Blake's Introduction
“Motions” is a piece of digital media created to bring light to an unseen issue. This narrative takes advantage of digital elements to help spread the message of sex trafficking. Hazel Smith, Will Luers, and Roger Dean take the reader on a journey by using stories and statistics to relay information about sex trafficking. The catch is that this story is being told with ‘you’ being the subject adding a personal element ("Motions"). The idea behind making you the subject is that it creates a personal link to the reader. Even though the reader knows this is not a story about themselves, this personal touch can give the reader empathy to the real victim by placing themselves in the victim's situation. This empathy is the way in which the work has decided to go about sharing the narrative of sex trafficking.
In addition to creating empathy, this story uses elements such as sound, images, and motion to invoke a feeling of powerlessness in the reader. In “Motions” all of these elements are layered on top of each other and separated by pages. On each page, it can be difficult to find organization and these elements frequently overlap and are placed in a chaotic manner (Smith, Luers, and Dean). The reader can only control which page to be on and many of the assets are intentionally hard to read, placed in a chaotic manner, and move about the screen almost as if to remind the reader that the story has the power and the reader simply does not have the tools to organize the chaos moving about the screen even if only for a brief moment to read. "Motions" provokes a sensation of powerlessness by integrating textual story with sensuous effects in order to bridge the gap between real experience and textual narrative further empowering the message. There is a true interdependence between all of the generated aspects allowing for a strong message to be portrayed.
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