Course Overview
- Title:
- Five Steps to Multimedia Storytelling
- Type:
- Self-Directed Course
- Time Estimate:
- This course takes about one to two hours to complete.
About Self-Directed Courses
In a self-directed course, you can start and stop whenever you like, progressing entirely at your own pace and going back as many times as you want to review the material.
Want to spread your wings beyond print reporting, but don’t know where to start? In this course, you’ll learn the basic steps of telling your story with multimedia. You’ll discover ways to map out your story before you head out to do your reporting. And you’ll learn when to use such tools as audio, video and graphics.
What Will I Learn:
Upon completing this course, you will be able to:
- Identify the elements in a multimedia story
- Understand which stories are more suitable for multimedia
- Sketch a concept for a story
- Identify tools needed to gather content in the field
Who should take this course:
Anyone who wants to learn how to tell a story in a multimedia format.
Course Instructor:
Jane Stevens
Jane Stevens became director of online strategies at The World Company in Lawrence, Kan., after completing a nine-month fellowship at the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri in Columbia.
Training Partner:
Knight Digital Media Center
The Knight Digital Media Center is a partnership of the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
Technical Requirements:
For this course you will need to have at least version 7.0 of the Flash plugin installed. For the best experience, we suggest that:
- PC users use Internet Explorer or Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox
- Mac users use Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox or Safari
- You set your monitor resolution to 1024 x 768 or higher
- You use a high-speed connection