Hidden Mountain Secrets by Kerry Johnson -- A Book Review & Link to Giveaway!
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Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek Commentary
Depicting the horrifying story of a group of skiers trapped in the center of a devastating avalanche in 2012.
"Each snowflake added to the depth, and each snowflake added to the weight. It might take a million snowflakes for a skier to notice the difference. It might take just one for a mountain to move."
The multimedia piece was written by John Branch – New York Times reporter. To effectively portray the tone and content, the article employs traditional written language available in all classic periodicals as well as various types of media.
traditional written language available in all classic periodicals, as well as various types of media. Audio samples, video, images, and automated animations are also employed and displayed over a sequence of three-dimensional maps.
These various media formats are employed as tools that assist the readers in further grasping the whole context of the incident – making the multimedia article less complicated.
What makes Snow Fall different from other publications?
Easy!
Establishes a great opener.
Snow Fall included a great illustration that allows the readers to have an initial thought about what the whole article is about. Also, putting more emphasis on the technicality of the text, the title itself, "Snow Fall," was written with sedateness. This sets the overall tone and establishes the entire story topic.
Reveals the power of description.
It gave life to the avalanche.
Telling a real story and making it realistic are two different things, with each having their own difficulties. However, John Branch didn’t step down from the challenge. Snow Fall (as mentioned earlier) tells the real-life story of skiers who faced a catastrophic incident as they were swallowed alive by the avalanche.
Branch didn’t miss using a great figurative speech in which he personified the Avalanche and
Portrayed it as "the enemy" of the story.
"…fresh, soft snow — instantly became the enemy."
How every event was paired with a description helped the readers a lot on how to picture the occurrence more accurately. Also, the way that the texts were verbalized like a novel tingles the mind of a novel reader like me. The use of a lot of similes and metaphors was highly appreciated.
Multimedia publication breakthrough
When we talk about multimedia publication, it means a publication that incorporates various kinds of media (photos, moving images, audio recording, etc.). John didn’t disappoint when he embedded a short video clip of the interview of Elyse Saugstad as she was "mummified" by the horrifying avalanche, a slideshow of photos (with corresponding relevant captions), moving pictures, and even a three-dimensional map.
Bonus: The character’s name, age, and title are embedded in a clickable link in the respective selection that they were mentioned. – A very smart way to include the audience in the life of the character beyond what is mentioned in the selection. To give the readers a sense of reality. Seeing the names with the included photo and identification makes it feel more authentic.
With the recognition received, the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing and a Peabody Award come with the inspiration it imparts to the future of news and magazine publication. A cross between the print and digital worlds of publication.
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I GO THRU THE CALDECOTT ALL THE TIME
i didnt know i followed another walnut creek-er thats so fun i live there too
ok well technically i live in berkeley/concord (berkeley when i'm at my mom's, concord when i'm at my apartment), but i'm not about to pretend concord is better than walnut creek just cuz i happen to live there (i'm awesome, but even my presence isn't enough to make concord significantly cool enough to rival walnut creek. not bc i think walnut creek is some sort of blessing from the heavens or anything, concord just kinda sucks. it's not even really trying)
but yeah the caldecott is great!! i was driving through there to check on my apartment (currently house-sitting for mom) and make sure my soon to be ex-roommate got all her shit out (.....most of it. and i don't want to see her ever again so fuck it, i'll throw out her chicken myself if it's really that fucking difficult), and i just looked up and the tunnel and thought "wow this tunnel is really important to me, i never thought about that before"
but yeah it's just one of those places that holds a special place in my heart. sorta like that one trail near the little farm in tilden where i vaguely recall seeing ducks sometimes (even though there are plenty of places where i've also seen ducks. dunno why that one sticks out)
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So we just got
Traumatized Grover who is watching as he thinks he’s failing getting another demigod to camp
Newly crowned supreme lord of the bathroom Percy who is ready to make some friends (just not clarisse) and is still very confused about everything
Capture the flag Annabeth who has just assigned Percy the creek to unknowingly be used to lure out Clarisse
AND two bickering demigods stuck in Hephaestus tunnel of love trap
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