Today’s topic: Soundslides. I went back to a previous blog post where I swore to teach myself some cool new things and realizing my failure, set to rectify the situation. I was also moved by the list of things to teach the next crop of journalists and figured I should get to it. So, I picked soundslides, not totally knowing what I was getting into. I managed to create one pretty quickly by using a demo from soundslides.com and looking at a tutorial from Popphoto.com
The first thing I needed to do was pick some photos. Since I was at home working, I selected a crop of photos from graduate school. To up the level of nerdiness, I used a 7:30 newscast from WUIS as the background sound, which featured fellow PAR 2008 grad Jenna Dooley.
Now, I didn’t go crazy and this obviously wasn’t meant for news consumption. But, it was a good way to start and get comfortable with the concept. After I finished the soundslides, I was oh-so-proud of myself, despite the fact that the finished product really wasn’t that fabulous. Feeling nostalgic after looking at all of the pictures, I immediately fired off an email to my grad school chums and tried to send the html file and it won’t open for them. I’m thinking there is something I need to do to the file, but I just don’t know what that is. Note to self: Ask IT guy at work.
