Multimedia Stories...

Multimedia storytelling is so interesting because there are so many ways to do it. Maybe there is a difference in scope, but the USATODAY.com Award of Excellence story “Johnny Holiday: Finally Acting His Age” was very simple compared to some of the other stories. And by simple I don’t mean simple to do, the photos were beautiful and it was a nice story—but there was only one option, to watch the flash video (I’m guessing flash, I have no idea). I think sometimes multimedia stories try too hard to have too many elements and it seems that you could either overwhelm someone and they won’t know where to go, and potentially you’ll lose people—or people will be so enthralled in the story they’ll stay on the site forever. I think it just depends on the story.