Interactive Multimedia

Interactive visual storytelling tools are growing rapidly. They make it easier to create unique graphics with very little effort and programming, and are increasingly open sources that are free.

Interactive media gives those journalists that know how to operate web platforms a chance to be creative and it also gives those journalists that know very little about operating web platforms a chance to learn.

The most important thing to keep in mind with interactive visuals is the planning of multimedia. Storyboarding is the most common forms of live motion storytelling, such as film and television, and a well-directed storyboard can lead to a clear and tightly edited information graphic. These same storyboards go into the planning of multimedia projects.

Another place we see interactive visuals is in news and the illustration of maps and diagrams. Diagrams take the audience places that cameras or reporters cannot. They show how something happened or the process of how something happening. Diagrams combine very little text with detailed illustrations to explain the important parts of objects or chronicle a chain of events. Interactive visuals give the audiences a new experience of viewing stories.