Multimedia Storytelling.

What is the class?

Audio, video and pictures, the trifecta of a good radio show, and Multimedia Storytelling runs the gamut of these subjects. The class teaches students how to take great-looking photos, record amazing audio interviews and how to shoot video. Writing, while an important part of Multimedia Storytelling, is only part of the greater picture in this class, as another part of Multimedia Storytelling is incorporating your produced multimedia into articles. Of course, me being a radio host, I got a whole lot more out of this class in terms of the multimedia element.

Role in the history of EAT YOUR MAKEUP.

Going into the class, I was an admittedly decent photographer but had very little experience in audio and video, outside of a class that will be featured later, Intro to Radio. As such, Multimedia Storytelling very much helped to fill in the gaps I needed before I could go on to do EAT YOUR MAKEUP. To have a successful radio show, one needs more than a loud voice and bawdy sense of humor, one also needs to know how to brand and market themselves, and you can't do that with just a generic radio voice and crude jokes every few seconds. That is where what I have learned in Multimedia Storytelling comes into play. From the numerous promo pictures I have set up and taken over the seasons, to the imagery I make sure to include in my pictures, I got a whole lot out of Multimedia Storytelling and perhaps the most important thing I got was how it all ties back into the branding you need. It's only fitting that, years after I took the class, I was invited back to Prof. Jin Yang's Multimedia Storytelling class and got to be interviewed in the very same class I learned a whole lot from.

Gallery of some of my favorite pictures from the class

One of the earliest pictures I have taken in Multimedia Storytelling, this heavily-silouhetted picture of an absinthe spoon was for a photo gallery assignment at the start of the class.

For the same assignment as the absinthe spoon, except this time, the prompt was for a low-light picture. I got creative and shined a nightlight through a bottle of absinthe, creating this picture.

Another picture from the photo gallery assignment, this one is a closeup of a koozie for holding a cold canned drink. This and the absinthe picture received an honorable mention in class, too!

This picture hails from my marching band days (puke) but it was also for a photo slideshow assignment in Multimedia Storytelling, a beautiful picture all things considered.

Finally, we have another picture from an audio slideshow assignment, this being from an interview I did with a bass drum player.