Day 5 Multimedia Seminar

Yesterday we had an intro to Flash and the creation of a photo slide show with text, music and video. We then launched fully into producing our multimedia story. We were ambitious and decided we wanted to do our project entirely in Flash.

My team 's story was called "Prof-casting." It's about UC Berkeley's recent effort to provide a number of courses via podcast, free to the public.

Last night we split in to two groups with Tom and Joel working on audio clips and the scripts. Genetta and I worked on the intro Flash. Today we quickly realized that we were too ambitious and needed to scale things back to working on just one of the story segments, "On Campus". That took us all day. We were able to add text, photos, audio files and two video clips. We then had assistance in bringing the segment into the intro Flash movie so that you can click on the link and the "On Campus" segment plays. We also got the "home" link active, but the remaining ones were pipedreams.

To see our finished project (or as finished as we could do in the time we had) you'll go to http://journalism.berkeley.edu/multimedia/projects/ . The link to our project isn't availabe yet, but all of the May 2006 projects will be up soon.

This was a great training experience. I recommend it to any journalist or professor who wants to learn to do multimedia storytelling.

The Knight New Media Center (Formerly Western Knight Center for Specialized Media)