Bryant, Pre-Video Assignment

Haunted by Columbine from The New York Times - Video on Vimeo.

Good: This multimedia project does a very good job with incorporating past news/misc. clips and past audio with present day interviews. The subjects in the interviews are framed well and also have very good lighting. They vary up not only the angle of the interviews but also the type of shot, changing from medium to wide angle (not much close-up in this project, but I feel as if close-ups would be ill fit). They also include good sources with experts and former students and a former principal. The audio playing over pictures and other various clips keeps the overall package engaging and interesting and keeps the audience from getting bored.



Bad: There is strange amounts of zooming in and zooming out and the close shots that the reporter takes are of strange subjects, like the newspaper floating around in the "extreme weather." The person who is being interviewed is also pretty far from the camera and from a microphone, making her hard to hear. The only medium and close shots they present is when they zoom in and out of things -- which after a while is a bit funky.