Teenage lifeguards abandon their perches to leathery veterans. The county fair’s bounty of funnel cakes and fried beer peters out. Corduroy shopping starts in earnest. The academic year begins. In honor of those entering the hallowed halls of education, reluctantly or with excitement, we offer these takes on prison, the challenges of teaching and what [...]
Category Archives: images
USA Today’s Joshua Hatch on digital storytelling, Katrina and using technology with “a narrative purpose”
We talked last week by phone with USA Today interactives director Joshua Hatch about “Five Years Later: Hurricane Katrina,” the paper’s attempt to document the recovery and continuing struggles of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. With a prologue and three chapters (Effects, Rebuilding and Unsettled), the project includes maps, interactive visuals, video and bare-bones [...]
USA Today’s Katrina anniversary project: stories from the second line
When clicking across the digital universe, we like new bells and whistles as much as the next Twitter jockey. But with big multimedia projects, we want to feel the bones of the story undergirding the graphs and demographics. So we’re pleased to select USA Today’s “Five Years Later: Hurricane Katrina” as our latest Notable Narrative.
How [...]
Short attention span theater: narrative and models of interaction
by Peggy Nelson |
July 9, 2010
[This post is the second in a series from new media artist Peggy Nelson considering the impact of technology on narrative. Nelson's work includes a barcode narrative, a PowerPoint essay, Twitter novels and a host of exciting new ways of looking at the idea of story. —Ed. ]
No one, it seems, has time to read [...]
What we’re watching: in which we ponder people with scars, the making of sex dolls, a birth in Sierra Leone and the soul of Athens
There has been some debate of late over just how “cinematic” documentary multimedia should be. (See the comments on this Khalid Mohtaseb post on the DSLR News Shooter blog, brought to our attention by Josh Benton at Nieman Lab, and also filmmaker Travis Fox’s response on the same site.) Today, however, we’re taking a look at videos [...]
What we’re watching: in which we consider a New York City shelter, the sound of snow and Rebecca Skloot’s narrative play-by-play
Pictures pack a punch. And so continuing in the tradition of our “What we’re reading” posts, one of the things we’ll be doing here at Nieman Storyboard is a regular roundup called “What we’re watching.”
Bringing together documentary film, interactive visuals, photo galleries and other forms of reported visual narrative in one place may make for [...]
Chad A. Stevens on choosing sides and choosing stories: two approaches to mountaintop removal mining
This spring Leveling Appalachia won a Best of Photojournalism prize from the National Press Photographers Association in the category of documentary film for a website. The story, a look at mountaintop removal mining, ran on Yale Environment 360’s site in 2009, alongside opinion and reported pieces on the same topic.
The film was a side effort from [...]
Pictory’s Laura Miner on curation and storytelling: “I don’t really believe the world is fundamentally different”
Here at Storyboard, we’ve written before on the question of words and captions in relation to photos, so we were intrigued by Pictory, an online photography site that assembles images and narrative captions into a larger story for each issue. We talked this week by phone with Pictory’s editor and designer, San Francisco-based Laura Brunow [...]
