Invisible Inkling » Soundslides http://ryansholin.com Ryan Sholin on the future of news. And other stuff. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:54:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 2006-2007 ryansholin@gmail.com (Invisible Inkling) ryansholin@gmail.com (Invisible Inkling) posts http://www.ryansholin.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Invisible Inkling » Soundslides http://ryansholin.com 144 144 Ryan Sholin on the future of newspapers, online news and journalism education. Invisible Inkling Invisible Inkling ryansholin@gmail.com no no If you’re not playing, you’re just working. http://ryansholin.com/2008/11/16/if-youre-not-playing-youre-just-working/ http://ryansholin.com/2008/11/16/if-youre-not-playing-youre-just-working/#comments Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:02:34 +0000 Ryan Sholin http://ryansholin.com/?p=1101 Continue reading →]]> Daniel Sato is one of a circle of photojournalists I met at San Jose State University while I was spending a lot of time there working on my (still-but-not-for-long) unfinished graduate degree.

Now that whole crew has spread out from the Bay Area across the country and in at least two cases, into Southeast Asia.

Here’s Daniel’s latest post about his work for a school in Bali.  The looks-like-fun experimental flip book audio slideshow is embedded below as a video:

Click here to view the embedded video.

When was the last time you made journalism that looked like this much fun?

Go out and play…

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]]> http://ryansholin.com/2008/11/16/if-youre-not-playing-youre-just-working/feed/ 1 Make me cry. http://ryansholin.com/2007/11/17/make-me-cry/ http://ryansholin.com/2007/11/17/make-me-cry/#comments Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:47:53 +0000 Ryan Sholin http://www.ryansholin.com/2007/11/17/make-me-cry/ Continue reading →]]> I’ve been repeating versions of this on recent training rounds when folks ask about learning Flash, so I thought I’d post it here for reference and credit purposes…

Richard Koci Hernandez, near the end of a great Starter Kit page at Multimedia Shooter:

“Soundslides or Flash? Put it this way, if you don’t know what Soundslides is, then there’s no need to even think about Flash. And if you haven’t mastered Soundslides (meaning, brought someone to tears with your two minute Soundslide) there there is no reason to be thinking about Flash.”

Download Soundslides here.

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]]> http://ryansholin.com/2007/11/17/make-me-cry/feed/ 1 Brainstorms, in no particular order http://ryansholin.com/2007/10/20/brainstorms/ http://ryansholin.com/2007/10/20/brainstorms/#comments Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:14:24 +0000 Ryan Sholin http://www.ryansholin.com/2007/10/20/brainstorms/ Continue reading →]]> Ideas bubbling to the surface on a sunny Saturday…

  • Has Joe Weiss ever thought about building a hosted Soundslides service, where users could upload their publish-to-web folder and get a friendly piece of embed code spit back out at them? Plus, of course, anyone could browse through any uploaded Soundslides show, and embed it on their own site.
  • I might build out the first iteration of ReportingOn in Drupal, with the intent of learning Drupal.
  • A newspaper’s greatest asset in trying to build community? News stories. Leverage exiting content by tying reader comments to profiles. Reward readers for participation by giving them an easier way to save, tag, and interact with your stories. Thus, the water cooler effect is built not by an editor tagging something as a water cooler story, but by readers proving it directly with conversation.

All three of these ideas need some fleshing out. That’s where you come in.

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]]> http://ryansholin.com/2007/10/20/brainstorms/feed/ 3 Richard Koci Hernandez on being a multimedia shooter http://ryansholin.com/2007/02/05/richard-koci-hernandez-on-being-a-multimedia-shooter/ http://ryansholin.com/2007/02/05/richard-koci-hernandez-on-being-a-multimedia-shooter/#comments Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:54:07 +0000 Ryan Sholin http://www.ryansholin.com/2007/02/05/richard-koci-hernandez-on-being-a-multimedia-shooter/ Continue reading →]]> The second part of Chris Jordan’s interview with Richard Koci Hernandez of the San Jose Mercury News is live at multimediashooter.com:

“The days of the one-talent journalist are over.”
“If I have to watch another three-minute soundslides…my head’s going to explode.”*

Richard gets deep into the shift from working as a solo photojournalist to collaborating with a team of reporters, shooters and editors.

On one hand, a multimedia shooter or producer or editor needs to communicate with the folks in the newsroom they depend on.

Then again, Richard talks about sending a one-man-band to MacWorld, who programmed a Flash stage, shot stills and video, produced the finished product on his own.

What’s the future of multimedia production at newspapers? A guy in the newsroom waiting for reporters and photogs to show up with the content? Reporters cutting their own audio, photogs editing their own video?

It seems like this is working out differently at every paper. What works for you?

*A little context: Richard was talking about using a 30-second soundslides show with just a few pictures as being a strong way to illustrate a story. Go listen to the whole thing.

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]]> http://ryansholin.com/2007/02/05/richard-koci-hernandez-on-being-a-multimedia-shooter/feed/ 0 Joe Weiss talks to Poynter about Soundslides http://ryansholin.com/2007/01/10/joe-weiss-talks-to-poynter-about-soundslides/ http://ryansholin.com/2007/01/10/joe-weiss-talks-to-poynter-about-soundslides/#comments Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:56:47 +0000 Ryan Sholin http://www.ryansholin.com/2007/01/10/joe-weiss-talks-to-poynter-about-soundslides/ Continue reading →]]> Joe Weiss, the photojournalist/programmer behind Soundslides, tells Poynter all about it:

“I think that if you just started to do them, the audio slideshow is gonna take about four or five times what it would have taken just to do the assignment visually. … I think what we’re seeing in the industry right now, is that the people who learn these skills, add these skills to their bag, they’ll get on an assignment where they have more time, or they’ll really listen to the assignment and say, wow, there’s great audio here, this could be a great narrative. Then they jump on those.”

via Andy Dickinson, who has been posting tons of great stuff about working with video at newspapers lately.

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I had a lot of help on this, so don’t give me too much credit/blame. What I could use is some feedback. Check it out here.

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