IKF World Muay Thai Title

I finally finished a slideshow that has been a month in the making. It is a story about a local Muay Thai kickboxer named Giuseppe DeNatale. It centers around his training in the weeks leading up to his challenge for the IKF World Muay Thai Title and the fight itself. Muay Thai is a form of martial arts that has its roots in (you guessed it) Thailand.

I had a lot of fun making this slideshow, Giuseppe was incredibly open and accommodating. He even had me over to his mom's house for Sunday dinner. His mom's cooking was fabulous, great Italian food, homemade wine and sausage... ummumm good!

Two for one

I produced a couple of soundslides in the last day or so.

I gathered and mixed the audio for one called Yappy Hour, a fundraising event for the Winnipeg Humane Society that one of our columnists covered for the paper.



Then the same night I was asked to put together a slideshow of images from one of our freelance photographers who accompanied a bunch of kids on a one-day trip to Disney World in Florida with Dreams Take Flight Winnipeg.



No audio was gathered from the assignment, so my first 'draft' of the soundslide was silent. I submitted the piece and it was posted the next day.

Also the next day, the photographer submitted more photos that the editors wanted to include in the soundslide, so I went back in. In the process of adding new photos and re-ordering the existing photos, I decided that the piece really needed sound.

So, I had to find something that was free to use off the internet. In the process I discovered something called Creative Commons licencing. From there I was able to find ccmixter.org where you can search for types of music that you are interested in.

I wound up choosing an instrumental guitar song by Andy Sullivan who also happens to be a journalist.

Very cool.