and the historical descriptions.
Visual Elements
The animations throughout the pages are a little drawn-out, and at times some of the moving backgrounds and images can become overbearing and disengage focus.
Visual Elements
Throughout Snow Fall, photograph slideshows and interactive videos are used to depict the disaster, as well as an abundance of text chunking to strongly characterize individuals involved, as well as what somebody possibily could have thought in the very moment.
The article is very professional, with coloring and structure stay proficient and consistent throughout the story. Additonoanlly, it uses embedded videos and animated backgrounds to illutsrate important facts such as a timelapse on the large storm at Steven's Pass. At times, the argument could be made that the text is too overbearing, and not all readers will be able to retain all that information in an engaging manner.
Pictured: Visual elements used by the New York Times article
Info
Throughout Pine Point, auditory elements such as background music, ambience, foley sounds, and other recordings are used. The background music stays constant (unless muted), and there are page flip sound effects guiding you throughout each section of the story.
Auditory
Elements
The background music consists of an ambient pad/flute, a sub and some light bells. There are not many high or low ranged frequncies, and it is quite muddy around 632hz. The audio used overall compliments the story well to give it authenticity.
See more
In Snow Fall, audio elements include recordings of the incident through 911 calls, as well as the videos including audio such as foley and ambience. It is not as thorough as Pine Point in respect to audio.
Auditory Elements
Conclusion
Pine Point mainly relies on engaging and sporadic animations, audio/visual heavy pages, and color/structuring in order to give the reader an insight into the mining of Pine Point. The quality of the digital portion is impressive for its time, however on occasions the information can be difficult to obtain because of the prevalence of digital elements. Nonetheless, it may be easier to read for a younger demographic, as these elements can prove to be attractive to those individuals who may desire constant stimuli. Snow Fall on the other hand is very text heavy, and coming from the New York Times, I am not surprised at the formalities in the language, as well as how they structured the interviews and combining it with B-roll. The occasional engaging elements, including the embedded videos, the animations of the storm, etc., allowed the reader to decompose after indulging in masses of text. The slideshow had very professional photos, and overall the story was attractive in the sense that the quality made you ignore the sheer mundanity of the text.
Prioritize it and give visual weight to the main elements.
Plan the structure of your communication.
Define secondary messages with interactivity.