Saturday, May 22, 2010

THE POWER OF THE AUDIO SLIDESHOW

This is a format that hasn't really caught on in Nigeria, but I earnestly hope it will.

Specifically, the power of the audio slideshow in telling certain stories is one way to humanize your stories and ensure it strikes a deeper level of consciousness with the audience. Against a drawback of sorts where text can only describe the circumstances from the eyes of the reporter, the audio slideshow fuses sound and images to allow the viewer make up their impressions of the situation being reported.

The website www.mediastorm.org helps independent journalists tell their stories in the audio slideshow format. One could at least get inspiration from here, but this clip called THE NINTH FLOOR which chronicles years in the lives of drug addicts left me in awe of the power of the audio slideshow and unable to eat...

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