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FIGURE 1.1 A Video That Educates the Public About a Technical Subject
Source: U.S. Department of Energy, 2012: http://energy.gov/articles/energy-101-concentrating-solar-power.
This screen is from a video produced by the Department of Energy and is intended to educate the general public about the basics of solar energy. Because the document includes narration, still images, video, and animation, creating it required the efforts of many professionals.
The video is meant to be easy to share on social media.
The video takes advantage of our cultural assumptions about color: red suggests heat, blue suggests cold.
The video was designed to accommodate people with disabilities: the viewer can listen to the narration or turn on the subtitles.
The document includes a text-only version that provides a complete transcript of the narration and describes the images.