The contest is held annually at North-Caucasus Federal University (NCFU) and is aimed at building up a creative platform where young people present the results of their professional training in the field of multimedia journalism. Students from different parts of Russia participated in it. Chelyabinsk was represented by two leading universities: SUSU and CSU.
The “Virtual Walk through Chelyabinsk during the War Years” multimedia interactive project in the “80th Anniversary of the Victory” category by 2nd-year Master’s degree students Karina Abdrakhmanova and Elizaveta Volosnikova was shortlisted for the contest. The project was implemented under the supervision of Associate Professor of the Department of Journalism, Advertising and Public Relations and Head of the “Newsroom Digital SUSU” Student Media Centre Arina Zaitseva.
The main idea of the project is to show the key architectural buildings of our city during the Great Patriotic War. The project included fascinating facts about how our city had forged the victory. Interactive multimedia elements were added so that the reader could mentally feel the atmosphere of that time. Thanks to the interactive map, the viewer can virtually move to the building of interest and see its location. Each object can be found in more detail in information blocks with visual content in the form of photos, chronicles, and infographics for better perception of information. The main feature of the project are the photographs of buildings that are shown in contrast during the Great Patriotic War and at the present time.
The contest final was held on May 15th. Contestants had to defend their works before the jury remotely in the format of an online conference.
You can learn about the project on the Tilda platform (retrochelyabinsk.tilda.ws) and in the official community of the “Newsroom Digital SUSU” Student Media Centre under the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation in the Chelyabinsk Region based at SUSU.