Online: pictures still static, upholstered by audio
Jenkins recalls that initially (and this is still the case in many regions of the world) photographs could hardly be included on news websites, due to impractical dial-up bandwidth. Now, as broadband expands its territory, most news websites have resorted to expansive use of photography.
But expansive as it may be, online news sites still poorly use pictures, which rarely illustrate a whole story.
“The problem with photo galleries, to put it bluntly, is that they are galleries. Even when filled with large, high-resolution photos, they are not very interactive,” says Jenkins.
In other words, online photography not yet been adapted to fit more complex story-telling schemes. “As a storytelling tool, the photo gallery may not be any more effective than a thoughtfully designed print page,” says Jenkins.
One of the solutions lies in the use of audio slideshows. Using these, “a revolution in photography may be at hand,” says Jenkins, thanks to user-friendly tools such as Soundslides, which give the layering and context that still photos lack.
The best thing is, newspapers need little or no special resources to develop audio slideshows: a simple digital audio recorder and software suffice to pump liveliness and story-telling capacity into still pictures.
Source: Poynter Institute through cyberjournalist.net
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