City targets Sagewood

A street in San Marcos causes problems for neighborhood and police. Sagewood Trail is a street in San Marcos that contains dozens of rental property where many Texas State students reside. The location of this street and the majority of residents being college students brings about many problems for the city of San Marcos. Continual complaints about noise, crime, traffic, and litter have resulted in police thinking of new ways to take action and deal with these issues.

The San Marcos Daily Record could easily add multimedia components that would allow readers to interact with this story and bring a certain appeal to any story with multimedia features.

The first multimedia component I would add would be a link to an interactive map that allowed readers to click on Sagewood Trail, from within the story, and be taken directly to a map of the city of San Marcos. This would give readers a better perspective of where the street is located and what the local surroundings are. The reader could click on any street in San Marcos and get a closer view of that particular location.

Secondly, I would add video footage of a typical weekend on Sagewood; to give the reader a better idea of what takes place there. I would have footage of how many vehicles are parked near and along the street. I would also film people walking on the street and parties in garages that can easily be seen from the street, and any trash or glass that might be in the road.

The third multimedia component would be three online interviews. I would have quotes in my story from these particular people, and allow their names to be direct links to online footage of their interviews. An online interview with City Manager, Dan O'Leary, Texas State University's Associated Student Government president, Reagan Pugh, and near-by resident to Sagewood Trail, Nancy Moore.

Lastly I would design an interactive game that allowed readers to choose to be either a cop or a student and parade through Sagewood trail battling one another. As a cop, the player would chase disobedient students that were breaking the laws. The cop has many weapens and goal is to capture the unruly student(s). If the player chooses to be a student, they will run from the cops and will be able to throw beer bottles and jump over fences and roofs to escape. Their objective is to escape from the cop and avoid being arrested.