Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Blog Exercise: Week 6

Syntactical Guidelines in Journalistic Story Packaging

The Not Just A Number site, by the Bay Area News Group, demonstrates a good use of the "stress" syntactical guideline because it uses "art" in the right places to draw attention, emphasis and interest to certain elements of the story package.




























The Being a Black Man site, a product of Washington Post doesn't make a significant enough distinction between the positive and negative in its use of dark tones. The interface and layout in general is almost mono-toned, making an emphasis on active and passive element of the design hard to pick out.

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