Category: Assignment 3 – Multimedia Skills

I updated the Twine story by adding a new multimedia principle and some Youtube videos. In a previous blog post, I introduced three multimedia principles related to the Twine story, and they are principles of segmenting, contiguity and signaling. The signaling principle is the idea that people can pay attention to the highlighted key information and make decisions based on that information. Through the principle of contiguity, the audience can imagine the end of the characters in the story based on pictures and words. And the principle of segmenting divides the story into several different parts and the audience can browse different parts of the story according to their own ideas. After reading the multimedia principles website again, I really think I should add the coherence principle to the Twine story.

The idea behind the principle of coherence is to use only simple text and images related to the story. So in my Twine story, I added short texts and pictures to describe the situation and surroundings the protagonist is facing, so that people can choose according to their ideas at the time. I hope I can tell the most concise story of words and pictures through the Twine.

In addition, I added some YouTube videos at the end of the Twine story so that people can visualize the end of the story more intuitively based on the video.

For this assignment, I improved my Google Earth project by implementing some multimedia principles.

First I used the principle of coherence in the project. Because I know that viewers can more intuitively understand the appearance and function of each marked position through pictures, I deliberately selected some pictures related to the appearance and function of the marked position and put them into my project. After the viewer clicks on the icon, they can quickly understand the information of the marked place through pictures and a short introduction.

Secondly, I used the signaling principle, and in the description of each marked location, I highlighted the keywords. Through the comparison of fonts and colors, the audience can quickly and accurately grasp the main points of the description.

The third principle I applied to the solution is the principle of redundancy.  In this project, I added some pictures related to the marked locations so that the audience can understand the appearance and functions of the marked locations through the pictures. In order for the audience to have a more comprehensive understanding of the marked locations, I briefly summarized the function and meaning of each marked location.

The last principle I used in this project is the principle of spatial continuity. Sometimes these icons may be so close that the viewer will click other icons by mistake. Therefore, I adjusted the position of each icon so that each icon can more accurately represent a different destination.

In the end, the principles I applied to the project not only made my project more organized but also made it easier for the audience to understand the main points of the project.

The link of my Google Earth project: https://earth.google.com/earth/d/1l78Ah0bxHBBEQ7pyyr8zBuWeDuEKMiX8?usp=sharing