WMUR News 9 -U local
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U local Hot Shots are advertised on WMUR News 9 (NH’s local news station) and invites viewers from all over the granite state to upload their own personal photos (and videos) to share with others. Some shots are lucky enough to make it onto the newscast but for hundreds of others they remain in slideshow photo albums on the stations website. http://ulocal.wmur.com/
The current featured slideshow on U local's homepage is "Fall Foliage." Viewers are able to simply click a link on the slideshow labeled "add photos" then upload any snapshots they have that exhibit the beautiful sights that the season has to offer. Captions can be added to the slideshow as well.
I feel like each picture has the potential to tell a story, especially with the right caption; for example there is a photo of a football goal post, soccer goal, and scoreboard, with a backdrop of colorful fall trees accompanied by the caption, "Where have all the players gone? -With the changing colors of the leaves comes the end of fall sports...well almost!" This tells a quick story that the fall sports season is about to wrap up due to the signs of the frigid months ahead. However, the next photo in the slideshow is a reflection of a building in a body of water at an apple orchard which doesn't tie in with the sports story at all.
Collectively the slide show doesn't tell one solid story other "than this is what NH looks like in the fall" so I wouldn't say that U local is really suited to tell stories. Its mainly a fun way for locals to feel connected to one another and their news.
Audio Slideshow: Sea Nomads
This audio slideshow piece was about native people who live in Indonesia's Coral Triangle and make a majority of their money off of selling fish. It was about 4 min. long and used narration, photographs, and natural sounds to tell a rather detailed story. In those four short minutes I learned........
-The Coral Triangle is the world's most bio-diverse ecosystem.
-The Bajau people have been living on the sea and fishing in Indonesia's coal reefs for hundreds of years.
-At very early ages the natives are taught to dive into the reefs. However they are not properly trained and many natives suffer death from the bends (the bends is a result of the pressure your body, your blood specifically, endures from diving into great depths. The nitrogen and oxygen that you regularly breathe in gets dissolved into the blood system. Oxygen is okay because it is absorbed by your body's tissues but the dissolved nitrogen is hazardous. Divers must ascend to the surface slowly so their bodies can adjust to the pressure and the nitrogen slowly starts to come out of solution. Rapidly ascending to the surface will cause the nitrogen to come out of solution quickly and forms bubbles. These bubbles can cause heart attacks, strokes, and rupture blood vessels in the lungs...I didn't learn any of that information from the slideshow, I have my high school anatomy class to thank for that bit of knowledge)
-The techniques they have resorted to in catching their fish are harmful to the ecosystem and to the safety of the people.
1) Explosives- They set off explosives in the ocean to kill large numbers of fish and have them float to the surface to easy collect. This destroys a lot of the coral and other aquatic life and is extremely dangerous to the fishermen. The slide show showed a photo of a woman who lost her entire left hand and all the fingers on her right, along with what looked to be some damage to her left eye and cheek.
2) Potassium Cyanide-It makes the fish delirious and easily captured so they can be sold live to keep them fresh. The potassium cyanide is dangerous because it is pulled through the current and kills the coral and other oceanic life.
-They sell the fish to Hong Kong where they are worth much more money than the Bajau people get for them.
-The natives need to be educated on taking proper steps in oceanic conservation to preserve the Coral Triangle.
The slide show was not only informative, it was entertaining. Some great techniques were used to make the photographs and story come alive. Photos that were taken rapidly as a boy swam by with a fish were put in order and changed quickly to give the appearance that the photos were moving and you see the boy drift across the screen. The audio was also matched up well with visuals and the reporter provided natural sound breaks accompanied with visuals that made sense; an example of this would be when he used a photograph of an instrument a native was playing with the sound of the instrument as overlapping audio. There was also a time when the narrator was introducing a woman whose husband had died from the bends. Her photo was shown along with audio of her singing a sad sounding song in her native language. This gave her personality as well as set a sad tone for the fact that her husband passed away.
Photo Gallery
I decided to check out CBS Atlanta's Photo Gallery and clicked on their "Must See Slideshows" (yeah I realize it says slideshow right there in the title but the top of the page says photo gallery sooo I'm gunna let that count)
Anyway, I decided to check out the gallery titled "Moose Stuck In Swimming Pool" Link.
I was able to click through multiple pictures and watch as the process of getting the animal to safety unfolded. There is also a caption under the photos that tells you were the incident took place, Manchester NH, and that the local police, firefighters, and fish and game were all there to lend a hand.
I think this photo gallery does a good job of telling a story. The caption provides me with the who, what, when, and where while the photos show me the 'how'. The crew of servicemen used roped to lead the moose out of the water.
Both slideshows were able to tell a story but clearly the audio slideshow was designed to tell it better. The photo gallery I looked at was also good. It laid out the event that took place in a clear easy to understand manner but sound really does add to the experience. It provides mood and pulls you into the story. We're humans, the more stimulation we can get from our sources the better! A picture may say a thousand words but add a few more to that and you've got yourself a solid story.
