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03.26.2018—6am    Post #6679
Linear visual storytelling is possible almost everywhere

It’s the way we write for mobile devices, in a linear way that emphasizes scrolling to continue reading.

When we use the style of linear visual storytelling, we are creating content to be consumed primarily on a mobile device.

As readers of the blog know, the strategy is to combine text and visual assets together. You read, you see. This is the opposite of how we consume information in print, where we first see, then usually we read.

Part of my presentation for the Society of News Design in New York last weekend was to introduce linear visual storytelling to what was a packed house of editors, designers and technology folks.

At the end of the session, there were questions like these:

 

-“What would it take for us to do this kind of storytelling right now?”, and, “Do we need to have a different version of these stories for mobile and desktop?”

We maintain that it is quite easy even for technologically limited news organizations to try linear visual storytelling. It is a matter of creating templates and coordinating how basic text and images will flow.

Already several of the content management systems that newsrooms use provide the software to create such templates and allow for a journalist and/or visual storyteller to tell compelling stories with the narrative and the visuals in the order in which they would be in a normal text or What’s App chat.

Once a linear storytelling is built, it can be used  for desktop and mobile alike.

Here is a sample template courtesy of CCI Europe and its Cue program:

 

 

Of related interest

 

Visual Storytelling: the Times Aleppo

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/09/world/middleeast/syria-aleppo-war.html?rref=collection%2Fbyline%2Fanne-barnard&action=click&contentCollection=undefined&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=18&pgtype=collection&_r=1

Breaking news Michael Flynn

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/01/us/politics/michael-flynn-guilty-russia-investigation.html?emc=edit_na_20171201&nl=breaking-news&nlid=53831611&ref=cta

Visual Storytelling

http://www.garciamedia.com/blog/the_role_of_wed_in_creating_a_rich_palette_of_visual_storytelling_for_mobil

http://www.garciamedia.com/blog/digital_storytelling_part_one_the_fusion_of_writing_editing_design

http://www.garciamedia.com/blog/digital_storytelling_part_two_a_linear_fusion_of_narrative_imagery

http://www.garciamedia.com/blog/visual_storytelling_innovation_key_to_progress_in_2017

http://www.garciamedia.com/blog/mobile_storytelling_fast_furious_and_simple

 

 

Mario’s Speaking Engagements

April 18-19, 2018-Newscamp ,Augsburg,  Germany.

 

 

 

June 3-6, 2018The Seminar, San Antonio, Texas.

 

 

 

June 7-8WAN-IFRA World Congress, Lisbon, Portugal

 

June 12-14, CUE Days , Aarhus, Denmark

http://www.ccieurope.com/news/6738/Video_What_is_CUE_Days_2018

 

December 6, El Pais Conference, Montevideo, Uruguay

A series of conferences and seminars for El Pais journalists, invited professionals and communications students: The future of journalism.

 

Garcia Media: Over 25 years at your service

TheMarioBlog post #2804

 

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