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Now that I think of it/remember, everything we physically see in this dim room is light. White is a mixture of colored lights. White is the most noticeable and illuminating light in the room.

SHOOT LIST ASSIGNMENT PART 2: bird’s eye view, monochrome, paparazzi shot of TA, close up, high angle, person from behind, from the hip, shadow, blur, wide shot.

SHOOT LIST ASSIGNMENT PART 1: isolated color, privileged vantage point, low light, image of image, extreme rule of thirds, sun spots, texture, small event/everyday, low angle, unnatural light.

Multimedia writing is writing with the use of text, images, videos, audio, and other interactive types of media. It is more participatory and engages more of the audience’s senses, compared to traditional text-based writing. Multimedia goes past the confining limits of traditional writing by not only allowing readers to read a story and try to imagine it in their heads, but also allowing them to see, watch, and hear the story. Multimedia writing has the capability of presenting multiple aspects and views of the one story. This capability can create a very cohesive experience for the audience. Multimedia can also affect the audience’s feelings and emotions. Multimedia can easily transport the audience into the story (since it engages more of their senses) which can let the story pass down its emotions and touch the audience’s souls. For instance, my group’s multimedia project aims to give the Isla Vista police a voice, and I believe multimedia writing allowed us to fulfill this goal in so many more ways than traditional writing could have done. The images gave a pleasant visual of what the cops we interviewed look like, compared to a possibly more hostile visual that could have formed in readers’ heads had they read strictly text. The infographics created a quick and easy and perhaps more pleasant experience of understanding the Isla Vista Foot Patrol structure and history, which would have been a longer and more arduous process for readers had they read strictly text. Most importantly, our project’s audio from our interview with the cops helped place readers in the seats we were in when chatting with the cops at Caje in Isla Vista. I think it helps readers realize that cops are humans with souls and emotions just like all of us, and I think gets readers to give the cops more mercy or empathy than before listening. Audio lets readers hear the cops’ sincerity and passion in their voices, which makes the story more powerful than if it was told through pure text. I think it could make readers want to sit down and have some heartfelt talks with the cops as normal human beings rather than brutal law enforcers, like my groupmates and I did. Multimedia shares authors’ experiences and emotions more directly, which I find more dramatic and enticing compared to traditional writing.