Tuesday 19 October 2010

Migraine



When open this news website, you may get frighten by the sudden appearred voice. But after you figure what it is, you may say: Wow, that's interesting! Yes, this is a story with several patient voices and a lot of their images to tell one kind of disease: migraine. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/12/15/health/healthguide/TE_migraine.html

About the format

One of the benefit of online news is you can add multi media as possible as you want, no matter the vedio or the voice tape, most of the online story use image and words which is also most frequently used by the print media, but this story apply a special way to display the topic, it wisely combines image and voice together, each voice is accompanied by several images about the patients. When you use your ears to listen the patients' voice, you can also click on their images and read the relevant words below the images to know more about their situation. Through this way, you can follow well on the contend and attract by this unique way.

About the contend

Besides the special technique used in this story, it is a very smart idea to use the patients' voice to tell the audience what is migraine and how is their real feeling in such a painful condition. Because no one is more eligible to talk about migraine than the paients themselves, they have expericed or are suffering such a painful torture. There are 5 patients talking about their experience under the torture of migraine, every one is different, through their word, audiences can gain a more realistic feeling about their internal heart!

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