Download - Multimedia Storytelling
Multimedia storytelling
Steve Buttry, Gazette CommunicationsAmerican Copy Editors Society
May 1, [email protected]
@stevebuttry on Twitter
Slides
This presentation (and others on ethics, Twitter, liveblogging): slideshare.net/stevebuttry
More training materials on my blog:stevebuttry.wordpress.comOr at notrain-nogain.org
What tools, techniques and elements would you useto tell this story (or any
disaster in your community)?
What tools, techniques and elements would you useto tell a story your staff is
working on?
Start using these storytelling tools• Interactive databases• Interactive maps• Breaking news alerts• Liveblogging • Video, including webcams• Slideshows, photo galleries• Flash multimedia stories• Crowdsourcing, user contributions• Social networks (Flickr, Twitter, Facebook …)
Questions to ask about a story
• Should you file immediately for digital audiences?
• What are the multimedia elements of your story?
• How can you make the story interactive?• What links will provide greater depth?• Should you tell this story in an alternate form?
Digital stories are visual
• Use photos and photo galleries• Use audio slideshows• Use video • Use Flash multimedia stories
Digital news is immediate
• Liveblog as the story happens• Report live with webcasts and webcams• Report immediately with Twitter• Update developments• Text alerts
Digital stories are personal
• Use interactive maps• Use interactive databases• Ask users to tell their stories• Use social networks
Digital stories are visual
• Use photos and photo galleries
Digital stories are visual
• Use photos and photo galleries• Use audio slideshows
Digital stories are visual
• Use photos and photo galleries• Use audio slideshows• Use video
Use a variety of video• Quick news video
Use a variety of video• Quick news video• Polished feature video• Video in a story
Use a variety of video• Quick news video• Polished feature video• Video in a story• Webcams• Live webcast• Studio or newsroom webcast• Acquired videos (security or home video)
Use a variety of video• Quick news video• Polished feature video• Video in a story• Webcams• Live webcast• Studio or newsroom webcast• Acquired videos (security or home video)• User-submitted video• Link to video from other sources
Digital stories are visual
• Use photos and photo galleries• Use audio slideshows• Use video• Use Flash multimedia stories
Digital news is immediate
• Liveblog as the story happens• Report live with webcasts and webcams• Report immediately with Twitter• Update developments• Text alerts
Digital stories are personal
• Use interactive maps
Digital stories are personal
• Use interactive maps• Use interactive databases
Digital stories are personal
• Use interactive maps• Use interactive databases• Ask users to tell their stories
Ways to involve audience
• Involve participants in your reporting.• Involve participants in telling the story.• Help participants to personalize the story.• Engage participants in the continuation of the
story.
Digital stories are personal
• Use interactive databases• Use interactive maps• Ask users to tell their stories• Use social networks
Digital stories are personal
• Use interactive databases• Use interactive maps• Ask users to tell their stories• Use social networks• Move beyond linear story form controlled by
the writer
For more on Gazette innovation
• Blueprint for Complete Community Connection at stevebuttry.wordpress.com
• Twitter, liveblogging tips also on blog• API ethics seminar: Upholding &
Updating Ethical Standards; subsidized seminars for newsrooms, press associations, journalism orgs
