Documentary Practice & Emerging Media

1.-  Guidelines for producing with Shorthand: https://shorthand.com/the-craft/accessible-visual-storytelling/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. 2.- Tools and tips for Shorthand https://docemergingmedia.home.blog/2019/02/13/shorthand-tools/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. 3.- Online assistant (to edit the code of your project) https://ago-assistant.esri.com/ 4.- Audio Tricks and Tips Adding audio to StoryMaps: https://medium.com/story-maps-developers-corner/using-the-html-audio-tag-in-your-story-map-f818d9316252 (Links to an external site.)Links…

The goal of these projects is to map or visualize data in a meaningful way, combining a variety of media, in order to make something more “visible”.  They aim for a fresh perspective, emphasis, deeper truth, and/or specific tone and emotional quality. These projects “map” in terms of geographical, geospatial, social, and political relations.

1) Create a list (spreadsheet or similar) of all the assets in your project, including text, images/maps, video, audio, source (if obtained from somewhere else), etc. Annotate and add columns that make sense to you. Standard categories are: format, duration, topic, location, in/out keywords, etc. 2) Keep the length of individual video clips not longer…

KEYWORD PLACEMENT IS CRITICAL When adding IN/OUT keywords to SNUs, it defeats the purpose to place – for example – an IN keyword at the very end of a SNU. In such cases, the viewer has to wait until the end of the clip before they can choose the next SNU/clip to watch. While such…

In this post, you will find some videos, resources, and tutorials that would help you to produce your first Shorthand exercise. References If you are looking for some inspiration, here are some transmedia pieces created in Shorthand by some media outlets, brands, organizations, and more. Tutorials If you are not familiar with Adobe Audition CC…

Some tools and apps that might be helpful for your assignments and exercises.