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Flash Journalism: How to Create Multimedia News Packages
This book will assist journalists and Flash developers who are working together to bring video, audio, still photos, and animated graphics together into one complete Web-based package. This book is not just another Flash book because it focuses on the need of journalists to tell an accurate story and provide accurate graphics. This book will illustrate
how to animate graphics such as maps, illustrations, and diagrams using Flash. It will show journalists how to integrate high-quality photos and audio interviews into a complete news package for the Web. Each lesson in the book is followed by a learning summary so that journalists can review the skills they have acquired along the way. In addition, the book's six case studies will allow readers to study the characteristics of news packages created with Flash by journalists and Web developers at The Washington Post, MSNBC.com, and Canadian and European news organizations. It is perfect for photojournalists who want to create or produce online slide shows with audio. A list of keyboard shortcuts for Flash will be included as an appendix. It contains lessons, not reference. This accessible approach for learning Flash MX 2004 illustrates its concepts with concrete examples that make sense. It is in full Color!
Contents:
A New Form of Storytelling; What Flash Brings to Online Media; How to Make Things in Flash: Drawing Tools, Simple Animation, Putting Flash on the Web, Buttons, Making Buttons Do Things, Movie Clips, Working with Photos, Sound, and Text, Building Slideshows with Sound; Case Studies; Afterword: The Future; Appendices: About the Flash Designers, Keyboard Shortcuts for Flash, Reserved Words in ActionScript.
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