ABSTRACT

This book will assist journalists and Flash developers who are working together to bring video, audio, still photos, and animated graphics together into one complete Web-based package.

This book is not just another Flash book because it focuses on the need of journalists to tell an accurate story and provide accurate graphics. This book will illustrate how to animate graphics such as maps, illustrations, and diagrams using Flash. It will show journalists how to integrate high-quality photos and audio interviews into a complete news package for the Web.

Each lesson in the book is followed by a learning summary so that journalists can review the skills they have acquired along the way. In addition, the book's six case studies will allow readers to study the characteristics of news packages created with Flash by journalists and Web developers at The Washington Post, MSNBC.com, and Canadian and European news organizations.

part |41 pages

Why Flash Journalism?

part |254 pages

How to Make Things in Flash

chapter |13 pages

Drawing Tools

chapter |14 pages

Simple Animation

chapter |15 pages

Putting Flash Online

chapter |10 pages

Buttons

chapter |18 pages

Making Buttons Do Things

chapter |27 pages

Movie Clips

chapter |42 pages

Working with Photos

chapter |34 pages

Working with Sound

chapter |30 pages

Working with Text

part |161 pages

Case Studies

chapter |22 pages

Star Tribune Slideshow Tool

chapter |23 pages

CBC Radio 3

chapter |23 pages

Agence France-Presse

Tour de France

chapter |5 pages

Afterword: The Future

chapter |13 pages

About the Flash Journalists