WKU multimedia samples
January 8th, 2007 by Bryan
Western Kentucky is known for great photojournalism. Their student newspaper consistently wins awards. During the fall semester, they featured multimedia projects on a separate site: VisualVoice. They were using video, still photos and audio interviews early, as in this example from the WKU-Georgia football game, and this mud volleyball package. They also have some Soundslides efforts, so you can spend some time on the page and get some ideas.
One thing I would suggest is that, when you’re doing multimedia, spend a few seconds at the beginning of the package on a title - an intro slide, if you will - that gives some kind of sense of what it’s all about, as the Herald staffers did with this later package on college drinking. You can be creative with this - put the title over a photo in Photoshop, for instance.
UPDATE: be sure and check out Mindy McAdams’ comment for a link to a psd file that can be used as a title slide for Soundslides.
January 8th, 2007 at 9:33 am
Students or anyone can copy the two PSD files here (from my fall course) and use them as a title screen and credits screen in Soundslides:
www.macloo.com/syllabi/write/assignments/project4.htm
Note that these are 600 x 450 (pixels, width x height). If your Soundslides is larger than that in EITHER dimension, then change the CANVAS SIZE in Photoshop.
All you need to do to add a title screen or credits screen in Soundslides is to save it as a JPG (at the right size — so the text does not get blurry!) and import it just as you do with your photos.