Planning Multimedia

In broadcast journalism, everything is fast paced. You have the morning meeting, the reporter and photographer go out and get the story, bring the tape to the editors, the editor then takes the script and edits the video. From there, the script is passed to the producer and they include the graphics, photos, etc. in the script for the director of the newscast. In Multimedia, there is a different kind of process for planning a story such as the format of the story. Things you would normally have someone else in the newsroom do, you the multimedia journalist can do. You can use interactive pictures and maps in your story, or construct sound slides for photos that you have taken, you can even use audio and photographs to tell stories. The elements that go into planning a multimedia project allow multiple outcomes for more than one story. From one story, you can tell a traditional broadcast story, you can write a traditional newspaper story for the web, and with various multimedia outlets a journalist is no longer limited to traditional journalism, but can think outside of the box with ways to tell a story.