Multimedia Ideas

For my final project I will be writing a 1,200 word print story but will be brainstorming possible multimedia ideas that could be included with my story. One possible idea that I had come up with was to have a video of the communications office at Nationwide Arena with interviews of people in the department to show where Holtmann works and what goes on in the department. Here are a few examples of ideas I could draw ideas on what to possible use or not use with my article.

-This USA Today article does a bad job in my opinion of including multimedia. This article has just one picture included with the article, making it very text heavy and maybe less interesting to the average reader. If I were to use pictures with my story I would use many more pictures than this article and maybe even implement a slide show of pictures.

-This article from ESPN does a much better job of implementing multimedia elements. It contains a couple of pictures, an audio clip of Chicago Blackhawk Patrick Kane on ESPN radio, and a link to a blog of the Blackhawk's beat writer's blog. I could possibly draw from this story by including a link to my subject's Twitter page or a blog about the Blue Jackets.

-Another article from CNN uses both picture and video to spice up their article about the death of a SeaWorld trainer. At the beginning of the article there is a picture of the woman who died and then later on towards the bottom, there are numerous different videos discussing the incident or topics relating to the incident. I could learn from this by using both pictures and video with my story as well. However, I think that the five videos that the CNN article included maybe a little much so I would limit it to one or two.