At the very beginning of the lecture, the changes of newspaper were discussed. Newspaper texts are enriched with more images than before. But that’s not enough with images nowadays; we can notice that most of the Hong Kong online newspapers include a video for the news. As I read Apple Daily online every day, I’ll talk Apple Daily as an example to talk about this. Some of the news videos include CG animation which shows the whole incident or accident. Like this news, it talks about a man who swooned and fell down on the track. Luckily, other passengers save him.
This CG animation makes the readers feel as if they were there and witnessed the accident. People who don’t know any Cantonese can still understand what happened after watching those CG animations. On the other hand, there is a concern regarding those CG animations; they make reporting news like story-telling which is narrative more than just describing the facts. But I really think that the CG animations make reading newspaper much interesting than before.
I love watching Apply Daily News with CG animations too! That is really interesting and it's a breakthrough for news report! However, readers have to bear in mind that the animations may not be objective all the time. They just link up the relevant information and make up the animations. For example like this:
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No one really knows what had happened inside the bus because at the time when the CG was made, the survivers have not told the truth yet. So readers have to be careful not to be mislead by the animations sometimes.