Audio slideshows
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An audio slideshow combines still photographs with audio recordings and can be viewed online or on mobile devices. It originated as news outlets looked for more dynamic ways to present online content beyond just text. Audio slideshows allow unseen photos to be shared while telling stories in new ways. They come in different formats like news packages using still images like a TV news story. Creating effective audio slideshows involves ensuring both visual and audio elements advance the story in an engaging manner.
Audio slideshows
- 1. By Mark Grabowski www.markgrabowski.com Online Journalism
- 2. What’s an audio slideshow? • A combination of still photography and audio recordings. • This content is posted to the internet and is viewable through a web browser or on mobile devices. • It’s also known as “soundslides”
- 3. Some history • Online news was initially static. Mainstream media outlets simply posted content from their traditional mediums online. • Start-ups and non-traditional media began offering news types of coverage and updated their sites round the clock. • The news media realized they needed more dynamic website content to compete.
- 4. Some history • One new offering was audio slideshows. • Photojournalists often take hundreds of photos and only one gets used in the newspaper. • This was a way to put that unseen content to use and also a way to tells stories in ways that weren’t possible in the newspaper.
- 5. • In 2005, interactive producer Joe Weiss and instructors at Western Kentucky University created a software program that had a short learning curve and could make quick audio slideshows.
- 6. Types of audio slideshow presentations • The audio slideshow medium lends itself to a lot of experimentation with storytelling form. – News stories – Events – Features (profiles)
- 7. TV news package • This type of slideshow is just like a TV news video story, except the images are stills. • These are popular on websites for in mainstream media outlets.
- 14. News • The event speaks for itself: Audio from the scene provides the soundtrack with images laid over it. This approach works even better if the sound and images are presented with some kind of narrative thread (e.g., a beginning, middle and end). – https://youtu.be/U54Vga0HYIs
- 15. Events • 1 subject, 1 experience: Tell the story of an event through the eyes of one person. Hear that person’s voice narrating. This can also be achieved by going back afterward and having the subject talk about what is in the photos. – http://archive.theithacan.org/25235
- 16. Sports • Multiple subjects, 1 experience: Hear from several people involved in a story. This has similarities to a traditional broadcast report except that it lets the people involved do all the talking. • http://media.freep.com/drivingdetroit/assets/feat her.swf
- 17. Features • Profile: A self-narrated story about oneself or one’s experience, or a story about someone as told through others. Paul Fusco, Magnum photographer was aboard the train carrying the coffin of President John F. Kennedy from New York to Washington, D.C and documented the nation’s reaction http://nyti.ms/1TGEdtL
- 18. Keys to a good audio slideshow • The key is that both the sights and sounds involved should be interesting and important to the story. There should be enough visual variety that you will be able to have a collection of strong images to fill the time without the images becoming redundant. • For example, kids playing on a swing may get redundant fast. But a day in the life of kids playing all over, or a day in the life of a park playground might better provide enough visual variety for an entire slideshow.
- 19. Why not just do video? • Sometimes some stories are told better in more limited storytelling forms. For example, print is often best for in-depth investigative reporting. • Video is great for showing things in motion, and sometimes watching the event just as it unfolded is key. Other times, though, it can be more informative to do without a lot of those frames and spend the same 5 to 10 seconds looking at a specific stop- action image from what happened.
- 20. Why not just do video? • Sometimes you can’t always utilize a particular storytelling form or forms. The White House, for example, sometimes restricts video recording or cameras. – http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/16/slideshow.p ope.two/index.html
- 21. Why not just do a photo gallery? • A photo gallery enables the user to click through the photos one by one, and it generally does not contain audio. A photo gallery is good for things like awards ceremony arrival pictures, where users want to stop and stare at each image in their own time, or when the order/timing of the pictures is not important. A photo gallery is also good when the situation does not have good audio possibilities.
- 22. Why not just do a photo gallery? • On the other hand, the sounds of an audio slideshow create a multimedia experience that can transport the viewer into the time and place shown in the images. Audio slideshows are plotted out in a cinematic way, meaning the timing and order of the images and sounds can be adjusted to heighten the effect of the storytelling.
- 24. Provide context • Don’t just post your audio slideshow online, whether it’s YouTube, social media, a blog post or webpage, without some context. • Otherwise, readers will have no idea why they should click play. • Include a title featuring keywords on what your slideshow topic is about. • Include at least a brief description on what the slideshow is about.
- 25. Don’t just post your slideshow online. Include a title and description so readers know why they should click.
- 26. Why we do this? • Learn a worthwhile multimedia storytelling skill • Get wet feet with reporting and video editing • Start building a portfolio • Have fun!
- 27. Also… • There’s a very practical use if you work in journalism • Many newspapers, from small weeklies to the New York Times, use audio slideshows on their websites. • Plus, there are many uses for audio slideshows beyond journalism and our classroom.
- 28. For example • Online class lectures: http://vimeo.com/25025063#at=0 • Sorority/organization slideshow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSuKMiVhqUY • Commencement slideshow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPo-tbUNLXo
- 29. Also • Or you can make audio slideshows for things where you have a lot of photos and want to share them. • Set it to music and it beats flipping through photos. • There are many different types of audio you can use with slideshows : narrator, natural sound, music – or some combination.