I would have to agree with Alix, that before this assignment I didn't have a favorite multimedia project, and I'm not sure that I do now, but I found some that I really like. I looked at a bunch of audio slide shows and this one caught my eye. Motel Manor: Suburban Homelessness in St. Charles County covers a topic that we've all seen news stories of before, but it looks at it differently which is important. I'm not from St. Louis, but what I gathered from the piece is that there's a homeless population in one of the wealthier suburban neighborhoods, which is of course a place that most people probably wouldn't expect to find any homeless people living.
The photos and the narration in this piece work really well together. I think the slide show captured the lives that these families are living and the desperation and struggle that they feel day in and day out. What I think they did particularly well with this slide show was showing different families stories, but I never felt overwhelmed or like I wasn't hearing enough from one family or too much from another. In a very short period of time, I learned about a community rather than a single person or family which is what a lot of the other shows I looked at seemed to focus on.
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