Multimedia stories

Salt Lake City’s homeless Youth:
This story is told perfectly because it has a somber but hopeful tone. The beginning of the story has pictures of some of the interviewed youth along with their voices as their picture comes up. The story has pictures along with sound bites of the people being interviewed. There are pictures while we hear their voices.

Life Lessons: loosing a leg to a drunk driver:

I liked the story but I did not like all the different ways it was told on the page. There was too much going on and I got annoyed after the 2nd form of telling the story. There were picture, his voice, online story, and a video story. It would be nice if they stuck to one or two ways to tell the story. I would like it if they had the online story with his voice and the slideshow. The other forms of telling the story were unnecessary.

Obama’s People:

This was a good story explaining who are in the president’s cabinet. It was easy to navigate and every picture had an explanation of what the person did. I liked how the photographers talked about their experiences interviewing the people in the pictures because it made it more personal.

Melissa Dixson: The Urban Taxidermist:

This was a good story well told. Whatever the lady said there was a picture that went with what she was talking about. The pictures were in black and white and this gave a tone that that went with death. She was talking about stuffing dead animals so it had a somber tone and the pictures even her tone of voice portrayed this.

Marc Tremitiere: The baby deliverer:

This was one of my favorite ones because you already know that there’s going to be a happy ending. There are pictures of the baby before you know the baby is going to fine. The story enfolds and you want to know how the baby was born. When you find out that the father delivered the baby it makes you happy. The story has a serous tone because its in black and white but its also comes across personal because of the extreme close up pictures.