Thursday, April 9

Ana's Story - by Allen J. Schaben at the LA Times


BONUS LINK

You should take a took at this TechCrunch article: Who the Hell is Enrolling in J-School Right Now?

Still have to have a storyline

2009 NPPA BOP Judging from Poynter Institute on Vimeo.

Interesting video about the judging of multimedia and video content for the 2009 Best of Photojournalism. Seems as though many people are capturing interesting looking video, but that storyline is lacking making viewers ask "what's this about?"

Still comes back to the storyline and the narrative. A bunch of pretty images and interesting sounds alone don't make for a quality production. The viewer/user still needs to be grabbed and drawn in to the story.

Sound Advice on Productions

If you don't follow Mindy McAdams' blog Teaching Online Journalism, you should.

But mostly you really REALLY should read this post about slideshows.

And if you don't know how to get to a point of putting it all together, take a look at this post on The Digital Journalist - 10 Tips for Dramatically Improving Your Videojournalism Stories

Want to know more about finding a good character to drive your producitons?
Read this from Kathy Strauss