Tuesday 28 October 2008

Digital Storytelling



"A picture paints a thousand words" or so they say, and with digital storytelling the pictures no longer have to sit on the page (or screen) confined to their box - they can fully come alive thanks to film and audio technology.

As journalists working in a multimedia age we have many different ways of telling a story available to us. Adding audio or visual content to a written story or vice versa may enable us to shine light on parts of it that would otherwise be difficult to highlight, or tell it with a new angle that may not have worked previously. And multimedia digital storytelling now provides us with ever more creative ways of presenting our stories.

The challenge for us will now be to decipher which medium is best for telling which story.

1 comment:

glyn said...

Yep, totally agree. There are a lot of options for us, so we need to really look at what we can do and look at the composition of our teams to figure out strengths