The document discusses various techniques for effective storyboarding and slide show creation, including considering the narrative and subjects of the story, taking relevant photographs and interviews, and basic composition principles like rule of thirds, simplicity, natural frames, patterns, leading lines, shapes, contrast, shadows, perspective, and reflections. It also provides guidance on writing informative captions that include who, what, where, when, why and other relevant details in 3 sentences or less without assumptions.

1. STORYBOARDING
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2. STORYBOARDING
What is a story?
What is the best way to tell the story?
Text, audio, video, pictures, maps, interactive graphics
Elements compliment one another
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3. STORYBOARDING
Not every story is appropriate for multimedia format
Examples?
Appropriate stories are multidimensional
Think about entry point of your stories
how people are lured into the story?
Text? Video? Photo?
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4. PRODUCING A GREAT
SLIDE SHOW
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5. SLIDE SHOW
Have a story in mind (narrative)
What are the subjects of your story?
What photographs would represent the atmosphere of the
event?
Take pictures. Interview. Take pictures again.
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6. BASIC PHOTO
COMPOSITION
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7. CREATIVITY
http://cellularobscura.blogspot.com/
It is NOT about expensive equipment
It is about creativity and desire to see things differently
Shawn Rocco, staff photographer for NC News &
Observer
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8. PICTURES
What pictures do better than words?
What stories can be told only with pictures?
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9. RULE OF THIRDS
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10. SIMPLICITY
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11. NATURAL FRAME
Les Bessant/Flickr
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12. PATTERNS AND
REPETITIONS
yeraze/Flickr
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13. LEADING LINES
hubertk/Flickr
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14. SHAPES
Amodiovalerio Verde/Flickr
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15. CONTRAST
Leo Chimaera/Flickr
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16. SHADOWS
cobalt123/Flickr
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17. PERSPECTIVE
Joel Bedford/Flickr
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18. REFLECTIONS
mikebaird/Flickr
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19. WRITING CAPTIONS
Combining text and pictures
Text provides information that a photo cannot give
persons and things
background info
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20. WRITING CAPTIONS
WHO
WHAT
WHERE
WHEN
WHY
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21. WRITING CAPTIONS
Short but informative
FIRST and LAST name
Three or less
GRADE, YEAR or JOB TITLE
What is happening? (ask)
What the person is doing? (ask)
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22. WRITING CAPTIONS
Where the photo is taken?
Be specific
When the photo is taken? (if relevant)
Be specific
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23. WRITING CAPTIONS
Avoid obvious statements
if it is obvious, you do not need captions
Do not assume anything. State facts!
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24. WRITING CAPTIONS
If going with audio
make sure it is clear who is talking
audio and pictures should be relevant
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