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Illustrating your Story
Bring your writing to life with supplemental photographs, illustrations, or sounds. Adding multimedia elements to your written journalism can help keep viewers with short attention spans invested and engaged in your story!
Embedding Pictures
Photographs of your characters, the setting, and the central elements of your story can be an essential way of describing objects, places, and people in greater detail than words can accomplish.
Make sure to included relevant and compelling captions with each photo. Every photo must also include the name of the photographer or license holder of the image in parenthesis after the caption.
An detailed explanatory caption. (The photographer/owner’s name)
Art
If no photographs of your story exist or you’d prefer more artistic supplemental visuals for your writing, you might consider drawing your own pictures. Illustrations should be tasteful and represent important elements of your story.
This can also be a good opportunity to illustrate complex or abstract topics such as diagrams of complicated machinery, size comparison charts, or educational depictions of a how a tool is designed to be used.
Embedded Audio
If you have recorded audio of your interviewees, consider embedding short snippets of their interviews within your written story. Select portions of the subject’s interview that are particularly educational, evocative, humorous, or pivotal to your story.
This can be a great way to inject your story with some personality and bring your subjects to life as characters.
This technique can also be used in stories wherein sound itself is the subject. If you’re writing about the migration patterns of a certain kind of bird, why not include a sample of that bird’s call?
