A new vision of news: Slideshow

This was first time when I was late for my class as I was at my internship. The moment I entered the class I could see a slideshow running on the screen and it didn’t take me much time to understand that what it was about because I did my studies before.

It was a new way of journalism through slideshow. It might have not been new for many of the other people present there but for me it was new because I have worked in print media and in my country we don’t have such things yet.

 When I got back home and went through slideshow news I found it very interesting and I am sure when I will get back home I will do this for sure for my newspaper as it makes the news very interesting.

It’s not important that the slideshow should have audio embedded with it. The pictures should be strong enough to speak for it.

Out of all the slideshows that I went through I found this one the most appealing one:

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/1-in-8-million/#/joseph_cotton

This slideshow was created by The New York Times, in 2009 about lovely relation that a grandpa shares with his four grandchildren.  It gives an element of news story: universality and timeliness.

The slideshow shows that how a grandpa is babysitting his grandchildren and helping them in shaping their view of the world. He let them go near the nature and feel it within them rather than keeping them at home . He let them listen the crushing sound of the leaves and smell the dews around them and feel the fresh breath so they know that how beautiful this world it.

If we go between the lines then we can see that how the photographer is trying to tell us this thing that in this world of hi-technology we are so much lost in all hi-tech things that we forget to show our children the beauty of nature, the gift of God. This world is really beautiful if we get out of our house and don’t use human resources in fact use the natural resources to explore it.

Although the pictures are not colorful but still they look so beautiful and full of emotions that at some point I could literally hear and smell the leaves.

The narration makes the pictures more alive because at some point the pictures shows something but the narrator let us know that what it is. Like for example if we were not told by him that these are his grandchildren I could have never judged it myself.