Multimedia is hard work

After reading the article Multimedia Storytelling, I now know just how much work goes into telling a story through the use of multimedia.

In this article, Jane Stevens goes over how she went about creating a multimedia story about Dancing Rocks.

There is a long list that a reporter must keep track of and many different elements to go with one story. The reporter must break down the story into many different elements and see what aspects of the story will be best told through text, audio, video, pictures, and graphics. The reporter then has to make a storyboard, do the field work, and then edit and assemble the story. While the finished element is awesome, it is a lot of work for the reporter to go through. The professionals make it look easy. Until I read this article, I did not realize just how much effort goes in to producing a multimedia story.