Albino Crow MultiMedia – Jan Sturmann
Quiet, straight forward slide shows. Wonderful images.
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Tackling Life – Virtual photo gallery – sacbee.com
I don’t care what you think of the interface or how ‘flashy’ it might be, BRAVO to them for even attempting, risking, trying, failing, etc. I’m so tired of the same old thing, everybody following the same [...]
Albino Crow MultiMedia – Jan Sturmann
Quiet, straight forward slide shows. Wonderful images.
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Tackling Life – Virtual photo gallery – sacbee.com
I don’t care what you think of the interface or how ‘flashy’ it might be, BRAVO to them for even attempting, risking, trying, failing, etc. I’m so tired of the same old thing, everybody following the same rules of journalistic multimedia presentation. Take a chance every now and then, try something new (or at least new for you), grow, throw caution to the wind, fall on your face! Try a text slide instead of a voice-over or vice versa. Explore your artistic and creative side, there is room for everything and everybody in journalism as long as we keep our standards high and or sense of ethics even higher.
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In the same breath as above, I think these post presentations have a great sense of design and clean presentation.
Colombia’s Coca Battle (washingtonpost.com)
The Invisibly Wounded (washingtonpost.com)
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Blind boxer never lost sight of hope
SOLID, worth your time! Nice images, audio and story.
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TheStar.com – Video Viewer – Haiti
Wonderful music, scoring, pacing, use of text slides, inspiring!
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enjoy!
-r
4 Responses
The Tackling Life piece is very nice indeed for that project. I have seen this concept of design before from one of the flash sites of the year for another photographer. Can’t remember his name now.
I like the pace and text of the Star piece really good.
I have to say though I was kind of disappointed with the Post’s piece on Columbia. The sound is really poor, from a phone interview it sounds like. Only my opinion, but i think it takes away from the story. The designs are always nice from them, same with the photos.
I’m with you about about the advancing more in to keeping our minds open into our interface design and GUI. Just need to get compression down pack and I’ll be stoked (hint hint).
Cheers for the 411.
TheStar.com’s piece blew me away. Again.
It’s an amazing work. We’ve got stuff to learn from Canadians not just in terms of national health care system but in multimedia too.
At first I was watching the Haiti slideshow half paying attention – another collection of images put together with little attention to story telling. Oleniuk didn’t even bother to get some nat. sound, for the God’s sake.
But then things came together, pace accelerated and suddenly it all started to make sense.
And watching it the second time was a real treat – it’s like wonderfully crafted poem – slowly drawing us into the world of despair and poverty and then zooming in on single event that reflects the twisted, grim reality.
I think that the site that Ehrin is referring to is Matthew Mahon. http://matthewmahon.com/ I really like the Haiti piece, it’s slow to start, but comes together eventually. If I wasn’t interested in Haiti, I wonder how long I would have watched the piece?
A wonderful smorgasbord of visual storytelling in varied multimedia styles!
“Dotted Line Fever” was more conventional in presentation but the audio, images and pacing kept me hooked all the way through.
Sac Bee’s virtual gallery, “Tackling Life” blew me out the water! Talk about thinking out the box. It was oft-times disorientating navigating my way through it and I don’t know if it’s my aging laptop and connection, but the video was buggin’, playing in fits and starts. However, all of it was worth it and just plain fun! My hats off to the Sac Bee crew.
The Wash Post pieces were also more conventional story-telling but I loved the images and the presentation.
“Blind Boxer” strong images and wonderful audio. Effective use of soundslides.
The Haiti piece by TheStar.com was pretty awesome. It started out slow, like a seduction, then it grabs you by the hair roots and drags you through. It made me feel the fear, anguish and chaos. Very effective use of audio, imagery and pacing!
Thanks for sharing Richard. The very inspiration I needed as I’m working with our photo and online staff to revamp our multimedia presentations here at the Orlando Sentinel.