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Presentation |
Le Figaro proposes, for the fall of Berlin wall 20th anniversary, a multimedia project. To commemorate this event, we can break the wall ourselves on line. The idea is that behind each part of the wall, there is a story or an animation … |
Radio Canada presents a multimedia project about Tar Sands. Actually, I will use this project for my class project. Like in the Figaro, behind each pictures is a special category or subject regarding tar sands. |
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Style of narration and content |
The style is more professional. There is also a pedagogical side, but it’s different from Radio Canada. RC seems to target a child audience, or a wide public, but Le Figaro target a more intellectual audience, and provide precise information (like in the timeline). You can read real articles, with a journalistic content. There is a lot of articles, which presents different sides of the subject, such as culture, history, news … Throughout the project, you can find plenty of hyperlinks. |
The style is very oral and quite familiar. That could be obvious, given that Radio Canada isn’t a print media. The sentences are very short, and written is a very pedagogic style. The journalist seems to write for children. Each statement is illustrated by a photo. As a matter of fact, the content is quite poor. There is not a lot of data, and where there is, they are badly used. This is an example, the data is interesting, but could be more precise. At the end of the project, you can find a page with hyperlinks, and there is also hyperlinks throughout the project. |
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Entertainment |
The first page, with the wall we can break is really well done. The sound is quite bothering, but it’s a good idea to try to use sound. The structure of the page is not really good, I mean the texts are presented as common articles of the Figaro, so no color etc. like in RC project. |
It’s obvious that the pictures are very well used in this project. There is a lot of pictures, for each quote you can see a picture of the person talking. The pages are very well constructed, colorful, with a graphic hierarchy (quotes are in italic, data in black …) Besides, I have to notice that the introduction is really good, it give us the want to read the project.
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Effectiveness of multimedia |
The Vuvox timeline is really well done. There is some videos included in the timeline, which is quite impressive, and very useful. We can also a find a slideshow, very well done, of interesting photos, which all have a caption (they don’t in the RC project). But, here again, there is a lack of sound. The interview, the testimony, we want to hear them. The same thing is also true for the pictures, we want to see the movement, a still photo to explain the fall of the wall it’s not enough. There was a lot of turmoil on that night, we want to see it. |
What is quite surprising for a media like Radio Canada is that there is a lack of sound and of video. Indeed, there is only one video , which is interesting, because it explains a process, but it’s not enough. We can notice that there is also a map to locate the Alberta tar sands exploitations. The pictures are useful. All the statements are illustrated. But it’s not enough. As I said, we want to see more videos, we want to ear some quotations. If the photos are good, they are not always interesting . We need a slideshow, or a soundslides. |
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Tools used |
We can see the journalists used vuvox for the timeline and the slideshows, |
I have no idea of what tool they used to do the entire presentation, probably flash player. But I think there is no other tool used, and they should have. |
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Ease of navigation |
The big problem of this presentation is the navigation. When you click on a part of the wall, you open another page, it’s bothering, and it’s long to load. |
The navigation is quite easy, you just need to click on the little arrow, or we have the menu on the top of the page. Besides, the pages are not too long to load. |
To conclude, I’m quite impressed by the Figaro project. Firstly, I thought that the RC project was more interesting, more constructed, but when I started to analyze them, I have to say that the Figaro is amazing. I mean, it’s a French media, and our medias have a lot of problem to face, especially with the rise of those new multimedia. Usually, French media are really bad with those projects and with multimedia tools, but there, I can see a real improvement. The Figaro project is much more a complete file about a subject than a project. I’m disappointed by the RC project, I wanted to use it for my final project, but I guess I will have to do more research because this project is really poor.
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