Media Monitoring 6

5.2.3 Pictures & Texts & Captions
The story has three pictures with three texts, which spread evenly throughout the page and all stand the right side to the words.

The first picture, in the middle of intros, is full views of skyscrapers standing in the Victoria Harbor, with a caption saying what the biggest reason for HK’s success is.

The second picture, in the middle of first section “little change”, is one interviewee who is a taxi driver standing in front of her car, with her saying about her loving homeland as a caption. These two pictures work well in concert with contents around them.

The third picture, in the middle of the last section “China’s menace”, is the 87-year-old man whose words is quoted far earlier in the intros sitting on threshold beside a doorpost, with a caption pointing out that he, as well as many others, feels little difference in the decade.

Actually there are two quotations from him both of which are in the first five or six paragraphs, but it is strange that his picture is shown in the bottom of the page. It could cause confusion to readers to some extent.

The first and third texts are both the interviewees’ saying with their names and occupations as captions.

The second text is right in middle of the page which shows in fact readers comments on the story. Though it occupies advantage point, readers need to roll the mouse a few times if they want to find place to comment, for the story is a little long which length could fit three screens.

5.2.4 Interviewees
There are seven interviewees. Three of whom are ordinary people, whose sayings are aiming at indicating people’s life have no significant change. Three are professional, one economist, one political analyst, and a professor, whose statement are more academic rather than official. And an only government official, the HK Human Rights Monitor.

6 Comparisons
It is the medium characters that determine the process of story construction and also shape the final product. There is no visual image or document with radio, no sound or moving pictures with newspaper, nevertheless, varied types of text, graphics, audio and video could be put online.

For the sake of attracting own audience, the story is treated differently to make a medium stand alone with others.