I’m bored with SoundSlides
OK, maybe that’s an overstatement. There are still some good ones out there every once in a while. But audio slideshows have always felt sort of like poor man’s video to me, trying to create movement and energy out of something static. Now that video tools are so cheap and ubiquitous, and the delivery so easy, why not just use video?
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02 Jan 2007 Michael
[...] Michael Bazeley is bored with SoundSlides. I tend to agree. I’ve never been a big fan of audio slideshows (not as most commonly produced, which is as a collection of static photos with music or voice over). [...]
Michael -
Well, interesting thought - perhaps I could say I am bored of video because so much of it (broadcast and online) is mediocre as well?
There are a number of reasons both techniques (audio slideshows and video) are valuable. For Soundslides one obvious strength is that newspapers have built-in expertise taking photos and performing interviews. Both are talents easily leveraged into an audio slideshow.
Video can be a great medium to work in, but it has a much steeper learning curve, can be much more expensive and time consuming to produce and publish, and it is not always the best way to tell a story.
When assigning multimedia we always debate which way to go: video or Soundslides? Sometimes it is an easy call, sometimes not, hopefully we get it right most of the time.
Cheers
Yes. I’m bored with 48 pt sans serif headlines as well. And then there’s audio - so 1920s. Why tell a compelling story on, say, NPR, when there’s video available?
Can you get me a SoundSlide of that…
Just like people use Xerox for photocopies and Google for search, people are using SoundSlides to describe an audio photo slide show. Joe Weiss’s software to create audio slide shows is that ubiquitous for Flash audio photo slide shows –……
Actually, Bryan, the NPR reference is apt, because like NPR stories, audio slideshows are starting to look and sound the same to me. Just as there is an NPR way of doing radio, newspapers have adopted a like-minded way of producing audio slideshows. So it’s not necessarily the medium I’m opposed to - though I think it’s overused - but the lack of originality around how it’s used.
[...] In the first post Bazley ponders the ubiquity of soundslides. He is bored of dull audio slideshows. In fact he can’t see the point of any of them …audio slideshows have always felt sort of like poor man’s video to me, trying to create movement and energy out of something static. Now that video tools are so cheap and ubiquitous, and the delivery so easy, why not just use video? [...]
If you’re bored with audio slideshows, why don’t you just go watch the 6-o’clock news? There is plenty of video on the tv for you enjoy. I’m not opposed to newspapers adopting video, but they can’t leave behind still photography. I think audio slideshows are a great way to tell a story. It’s definitely a unique medium that newspapers have adopted and shaped.
Adam,
No one is suggesting that newspapers leave behind still photography. What I’m saying is that, from my perspective, audio slideshows are getting a little stale. So be more creative with the medium, and don’t just produce slideshows because you can. Be judicious and smart about the product you put out there. And most definitely don’t just flip off your customers/readers/critics and tell them to go somewhere else if you don’t like what they’re saying. That’s a sure-fire recipe for irrelevance.
Michael
i’m kinda bored with words. anybody else?
[...] I tweaked some sensibilities with my measley one-paragraph post about audio slideshows yesterday, and my longer video post. The comments I received online and off deserve a follow-up. [...]
I am looking for examples of newspaper soundslide shows that have gone viral, are embeddable, or offer easy social bookmarks, or user comments in the the same pane.
Please post up links to some if you have any or if readers of this blog have examples to share in these comments.
If you don’t make your visual content more sticky, shareable and interactive then what does it matter if it’s still frames with voice over or animated still frames with voice over. It is just so much easier to repurpose video assets than a hard (and CLOSED!) container that most newspapers tend to present soundslides in.
you can skin soundslides with any number of controls, to look just like brightcove if you wanted. the key in this thread is that speed and ease are taking precedence over time and taste. soundslides with a touch of video makes for some award winning work, like the pieces coming out of media storm. the medium is the same, just done in video with a touch of interviews. good art is good art, no matter the packaging.
I’m just wondering what improvements should be done when producing Soundslides? Are there some premo examples we should see?
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