15
Multimedia production for newspapers Eirik Wallem Fossan | [email protected] | @eirikwfossan | www.aftenposten.no Tools, formats and examples
Multimedia productionfor newspapers
Eirik Wallem Fossan | [email protected] | @eirikwfossan | www.aftenposten.no
Tools, formats and examples
In this presentation
• Multimedia production and limited resources
• The formats of multimedia
• Templates, workflow and tools
Images & audio | Video | Interactive graphics | Features & applications | Future
Audio gathering
• Every reporter should carry a sound recorder
• Enrich bodytext, build larger pieces
• Could lay groundwork for larger piece
Images & audio | Video | Interactive graphics | Features & applications | Future
Audio: NYPD Press conferenceAudio: NY Times
Images, audio and audio slideshows
Audio: tools
• Audio recorder: – Tascam DR07– Olympus LS10– Zoom H4N
• Free audio player: http://soundcloud.com/
• Software:– Audacity– Hindenburg
Images & audio | Video | Interactive graphics | Features & applications | Future
Audio dispatch from AmazonAudio: NYPD Press conference
Audio: NY TimesAudio: Reactions to the Nobel Peace prize
Images, audio and audio slideshows
Audio slideshows
• Production time: 2 hours – 2 days
• Find a strong narrative, avoid analysis
• Theatre of mind
• Heading towards video
Images & audio | Video | Interactive graphics | Features & applications | Future
Audio Slideshow: Haiti aftermathAudio slideshow: NYT
Video as audio slideshow
Images, audio and audio slideshows
Audio slideshows: tips
• Subformats:1. Phone interview with
correspondent + photos from wires
2. Interview with journalist3. Location sound / source
interview
• Tools: Soundslides, Photoshop and audio editor
Images & audio | Video | Interactive graphics | Features & applications | Future
Images, audio and audio slideshows
Audio Slideshow: Haiti aftermathAudio slideshow: NYT
Video as audio slideshow
Panoramas
• Ready made pano player = short production time
• Add audio
• Shoot portraits
Images & audio | Video | Interactive graphics | Features & applications | Future
Panorama: Nordic ski jumping
Images, audio and audio slideshows
Panoramas: Tips
• Full frame fish eye lens• A camera: 5D• Photoshop• PT Gui• Pano player:
– http://flashpanoramas.com/player/
– http://krpano.com/ – http://away3d.com
Images & audio | Video | Interactive graphics | Features & applications | Future
Images, audio and audio slideshows
Panorama: Nordic ski jumpingPano production
Refining breaking news
• Speed, not quality
• Initial dispatch: Email, SMS or Dropbox
• Several short clips, not one linear story (until later)
Images & audio | Video | Interactive graphics | Features & applications | Future
Video
Cellphone videoEyewitness
Summary
Commentary & photographers
• Promote your columnists
• Photographers = photography– Shoot short clips– Train for audio
Images & audio | Video | Interactive graphics | Features & applications | Future
Video
Video in larger projects
• Co-productions
• High quality content keeps users engaged
• Combine with graphics etc. in multimedia features
Images & audio | Video | Interactive graphics | Features & applications | Future
Video
The votersAfghanistan mini-documentaries
Asylum seekers
NYT: Annotated videoNYT: Video graphic
NYT: Interactive video
Interactive graphics and statistics
• Step-by-step navigation: 75 % proceed to next step
• Allow users to find own answers through interaction
• Plan for swift updates
• Combine with crowdsourcing
• Be inspired– Guardian’s Simon Rogers– New York Times’ Amanda Cox
Images & audio | Video | Interactive graphics | Features & applications | Future
Train AccidentTimeline
Guardian timelineNRK: Interactive mapGoogle Maps via XML
The Norwegian pension fund
Multimedia features and applications
• Tools and modules become building blocks
• Allow long lifespan
• Time consuming
• Applications need planning and cooperation
Images & audio | Video | Interactive graphics | Features & applications | Future
GuantanamoVote-o-matic
WikileaksEfficient Flash-coding
The road ahead
• Demand will increase
• Essential for new devices
• Time is on our side
Images & audio | Video | Interactive graphics | Features & applications | Future
NYT: American cleric
Where do you start?
• Educate the organisation
• More multimedia producers close to editorial process
• Develop tools and templates, share code
• Gather audio
• Look for datasets (geography & time)
• Jack of all trades, master of none?: – Journalism, Design and typography,
Photography and photoshop, Audio editing, Video editing, Flash actionscript, JavaScript, Illustration, 3D illustration, Database handling
Eirik Wallem Fossan | [email protected] | @eirikwfossan | www.aftenposten.no
www.ewf.no/media140/mmproduction.pps
