Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Audio Slide Shows, Soundslides,
Final Project Proposals
Jeff Young
jryoung@gmail.com
MulEmedia News of the Week
MulEmedia News of the Week
“There are very few professional photographers
who, right now, are not hurEng,” said Holly
Stuart Hughes, editor of the magazine Photo
District News.
MulEmedia News of the Week
Nine years ago, when Livia Corona was fresh out
of art school, she got assignments from
magazines like Travel and Leisure and Time.
Then, she said, “three forces coincided.”
They were the adverEsing downturn, the
popularity and accessibility of digital
photography, and changes in the stock‐photo
market.
MulEmedia News of the Week
GeSy made a deal with Flickr in 2008, permiWng
GeSy’s photo editors to comb through
customers’ images and strike license
agreements with the amateur photographers.
MulEmedia News of the Week
“The important thing that a photojournalist does is
they know how to tell the story — they know
they’re not there to skew, interpret or bias,” said
Katrin Eismann, chairwoman of the Masters in
Digital Photography program at the School of
Visual Arts in New York. “A photographer can go
to a rally or demonstraEon, and they can make it
look as though 10 people showed up, or 1,000
people showed up, and that’s a big difference. I’m
not sure I’m going to trust an amateur to
understand how important that visual
communicaEon is.”
Slideshow CriEque
A Walk Through Eastern Market
Slideshow CriEque
PreparaEons for My Family’s Seder
Final Project Proposal
Must include:
• Format you plan to use. (video or audio
slideshow)
• Story arc and hook
• Types of people who will appear
• Proposed headline for the piece
• Expected run Eme
Audio Slide Shows
Audio Slide Show Basics
Audio Slide Show Basics
Do’s
• Have a clear relaEonship between images and
narraEon.
Audio Slide Show Basics
Do’s
• Have a clear relaEonship between images and
narraEon.
• Provide context: tell where we are and what is
going on early in slideshow.
Audio Slide Show Basics
Do’s
• Have a clear relaEonship between images and
narraEon.
• Provide context: tell where we are and what is
going on early in slideshow.
• Use capEons to provide addiEonal informaEon
(not just what we can already see).
Audio Slide Show Basics
Don’ts
• Don’t start with someone saying who they are
(“I’m Mary Jones, and I’m a student.”) It’s
boring.
Audio Slide Show Basics
Don’ts
• Don’t start with someone saying who they are
(“I’m Mary Jones, and I’m a student.”) It’s
boring.
• Don’t use ambient sound out of context (don’t
have a car horn blowing when we see no car).
Audio Slide Show Basics
Don’ts
• Don’t start with someone saying who they are
(“I’m Mary Jones, and I’m a student.”) It’s
boring.
• Don’t use ambient sound out of context (don’t
have a car horn blowing when we see no car).
• Don’t combine audio and image in a way that
misleads.
Audio Slide Show Example
Soundslides Demo
Homework
• Tell us about your favorite mulEmedia piece.
Post a link to it to the blog by start of next
class, along with a brief comment telling us
why you chose it.
Homework – Part 2
E‐mail your editor (me) a status update on your
final project.
• Note any research you’ve done, new thoughts
on your plan, etc.