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Module Six: Interface Motion
Reading and Writing In Animated Storytelling, Liz Blazer concludes by highlighting the best practices for animating your project. To start, creating a production calendar allows you to understand your goals and stay on track. The calendar should also have deadlines, to add consequences to keep the production on the right track. From there, making sure…
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Module Seven: Advanced Motion
Reading & Writing As the semester comes to a close, we finish off with Animated Storytelling by focusing on how to get your animation seen. Thanks to the internet, your animation can be seen all over the world. However, that also means you are competing with others for the audience’s attention. For a theatrical animation,…
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Visual Storytelling in Data Journalism
While you may not realize it, visual storytelling is an integral part of our lives. To put it simply, visual storytelling is a story primarily told through visuals. In Visual Storytelling, Andrew Losowsky explains visual storytelling as a “combination of emotional reaction and narrative information” (Losowsky 1). From how colors are selected for an advertisement…
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Misleading Audiences Through Visual Storytelling
One of the deadly sins of visual storytelling is misleading your audience with your visuals, especially in the realm of journalism. Misleading visuals can come in a variety of ways, from over-editing a photograph to changing a data visualization to better fit a narrative. In the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics, two major…