Thursday, June 11, 2009

A journalistic video example

The video example I watched is a NBC story called Success and the city. In this story, the Mayor of Miami Gardens talks about the efforts they put in battling urban blight. I think the overall story is good. It covers why battling urban blight is necessary for the city and what the mayor and other staff have done to maintain the community. It also has the residents’ responses to the city’s efforts to battle urban blight. If the story could be improved in some way, I think this story should let the residents talk more about how their life changed after all the efforts had been done. The residents’ responses can reflect the city’s success in battling urban blight more truthfully.
If this story had been text only, I think it would have put lots of effort in describing the community’s current environment. While videos can directly tell audience the current situation about the community, text-only stories have to take more time to describe it.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/#31190279

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