Interactive Features On Boston.com

We were asked to talk about some of the interactive features in the educational features on boston.com. The only problem is I did not see any interactive features that made this site unique other than the top MCAS scores for the state. I wish I had more to find that was unique and interactive about this site but I did not see anything else.

Define Terms For Class

We Were Asked in class to define these terms in our blog:

Shot Composition: The way someone sets up a video or picture before they shoot.

Editing: Changing The order of events in a film to correspond with how the creator likes.

Narration: Someone describing an event in their own words that has happened.

Documentary: A Non-Fiction movie without actors.

Fiction: A story about something that has not actually happened or will never happen.

Non-Fiction: A real story with real events and people.


We were also asked to watch 2 videos from the NY Times website describe how the vocabulary we just defined is used in the video.

This video has shot composition because the person is directly in the center of the shot with enough background to balance out.

Not all shots were taken at once they were taken over time and they order that they were taken was probably changed as well.

Narration was incorporated into the film although it wasn't really a documentary, i guess you could call it a cooking lesson.

This video was not fiction, it was about real cooking which would make it a non-fiction video.

I Will try to incorporate all of these things except fiction because this is an autobiography.

To Watch The Video

NY Times Video Composition

We were asked to watch a clip of a video on the NY Times website, nothing specific, so i chose RAMBO 1985. They use mostly film and interviewing with good shot composition. Shot composition is how the shot is taken with what in the background. It also had narration over the video. Narration is someone speaking about a story.

Interactive Features Of The NY Times Politics

Aside from what I am about to talk about I just wanted to say that I am happy the way the election turned out because everything I voted for went my way.

It is hard for me to describe about how some of the features on this page are considered "Interactive Journalism", but I'll do the best I can.

Some of the multimedia features are the debate maps and a video of Obama's victory speech, but other than that I just thought that everything is similar to a lot of other political websites.

Interactive Journalism On BBC

We were asked to blog about what kind of interactive journalism is on BBC's website. And the only interactive items on BBC's website is (that I thought at least) were the U.S. presidential election maps and the battleground maps but overall I would not call this site very interactive (to my knowledge), even though they have been an extremely large broadcasting company for a long time; I still think they could make it a little more interactive. Although it does broadcast the news in 32 different languages on its website.