This is the weekend edition of TheMarioBlog and will be updated as needed. The next blog post is Monday, March 4.
As I write a complete segment about story structures for my book, The Story, I am revisiting certain stories that represent the best of what creative editors and designers can do to bring stories to us in a highly visual manner.
In each of these three examples from The New York Times, there is the element of cinematography that engages us from the start.
Take a look at this one about the collapse of a bridge in Genoa, Italy
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/06/world/europe/genoa-italy-bridge.html
This one is a photo essay done as a breaking news report:
Here is a story about NASA’s Rover :
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/13/science/opportunity-rover-mars-map.html
The importance of that first screen
One of the reasons these stories work so well for mobile consumption is that the first screen immediately provides motion. Sometimes a silent gif element is all we need to entice us to read further. We see how that works in each of these examples.
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