Complicated feeling about…

Bei Zhou
Bei Zhou
Jul 10, 2017 · 3 min read

Complicated feeling about…

Last weekend, I browsed NYTimes 2016: The Year in Visual Stories and Graphics. The most enjoyed one gave me a complicated feeling.

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The article’s name is Our Boat Was Intercepted by China, you can understand why I felt complicated. It mixed by amazing of the multimedia’s mix-using and a little proud of motherland’s strong, and of course worry about peace which means what you see or what I know may just be Rashomon.

(website link :https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/07/10/world/asia/south-china-sea-scarborough-shoal-philippines-hague.html)

  • The piece is about the dispute of south china sea. Fishermen of Philippines are no longer fishing in that sea area because china sent ships to make them leave, which shows in the piece is really illegal and rude.
  • A piece which is journalistic needs to show different angles of the event, such as, why China attach such an importance to this area, if exchange positions, what should America do to this important area? So the focal point should be the contradiction between nation and individual. Maybe it’s right to protect the benefit of a country, but the victims are always normal people.
  • No rich opinions and single version are the drawbacks of the piece.But still I like it because you can find so many different ways to tell the story, videos, graphics, maps, texts, and those were all made into a style like a book, made you anxious to read it. When you turned to first page, the content of the book start to move.
  • Nowadays, our attention is torn into pieces, multimedia can help us to gain that precious attention. Grab one in the first sight is one of the real good use in this piece.
  • Because it’s no enough opinions, the piece is not long, if we can set some shape turns in it could be better, this world is not black and white, it’s grey, and it’s good to let we people know it.
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