visual
storytelling
10 online tools
visual content
+
storytelling
How to tell a story?
Like ... Charlie Hebdo
This is how the (print) media did it...
However, you can also tell an online story like this ...
10 digital tools
that make your online story (visually) stronger
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3. Interactive images
via Genially of Interactive image
*basis = own image or rights-free image
4. animated gifs
a moving story compromised to the essence
*basis = own image or rights-free image
The 2012 Summer Olympics are a giant coming-out party for the animated GIF
NiemanLab by Andrew Phelps
Liberia spent 15 years
recovering from a brutal war
Then came ebola
Life in Liberia before the epidemic— and today
Perfect loops
Fashion Week GIFs:
Kissing Off Fashion Week
Photo Bursts
Cinemagraphs
Atmospheric imagery
5. simple infographics
via Infogram, easel.ly, piktochart of Genially
7. Interactive maps and infographics
via LocalFocus of datawrapper of Flourish
Assignment
online tools
Experiment with a plug & play tool
* Choose your own degree of difficulty,
but do not make it too easy
* Test the tool (also on WordPress) before you
actually get to work with it
(you may also link if you cannot embed)
* Always work with your own or royalty free images
Existing feature
or new feature
* your choice
Give your journalistic story an online makeover!
* think about how to make your story (visually) stronger?