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Video Summary for //How the Wolves Changed Rivers//

 * 1) Who created the message? Film for action was the one who created that specific video, and a great job they did indeed.
 * 2) What is the target audience? The target audience is probably people who enjoy wolves (I love wolves!) and just adults that enjoy any type of news.
 * 3) What creative techniques can be used to attract attention? To attract attention, you can have the title be able to reel in as many people as possible. Like if you were applying to little girls or little boys that are into this stuff, you'd say "Cute Wolves save the park!" and maybe have a cute little symbol.
 * 4) How might different people understand a message differently? Different people might think that animals killing one another is a good thing because it makes one spot more beautiful. They might take that as a bad thing because animals risking their lives just for beauty.
 * 5) Why is the message being sent? It's being sent because it's news worthy. I mean, it's really cool that these irrational wolves are saving a national park. That's pretty awesome!
 * 6) Write a summary statement of the science information in the video. The video was all about how wolves saved Yellowstone by eating and scaring the elks out, which brought more animals in. Like, how wolves also ate coyotes, the main predator of the bunnies, so after wolves scared them out, bunnies came. Eventually a ton of animals that are not that harmful started to come down to Yellowstone after their predators started to flee and/or get eaten. But, not just animals was what changed. Also, more trees grew in height and body, and the water flow even changed.

Text Summary //for Has the Reintroduction of Wolves Really Saved Yellowstone?//

 * 1) Who created the message? A website called Popular Science created the text of the assignment.
 * 2) What is the target audience? The target audiences are mainly people who enjoy science and like to listen to the news.
 * 3) What creative techniques can be used to attract attention? To attract attention, they should make the text a little more readable. What I mean is, some people, even adults, want to read something a little lighter in their spare time reading it. So, they don't want to keep looking up what words mean. They don't want to think so much about what it's saying. Maybe you can have an article that's stiff like that for people that are into that stuff, but most people wouldn't want to spend time deciphering it.
 * 4) How might different people understand a message differently? Some people could say that wolves did save Yellowstone by driving out most of the elks, and some people might say that the wolves were mostly useless because the willows didn't necessarily grow back as quick as they had hoped.
 * 5) Why is the message being sent? The message is being sent because they are proving what everyone thought to be true, wrong. So they do not have any false ideas about wolves.
 * 6) Write a summary statement of the science information in the video. Wolves were driven out of Yellowstone park and as a result, the elk population rose.

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 * 1) Who created a message?
 * 2) What is the target audience?
 * 3) What creative techniques can be used to attract attention?
 * 4) How might different people understand a message differently?
 * 5) Why is a message being sent?