Vanity Fair’s excellent, basic multimedia 9/11 report
Steve Safran August 3rd, 2006
Vanity Fair’s report on the NORAD recordings from 9/11 is a simple and elegant integration of audio and writing. The reporter, Michael Bronner, pored through 30 hours of the recordings when he was doing research for his work as associate producer on the movie “United 93.” He then wrote the report for Vanity Fair. The online version takes reporting one simple step further: it integrates the audio with the transcripts. The result is more immediate and far more compelling. Multimedia doesn’t have to be complex and Flash-intensive; it can be as simple as incorporating the material you already have into your work. (via Buzzmachine)
4 Comments Add your own
1. Chris Krewson | August 3rd, 2006 at 8:32 pm
couldn’t agree more. found myself riveted by this absolutely amazing story — clicking on the very simple “play” link and loving the lack of load time, the lack of a popup window… there were a lot of ways to screw this up. The VF team avoided ‘em. Nicely done.
2. Eric | August 3rd, 2006 at 11:12 pm
Amen to this. Too many sites taking a splash into the “multimedia” journalism presentation world end up with nothing but unnavigable bloat.
3. anonymous proxy&hellip | December 18th, 2006 at 11:45 am
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4. Sam | January 18th, 2008 at 7:37 am
Wow, thanks for the excellent information!
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