iReport

CNN's iReport is a website that allows you the viewer to post your news and your media on there site. However I like the idea but the practicality of the idea is a different story. Going through the website I found some good pieces but then I also found a lot of stuff that is just not news. People posting halloween pictures and other things that people have created that have no real news worthy value. I think the site could be better if they had better filtering on content that people were allowed to post.

Audio Slide Show Project

My idea for an audio slide show is to take old pictures from campus and show how the campus has changed over the years including recent changes as well as upcoming changes to the campus. I will interview people to get there opinions on the changes that have been made. I will visually show the changes with pictures of before and after with cross fades that presents and lets the viewr see the changes that the have been made tot he campus.

Slide Show

Slide Show

The first slide show I found was one of girls soccer on the Caledonia Record Website. The thing is it had nice pictures but not much else there was no audio and no story attached it was just a slide show of pictures. However it seemed as they cared more about selling the pictures than the actual story behind them. However I did find they'd take one or two pictures and use them in stories on other parts of the website. As well they had quite a substantial record of photos slide shows so you can see and look through old photos right on the website.

The second one that had audio was The Miami Herald in Haiti. Its a pretty powerful piece some of the images associated are strong pictures of death and destruction cause to haiti. The underlying audio as well gives it a stronger emotional pull as well. The person reading the story does a very low and serious voice that contributes greatly to the piece because it provides powerful imagery with a good audio story to really make a good slide show news presentation.