New Media Workshop

We are starting to form Election Day coverage teams. You need to sign up for your preferred time and role.

You should all have accounts on the Hong Kong Stories website.

We will spend the first half of class learning how to do the following:

• Posting on HKStories
• Uploading photos
• Adding and formatting photos in your story
• Slide Shows (without sound)
• Audio in HKStories
• (How to embed your Soundslides project coming soon – meanwhile see the end of this post.)

In our remaining time I will introduce you to Soundslides, and demonstrate the workings behind a simple Soundslides project.

You will get a chance to practice using Soundslides with Jerry next week.

Remember, the New York Times multimedia page has great examples of audio slideshows.

Here is a professional Soundslides project by a journalist working freelance for a local newspaper website in the U.S. Mindy McAdams has more analysis of it here. Other great examples of professional Soundslides stories are here and here.

I suggest you also take a look at the following Soundslides tutorials:

• Photopop Soundslides Tutorial
• Soundslides Tutorial Part 1 by Multimedia Shooter.
• Chaptered SS Tutorial by Multimedia Shooter.