Slideshow & Photo Gallery Critiques

Photo Gallery:
This photo gallery serves as a "How to be a good wedding guest" guide.

It uses pictures to show what it is describing, and captions to explain it.

For example, one picture was of guests seated at the ceremony, and the caption is "Make sure you arrive on time so you don't walk in after the bride."

These tools worked well to make the gallery have a good storytelling technique. From start to finish, you are told the 'story' of how to achieve being a good wedding guest.

I believe it does a decent job compared to other slideshows and photo galleries because it has an easy to follow, coherent story.

There is no audio, and I think it did not make much of a difference, and the overall 'story' was just as good.

Slideshow 1:
This slideshow serves as a journey through the Bristol International Balloon Festival.

It uses pictures to show the balloons, the people, the filling process, the balloons in the air, and the landing process.

This slideshow had audio. A woman narrated some of the slideshow to tell the watcher what was going on, and it used natural sound clips from the festival.

These tools worked really well because you visually got a good sense about what goes on at the festival, and the audio tells you what is going on and what the festival is about, using natural sound that actually tells the story and makes you feel like you are there.

I think this did a very good job, maybe better than many slideshows because of its integration of narration, natural sound, and pictures.

Slideshow 2:
This slideshow serves to show the different women of Woody Allen's films.

It uses only pictures to show the different women that he worked with.

The slideshow did not have audio or captions.

These tools worked well, showing a very simplistic slideshow, while still telling the story of the women he worked with. I think that it tells everything it needs to with just the photos, which is the ultimate job of the photographer-to be able to tell the story using the picture alone.

I think compared to the photo gallery and first slideshow, it worked very well.