Reaction:
I took a look at Waterlife. A multimedia experience that takes a look into the Great Lakes and how it was once the largest source of fresh water in the world and it is now deteriorating with the amount of wildlife that are dying or disappearing and the amount of contamination that is leading to the rise in cancer and birth defects.
The introduction to the whole experience states that information about the lakes and it has soft music playing in the background which helps add mood to the project. It also has the effect of being underwater to help pull in the audience. Once you click in to the project a bunch of small pictures of form to make the shape of a duck. If you click on any picture a quote or fact comes up and it goes in to either a still frame or a video with more information on the picture you clicked on. There is also a navigation bar at the bottom that allows you can click on any new topic. The whole site is full of information; it is interesting to watch and involves a ton of multimedia. It allows the audience to be interactive and it’s a cool experience. It makes you feel like you are there and seeing the Great Lakes through the eyes of the people studying it.
The mood of the project shows just how important the Great Lakes are to the world and how without the Great Lakes fresh water supply things will go down hill. The people that created this whole project did it to push people to fix the problem and save the Great Lakes.
