Flash Storytelling

A close look at my recent links would reveal a growing interest in the use of Flash to tell stories or support multimedia journalism. It can be incredibly powerful. Try these:

It's probably reasonable to ask if this is what the public wants. But whether it is or not, I'm going down the "teach yourself flash" route to see what happens...

Let me know of others you like.

Comments

[Brendan Miller]

Isn't the web just recovering the clutter of flash-obsessives? The revolution of Web 2.0 was partly about the ascendency of usability over ... well, flashiness.

Having said that I love the Reuters five year anniversary, I just hope website designers keep Flash in its place.

There's more examples on the website:
http://flashjournalism.com/examples/case_studies.htm

[Brendan Miller]

On review that website out of date and full of broken links.

[ourman]

I'm sorry but save me from Flash. I hate it.

You can't link pages because it all runs in together. It's slow.

You can't cut and paste.

So many commerical sites use it and it drives you nuts. See a chair you like in the catalogue and want to send it to the missus at her work - you can't - there's no url link.

You can't bookmark anything other than the main url.

If we want movement then we have YouTube now - a system that we can embed and share if we want to and start and restart as we wish.

The links you provided are all very nice but honestly if I never saw flash on the web again I'd be very happy about it.

[richard s]

Interesting responses. Obviously with Flash, as with anything else, there's good execution and poor execution. And I don't think every web application has to share the same characteristics (eg "linkability") as every other - it depends on your purpose. I just believe as a platform for a particular sort of multimedia or photo journalism and storytelling it can be uniquely effective.