it seems that reading these articles was a great way to give us ideas about how to do our final projects. which i am still feeling pretty over my head on what im going to do. anyway...
there are a lot more ways to tell online news than i thought there would be. when i look at news online, it's usually a lot of print plus. my homepage is CNN.com, and they use that form a lot, but there is also quite a few clickable interactives. i really enjoy the videos that they put on to supplement stories.
the two forms that i think i found the most interesting were the slideshow/narrated slideshow and the live chats. i like how the slideshow can be designed to take the viewer through a story in its photos alone with some caption below to explain (or audio if it's narrated). with the live chats i like the idea of raw, uncut footage of a casual conversation.
when the one online article titled "you must be streaming" described how newspapers have taken online video and are making it better than TV news, i disagree. they are both strong in their own forms.
the reason that video is good is because it has possibilities to take the viewer to places that they want to go. the audience is much more in charge of what they're watching. yet this form of finding news can be much more time consuming. with TV news it is possible to find out all the news of the day in a 30-minute broadcast. the viewer may not get as many details as when viewing online, but they get all the titles and facts in an organized, compact form.
i don't really have much to say on the "what journalism can't do" article because i pretty much just disagree with the fact that they say that the media (more specifically journalism) doesn't have an influence on the way that people react to news or situations. it's funny because my mom and i just had a conversation about this the other day (hi mom!) and basically both agree that there is a much bigger influence than is actually realized. really nothing more to say on that subject i guess.
onto thinking about my final project! i'm thinking slideshow?...perhaps with audio...?...or maybe just audio...hmm...
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