Slideshow Assignment

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/audioslideshow/2014/mar/20/learn-how-build-table-budget

The first link is to the audio slideshow.

This audio slideshow is about how to build a table using reclaimed or recycled wood.

The audio helps to explain the images in the video, and explains how to do the task of making a table with recycled wood. Without the audio, the images would simply be confusing, but the audio makes thing much clearer and easier to do.

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/slide-show-oldest-place-earth

The second slideshow (the one without sound) is an article I found from The New Yorker. The images show the people of Japan Nagano, who are said to live longer than anyone else in the world (the woman average 87.2 years, while the men average 80.9 years); as these images showed me, their lifestyle is relatively quiet and peaceful, and the food along with their daily practices help to keep them living longer.

Truly interesting stuff. The slideshow was very solid in showing it's points.

http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/

The third link was for the photo gallery / album and was from The Hubble Site showing an expansive collection of images of planets, stars, nebula's etc...

The images show the vast galaxies and stars and so on, as seen from The Hubble telescope. Even without the descriptions and texts that were written about the images, they are still amazing, fascinating, incredible and even scary to look at and think about, showing us tales of the various encounters and sightings that were spotted coming from outside space.

Both the slideshows (audio and non-audio) and the image gallery, serve good enough functions as storytelling tools. The best of the three was the non-audio slideshow as the images were strong enough to tell a tale of the people of Japan, Nagano and their "healthy" lifestyles, and show how they manage to live for so long.

Audio slideshows (such as the one I used) often help as they explain what the images, especially if you have no idea what's going on in the images themselves (such as the images from the table recycling wood article, if you looked at those and had no idea, you'd probably be a little confused).

Both slideshows (audio and non-audio) and photo galleries can both function well as storytelling tools. It all comes down to how they're used, and if any of them are really needed.

Any story that would be better off being explained, would no doubt need audio, while any story that is easy to follow just with images would probably be better off using a photo gallery or a non-audio slideshow.

There is no real difference when it comes to quality overall, as far as I can tell.