Week7: Moving Pictures and Sound
(fromWikipedia,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:AdobeFlashCS3OSX.png )
In my own definition, I think flash is text or static words becoming dynamic and may go along with audio track. I check the definition from Wikipedia, it says that “flash refers to both the Adobe Flash Player, and to the Adobe Flash Professional multimedia authoring program. Adobe Flash Professional is used to create content for the Adobe Engagement Platform (such as web applications, games and movies, and content for mobile phones and other embedded devices.” In addition, “the Flash files, traditionally called “Flash movies” or “Flash games”, have a .swf file extension and may be an object of a web page, strictly “played” in a standalone Flash Player, or incorporated into a Projector, a self-executing Flash movie with the .exe extension in Windows. Flash Video files have a .FLV file extension and are utilized from within .swf files.” (From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash ) So now I understand what flash means but how flash applies on journalism and makes it interactive with audiences confuse me. The article “Flash journalism: Professional practice today” by Mindy McAdams integrates many professionals’ sayings but doesn’t obviously explain how implement it. Does it mean audiences could play journal flash anytime they want or make their own journal flash on the homepage? I think it is interesting if audiences could view news via podcast by flash format in order to feel participatory.
Flash has already been applied on journalism, and we can also view some news from Youtube (does it also provide another for audiences to view news with flash format?). However, as an audience, I often see animation in theater. Except the visual feeling, the emotion is heavily revealed from voice over. “Animation has become part of the way we tell stories online. It’s an option we use to give more credibility and reality to the piece,” said Juan Thomassie. Thus, in my personal project, I want to use pictures with audios (voice over by storyteller) to tell their stories and editor (like me) can retrieve information they want to show by dubbing and then reedit. I found a cute French song accompanying with picture to tell puppy love story.
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The advantage that I see to using flash in journalism is that you can quickly modify video, images, audio and text to create a new story. You can also use animation to illustrate maps, charts and all manner of illustrations that cannot be shown with photo images.