Multimedia presentation of the microstories

Nina WančováPrague, 13. 9. 2016

Long text to multimedia form

● 5-9 pages of text● Multimedia form has to be easy to translate to

English● Multimedia form of microstories should trigger

interest and inspire to read the whole stories● Source of inspiration:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/us/year-in-interactive-storytelling.html

Input material● Text of microstories● Stamps and exlibrises● Scans of books

Other

● Pictures of people ● Photographs ● Scans of archival documents

Video

● Slides of visual material with comment or subtitles

● Very popular form of presentation

● More difficult to make and translate (dubbing/subtitles)

Collage of photos with captions

● Easy to make and effective● Enables to show milestones in

people’s lives, history progress of institutions and relationships between events

Infographics

● Increasingly popular● Great way to present content if

we don’t have enough visual material

● Content is easy to remember due to pictograms and colours

Photostory

● Series of photos with comments

● Good form if we have a lot of interesting visual material

● New York Times interactive uses it very often

Slideshow

● Similar to photostory● The comments are next

photo not inside

Conclusion● Microstories are interesting texts but very very long● The reader has to be highly motivated to read them all● Multimedia form of microstories should help to choose which ones to

read

● We need to highlight the main milestones and put them into multimedia presentation

● Multimedia forms are based on pictures. Do we have them????