Today in class we received our assignment for the final project. It's pretty extensive, however I feel like Professor Littau has prepared us for the required pieces. We're putting it all together on a weebly website with accounts that will be given to us from Littau so that he can go in and do some tweakage. The sites will showcase all our stories on one page and will be searchable on the Web and can be accessed by the public.
The first four elements we will be including are required. They consist of one summary story of about 1000 words that serves as the main focus of the page. It'll basically explain what the website is all about and give an overview to our proeject. We also have to include 2 sidebar stories of 400-500 words that will give a more in depth look to an angle to our story. There will be a one tv news style story of 1:30 that serves as a video news version of our summary story, and we'll include a narrated steyle story featuring an audio overlay on the video.
The last elements come from a grab bag. We have to pick three out of four options to include along with the four required pieces. Our choices include: a custom Google map that shows key sites covered in our story, a slideshow of different photos, an auido podcast of raw interview material or a walking trip of key sites in our story using the Gowalla location-based service. No one in my group has an iPhone, so this may be a difficult element to include, however, our topic (which I'll explain in a second), lends itself to this sort of technology. We may have to look into borrowing someone's phone for the day.
We decided on a preliminary topic a few weeks ago and have decided to stick with it. We're doing a an expose on the old Bethlehem Steel property, and taking a closer look at what is being done in terms of the actual real-estate and its economic implications. We have some time to decide where each element will fall into place, however we have ideas stewing.
Stay tuned for more information, as well as a link to our finished project. It should be really neat!
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