The current featured slideshow on U local's homepage is "Fall Foliage." Viewers are able to simply click a link on the slideshow labeled "add photos" then upload any snapshots they have that exhibit the beautiful sights that the season has to offer. Captions can be added to the slideshow as well.
I feel like each picture has the potential to tell a story, especially with the right caption; for example there is a photo of a football goal post, soccer goal, and scoreboard, with a backdrop of colorful fall trees accompanied by the caption, "Where have all the players gone? -With the changing colors of the leaves comes the end of fall sports...well almost!" This tells a quick story that the fall sports season is about to wrap up due to the signs of the frigid months ahead. However, the next photo in the slideshow is a reflection of a building in a body of water at an apple orchard which doesn't tie in with the sports story at all.
Collectively the slide show doesn't tell one solid story other "than this is what NH looks like in the fall" so I wouldn't say that U local is really suited to tell stories. Its mainly a fun way for locals to feel connected to one another and their news.
- BBC News
Audio Slideshow: Sea Nomads
This audio slideshow piece was about native people who live in Indonesia's Coral Triangle and make a majority of their money off of selling fish. It was about 4 min. long and used narration, photographs, and natural sounds to tell a rather detailed story. In those four short minutes I learned........
-The Coral Triangle is the world's most bio-diverse ecosystem.
-The Bajau people have been living on the sea and fishing in Indonesia's coal reefs for hundreds of years.
-At very early ages the natives are taught to dive into the reefs. However they are not properly trained and many natives suffer death from the bends (the bends is a result of the pressure your body, your blood specifically, endures from diving into great depths. The nitrogen and oxygen that you regularly breathe in gets dissolved into the blood system. Oxygen is okay because it is absorbed by your body's tissues but the dissolved nitrogen is hazardous. Divers must ascend to the surface slowly so their bodies can adjust to the pressure and the nitrogen slowly starts to come out of solution. Rapidly ascending to the surface will cause the nitrogen to come out of solution quickly and forms bubbles. These bubbles can cause heart attacks, strokes, and rupture blood vessels in the lungs...I didn't learn any of that information from the slideshow, I have my high school anatomy class to thank for that bit of knowledge)
-The techniques they have resorted to in catching their fish are harmful to the ecosystem and to the safety of the people.
1) Explosives- They set off explosives in the ocean to kill large numbers of fish and have them float to the surface to easy collect. This destroys a lot of the coral and other aquatic life and is extremely dangerous to the fishermen. The slide show showed a photo of a woman who lost her entire left hand and all the fingers on her right, along with what looked to be some damage to her left eye and cheek.
2) Potassium Cyanide-It makes the fish delirious and easily captured so they can be sold live to keep them fresh. The potassium cyanide is dangerous because it is pulled through the current and kills the coral and other oceanic life.
-They sell the fish to Hong Kong where they are worth much more money than the Bajau people get for them.
-The natives need to be educated on taking proper steps in oceanic conservation to preserve the Coral Triangle.
The slide show was not only informative, it was entertaining. Some great techniques were used to make the photographs and story come alive. Photos that were taken rapidly as a boy swam by with a fish were put in order and changed quickly to give the appearance that the photos were moving and you see the boy drift across the screen. The audio was also matched up well with visuals and the reporter provided natural sound breaks accompanied with visuals that made sense; an example of this would be when he used a photograph of an instrument a native was playing with the sound of the instrument as overlapping audio. There was also a time when the narrator was introducing a woman whose husband had died from the bends. Her photo was shown along with audio of her singing a sad sounding song in her native language. This gave her personality as well as set a sad tone for the fact that her husband passed away.
- CBS Atlanta
Photo Gallery
I decided to check out CBS Atlanta's Photo Gallery and clicked on their "Must See Slideshows" (yeah I realize it says slideshow right there in the title but the top of the page says photo gallery sooo I'm gunna let that count)
Anyway, I decided to check out the gallery titled "Moose Stuck In Swimming Pool" Link.
I was able to click through multiple pictures and watch as the process of getting the animal to safety unfolded. There is also a caption under the photos that tells you were the incident took place, Manchester NH, and that the local police, firefighters, and fish and game were all there to lend a hand.
I think this photo gallery does a good job of telling a story. The caption provides me with the who, what, when, and where while the photos show me the 'how'. The crew of servicemen used roped to lead the moose out of the water.
- Final Thoughts
Both slideshows were able to tell a story but clearly the audio slideshow was designed to tell it better. The photo gallery I looked at was also good. It laid out the event that took place in a clear easy to understand manner but sound really does add to the experience. It provides mood and pulls you into the story. We're humans, the more stimulation we can get from our sources the better! A picture may say a thousand words but add a few more to that and you've got yourself a solid story.
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