App of the week: 360 Panorama, for 'multilayered storytelling'
An app for iPhone, iPad and Android to take 360 degree panoramas and post them showing the location at which they were taken
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App of the week:
Phones:
iPhone, iPad, Android
Cost:
£0.69
What is it?
An app to take panorama photos
How is it of use to journalists?
Speaking at the Guardian Activate Summit last week, Wall Street Journal social media editor Neal Mann ( @fieldproducer on Twitter) spoke about the potential for the role of "multilayered storytelling" in journalism .
He used the example of how long-form journalism could be accompanied by an additional "layer" of a map showing the location where tweets were posted and photos were taken, as Mann did when sharing updates on a recent trip to Burkina Faso. He also said how journalists are starting to share "background" to the story such as 360 degree panoramas.
If you want to try this out there's a fantastic app for that. Using the 360 app, simply point the camera and your phone will automatically take a series of pictures and stitch them together in real-time. <img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-45911" height="375" src="?cmd=ShowAsset&assetID=43148&nosurround=true&fakeExtension=.jpg" title="360-1" width="250"> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-45913" height="375" src="?cmd=ShowAsset&assetID=43149&nosurround=true&fakeExtension=.jpg" title="360-2" width="250">
The app also allows you to add comments and show the location where the panorama picture was taken.
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Sarah Marshall is VP Audience Strategy at Condé Nast. She leads distribution and channel strategy globally. She is also the former technology editor for Journalism.co.uk (prior to it becoming JournalismUK)
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