Flash journalism

Flash allows us to put together audio, video, still pictures and text in a single format and put it out as an integrated file. There’s not much else that really allows us to do that across platforms.
I watched a flash named “To be a doctor”.
(Source: http://www.startribune.com/style/news/specialprojects/doctors/)
The flash tells a story about a group of medical school students learn to be doctors. The flash of gross anatomy in their first year is really impressive. The slideshow combines photos picturing the students’ impression of seeing the bodies and audios of four students’ feelings and views on the anatomy class. When I was watching it, I felt I was in the scene of the class nervously watching the teacher showing the nerves and muscles. But if the story was telling as a video on television, it would not have such compelling impact on audience. Because the form of flash is distinct from video in that flash uses still photos which capture and freeze a single instant in time. It allows audience to have more time to digest the content and emotion and feel the intension in each picture. On the contrary, footages of a video flow so fast that viewers don’t have enough time to digest and feel. I think this is the most important difference between flash and video. And it is also an advantage of flash journalism comparing with broadcast.