multimedia presentation of the microstories
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Multimedia presentation of the microstories
Nina WančováPrague, 13. 9. 2016
Long text to multimedia form
● 5-9 pages of text● Multimedia form has to be easy to translate to
English● Multimedia form of microstories should trigger
interest and inspire to read the whole stories● Source of inspiration:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/us/year-in-interactive-storytelling.html
Input material● Text of microstories● Stamps and exlibrises● Scans of books
Other
● Pictures of people ● Photographs ● Scans of archival documents
Video
● Slides of visual material with comment or subtitles
● Very popular form of presentation
● More difficult to make and translate (dubbing/subtitles)
Collage of photos with captions
● Easy to make and effective● Enables to show milestones in
people’s lives, history progress of institutions and relationships between events
Infographics
● Increasingly popular● Great way to present content if
we don’t have enough visual material
● Content is easy to remember due to pictograms and colours
Photostory
● Series of photos with comments
● Good form if we have a lot of interesting visual material
● New York Times interactive uses it very often
Slideshow
● Similar to photostory● The comments are next
photo not inside
Conclusion● Microstories are interesting texts but very very long● The reader has to be highly motivated to read them all● Multimedia form of microstories should help to choose which ones to
read
● We need to highlight the main milestones and put them into multimedia presentation
● Multimedia forms are based on pictures. Do we have them????