Week9-1 Progress of Project
As I planned last week, my final project is mainly going to use the text, photos and audio as the basic types which present the homosexuals in Hong Kong over the past ten year. According to my arrangement, I detailed the forms of my final project this week.
Text and photos
Because I am still relying on the text content in my project, I divided a whole story into four or five short parts (depends on my interview progress) in order to tell the story easily and clearly. For each part, I have a relevant topic of homosexuals in Hong Kong basically categorized by the interviewees’ opinions and standpoints. Basing on the text, I illustrate each part with several photos (at least two) related to the topic I discussed in the part. For instance, I am talking about the activists of homosexual action in Hong Kong so in this part, readers will see short paragraph with more than two photos about this topic. The form relying on text with graphic illustrations is quite common for people writing blogs today. The most popular blog in mainland China “Lao Qu” is generally using this kind of form. To me, it’s a easy understanding and casual design for people to read. However, since my project is not a personal blog but a online journalism project, I try to tie the text closely with photos in order to attract viewers’ continuing reading.
For the length of the text, both Foust and Mindy emphasize “the shorter the better” principle. It’s true that short paragraph will be more available for drawing readers’ attention than long ones do in the age of online journalism. But to me, compared with short text, I’d like to focus on “writing tight” principle that Mindy mentioned in his tips.
