Friday, March 7, 2008
Washington Post and unnarrated news videos
I've been looking for unnarrated news videos lately, like the one's we've seen in class, and The Washington Post seems to be a pretty good source for these specific kinds of videos. The paper's website has a news video section and a documentary video section. In particular, I enjoy the documentary section. The most recently posted documentary video, about a table tennis club, is interesting and completely unnarrated. The more video I watch, the more I really like unnarrated video. Unnarrated video focuses more clearly on the video's subjects, like a photo or straight news story does, and it just seems cooler and more artistic too.
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Taking the reporter out of the reporting makes the video seem more trustworthy to me. You don't have someone standing up telling you the story that they heard from a witness -- instead, you hear the story from the witness. It's like it removes a level of separation between the event and the audience. And getting the audience closer to the actual event seems to be the main purpose of good journalism.
On a side note, if you scroll down the page of videos to page 5, and click on "Raw Video: Press Banished to Bathroom," one of the first people you see on screen is David Burnett. Anybody else see his presentation at the University last year? Good time ... probably better than having to file in the men's restroom on a campaign trail ...
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