{"id":119,"date":"2011-10-31T11:51:14","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T11:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jackspeer.net\/wordpress\/?p=119"},"modified":"2011-11-29T05:00:53","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T05:00:53","slug":"slate-using-sound-to-scary-effect-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackspeer.net\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"Slate- Uses Sound to Scary Effect #4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had lots of negative things to say about<em><strong>\u00a0Slate\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>lately,\u00a0so this time I&#8217;ve got some positive comments about the publication. <em><strong>Slate<\/strong><\/em> is making good use of many of the multimedia tools that make online journalism vastly different from other forms of media.<\/p>\n<p>In an interesting twist, that includes audio, which was the focal point of a piece I read this week entitled &#8221;\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/arts\/culturebox\/2011\/10\/radio_horror_revival_larry_fessenden_s_tales_from_beyond_the_pal.html\">Close Your Ears!, The new radio horror proves that listening to a gory scene can be more terrifying than watching it<\/a><\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jackspeer.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Close-your-ears.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Close your ears\" src=\"http:\/\/jackspeer.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Close-your-ears-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The story combines traditional\u00a0<em><strong>Slate\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>style copy but includes bits of audio from a new radio drama series being produced by New York city horror film director Larry Fessenden.The dramas feature character actors like Ron Perlman and Vincent Di&#8217;Onofrio to produce what are essentially old time radio dramas, but with more modern production techniques.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t particularly like the way they have the audio set up.The author uses weird audio buttons to give you access to various programs and it&#8217;s hard to tell which one you are looking at. However, it does let you listen to snippets of the programs.<a href=\"http:\/\/jackspeer.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Slider.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Slider\" src=\"http:\/\/jackspeer.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Slider-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"467\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Still, it is more interesting visually than some of\u00a0<em><strong>Slate&#8217;s<\/strong><\/em> other offerings. As I have noted in the past I also enjoy some of the video that this site does and I love the photo galleries. This is the kind of thing that\u00a0<em><strong>Slate\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>does very well.<\/p>\n<p>On<em><strong>\u00a0Slate&#8217;s\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>front page I also continue to really like the juxtaposition of text and photos. While it can sometimes look a bit &#8220;busy&#8221;, I really think it is different from anything else out there.I\u00a0 think the magazine might look at something different than its current 3 column layout, but layout is for another post!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had lots of negative things to say about\u00a0Slate\u00a0lately,\u00a0so this time I&#8217;ve got some positive comments about the publication. 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