(via Seth Gitner's Del.icio.us feed) Train Jumping – A Desperate Journey | Multimedia Presentation by PalmBeachPost.com A must see, for the intro alone! The pacing and tease is fantasic. Incredible images. I am not a fan of voice-over, but for the most part this works. I would have loved to hear less of it [...]
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Train Jumping – A Desperate Journey | Multimedia Presentation by PalmBeachPost.com
A must see, for the intro alone! The pacing and tease is fantasic. Incredible images. I am not a fan of voice-over, but for the most part this works. I would have loved to hear less of it though. Meaning, I don't feel you need voice-over when the images are already doing a fantasic job of describing the scene or situation. Finally I loved the simplicity of the interface, showing how it's about the content, not the packaging. This form of "chaptered" SoundSlides is something everybody asks how to accomplish, so I will post a a .fla source file along with a tutorial on this very subject.
tnxs,
-r
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Great natural sound and excellent work all around! However, I found myself really wanting to spend time with these lovely images without having to listen to the reporter’s distracting voice over which was packed with WAAYY too much information. My idea for a way to make it better–build an “Audio Off” button as a viewing option. After all, isn’t the multimedia experience supposed to be interactive and “viewer” driven? Thoughts?
Thanks for your comments and feedback.
For those that may not see it with the link provided, we offered this full project in both English and Spanish languages:
http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/palmbeachpost/photos/accent/tj/trainjumping.html
I’m really self critical, so I could talk for hours about what we could have done better to improve the web presentation… but sometimes you gotta do what you can do with the time and resources you’re given. :)